All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 9 2020 // Sirens screamed. Emergency weather alerts buzzed cellphones. News crews pleaded with people to seek cover.In the aftermath of the massive tornadoes that ripped through Tennessee early Tuesday morning, emergency officials...
Mar 9 2020 // At least six tornadoes hit middle Tennessee during a series of storms last week that killed 24 people and caused massive damage, the National Weather Service in Nashville confirmed Friday.The strongest tornado overnight...
Mar 9 2020 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) has licensed its 200th insurance company, Mattoon Insurance Co., making the state the seventh-largest captive domicile in the U.S., according to a statement from...
Mar 6 2020 // Moments after a tornado tore through his quiet Tennessee neighborhood, Darrell Jennings walked out his front door and heard screaming.The house next door – and many others – had been leveled to its foundations....
Mar 6 2020 // Two mobile units have been deployed to help residents who lost state driver’s licenses or photo identification in severe storms that ravaged Tennessee counties this week.Tennessee’s Department of Safety and...
Mar 5 2020 // Rescuers searched through shattered Tennessee neighborhoods for bodies Tuesday, less than a day after tornadoes ripped across Nashville and other parts of the state as families slept. At least 24 people were killed, some...
Mar 4 2020 // Tornadoes ripped across Tennessee early Tuesday, shredding at least 40 buildings and killing 24 people. One of the twisters caused severe damage across downtown Nashville, destroying the stained glass in a historic church...
Mar 3 2020 // Severe weather and tornadoes have impacted several counties in Tennessee, leaving behind multiple deaths and severe damage in Nashville.Governor Bill Lee has declared a state of emergency after the tornadoes ripped through...
Mar 3 2020 // USI Insurance Services, a provider of risk management, employee benefit and retirement plan consulting, has acquired Franklin, Tenn.-based Full Service Insurance Agency, Inc. Founded in 1975, Full Service Insurance is a...
Feb 28 2020 // The Tennessee Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from pharmaceutical companies asking to be dismissed as defendants in an opioid lawsuit.The suit was filed in Campbell County in 2017 by six Tennessee district...
Feb 21 2020 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) is marking the licensing of its 200th captive insurance company, Mattoon Insurance Co., making the state the seventh-largest captive domicile in the U.S.,...
Feb 20 2020 // A lawsuit has been settled between a Tennessee school district and a former student who was kidnapped by a teacher when she was 15.Tad Cummins sparked a 39-day nationwide manhunt when he fled the state with the former...
Feb 20 2020 // A grand jury in Tennessee said it would support a criminal investigation into claims that a Tennessee Valley Authority contractor failed to protect workers cleaning up a massive coal ash spill, many of whom later fell ill...
Feb 19 2020 // Forecasters expected more heavy rains in parts of the flood-ravaged South on Tuesday, prolonging the misery in neighborhoods surrounded by water.Some of the hardest-hit areas were under a flash flood watch, as the National...
Feb 13 2020 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) has appointed Abbey Dennis as assistant director of Communications & External Affairs.Dennis most recently served as the deputy press secretary to the Federal...
Feb 13 2020 // A Tennessee hillside collapsed, roads were flooded and rivers were rising across the Southeast on Tuesday after a day of heavy rains that once again threatened a Mississippi lake where a dam previously was in danger of...
Feb 10 2020 // A federal judge in Tennessee has awarded a $15 million judgment to a 15-year-old boy who suffered a brain injury at a hospital on the Fort Campbell Army post.The parents of the boy filed a medical malpractice lawsuit in...
Feb 10 2020 // More than 260,000 homes and businesses in the southeastern United States were without power early Friday after a powerful storm raked the region. At least five people were killed.North Carolina had the most customers...
Feb 7 2020 // Openly Inc., an insurtech backed by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture fund, has gone live in Tennessee.The addition of Tennessee comes on the heels of the company’s launch and funding announcement...
Feb 5 2020 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) has promoted Bill Huddleston to TDCI’ s director of the Insurance Division.Huddleston, a longtime Nashville resident, has served in the department since 2014...