All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 30 2016 // Storms roaring across the South appeared to be taking aim at some of the largest wildfires burning across the region, which could finally help firefighters in their efforts to subdue the blazes, authorities said Monday.The...
Nov 30 2016 // The driver in a Chattanooga, Tenn., school bus crash last week that killed six children will likely plead not guilty to related charges, according to his lawyer.Defense attorney Amanda Dunn said she anticipates 24-year-old...
Nov 28 2016 // Students and administrators raised concerns about a Tennessee school bus driver’s behavior behind the wheel in the weeks before a crash that killed six children.Police have charged driver Johnthony Walker with...
Nov 21 2016 // Twenty-three students were hospitalized after a Tennessee school bus crashed and rolled over on an interstate off-ramp Friday, but authorities said none suffered life-threatening injuries.The bus was one of three headed...
Nov 17 2016 // Tennessee health officials have ordered a nursing home to stop taking new residents and pay a $6,100 fine for violations.A Tennessee Department of Health news release Monday says Creekside Health and Rehabilitation in...
Nov 17 2016 // As drought-stressed forests burn across much of the South – including a blaze scorching a Manhattan-sized area of north Georgia – some traditional outdoor activities are now banned.Starting campfires, lighting...
Nov 16 2016 // Thousands of property owners may have to purchase flood insurance for the first time as new flood maps go into effect next year in Davidson County.The Federal Emergency Management Agency last month finalized revised flood...
Nov 14 2016 // Authorities have charged a restaurant owner in Lewis County, Tenn., with setting fire to his business for the insurance money.The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Thursday that Nick Spicer set fire to Nick and...
Nov 14 2016 // Authorities in Clarksville, Tenn., say a 9-year-old boy has been hospitalized after a car he was driving crashed. Media outlets report the accident occurred Sunday morning. Clarksville police said in a statement that the...
Nov 14 2016 // A wannabe weatherman was jailed for arson after admitting he started a wildfire to draw attention to his selfie videos on Facebook, his town’s police chief said Friday. Meanwhile, a Georgia sheriff appealed for help...
Nov 14 2016 // Wildfires near the Georgia-North Carolina line are spewing smoke so thick that residents are being urged to wear special masks if they must do outdoor activities.The fires – many of them suspected arsons – have...
Nov 4 2016 // A Tennessee man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for a series of cyberattacks on businesses, universities and governments. Federal prosecutors in Chicago say 22-year-old Timothy Justen French of...
Oct 28 2016 // An eastern Tennessee-based skilled nursing home chain has reached a $145 million settlement that federal officials called the largest ever of its kind.The U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release Monday that Life...
Oct 26 2016 // Authorities say a 67-year-old Tennessee tourist died after riding Star Tours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.The September death of the Memphis, Tennessee, man was recorded in a list of serious ride-related injuries...
Oct 24 2016 // The National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM) elected Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) Deputy Commissioner Gary West as secretary-treasurer during its annual membership meeting in July....
Oct 20 2016 // Brentwood Services Administrators Inc. (BSA) headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., has hired Zachary Vedros to the position of application developer in the IT Department, according to Jeff Pettus, president and chief...
Oct 6 2016 // Drugged driving has overtaken drunken and distracted driving as a factor in Tennessee traffic fatalities.Citing an analysis of Tennessee Highway Patrol data, The Tennessean reports the number of deaths from crashes with...
Sep 26 2016 // ICW Group Insurance Companies has begun writing workers’ compensation four additional states—Michigan, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia.The San Diego-based company says the move bolsters its presence across the...
Sep 19 2016 // In some parts of the U.S., the thrill rides that hurl kids upside down, whirl them around or send them shooting down slides are checked out by state inspectors before customers climb on. But in other places, they are not...
Sep 16 2016 // Tennessee lawmakers on Wednesday repealed an underage drunken driving law that threatened to cost the state $60 million in road money by running afoul of federal zero-tolerance standards.The Senate passed the measure 31-1,...