All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 20 2010 // Gov. Phil Bredesen says Tennessee will receive a higher percentage of federal matching funds to cover costs due to severe flooding in early May. Bredesen recently announced that the state’s federal match will be 90...
Aug 20 2010 // The rains deluging Tennessee abated on Thursday but forecasters are predicting that the same storm system will bring more rain to the region over weekend.Officials in Nashville are making plans for evacuations and...
Aug 17 2010 // The Tennessee Department of Transportation is working to keep teen drivers safe and will travel to Red Boiling Springs High School in Macon County, Wednesday, August 18 to present “Between the Barrels” to 230...
Aug 12 2010 // Former state senator John Ford could have his federal prison sentence nearly cut in half after a recent Supreme Court decision that weakened an anti-fraud law.The 68-year-old Ford is serving a 19-year sentence. A 2008...
Aug 3 2010 // The Tennessee Department of Safety is opening a new driver service center for reinstatement assistance in Memphis’ Shelby County on Monday. The center at 2516 Mt. Moriah Road is for the reinstatement of driving...
Aug 2 2010 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has concluded its actions during the May floods reduced the Cumberland River’s flood crest in Nashville by 5 feet, but the agency suffered numerous communications problems during the...
Jul 28 2010 // The North Carolina State Highway Patrol says it is seeing a decrease in the number of teen driver fatalities across the state. The patrol said on that it has investigated the deaths of 28 teen drivers so far this year....
Jul 23 2010 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has concluded its actions during the May floods reduced the Cumberland River’s flood crest in Nashville by 5 feet, but the agency suffered numerous communications problems during the...
Jul 20 2010 // A payroll services company that had naming rights to Nashville’s arena gave off signs of financial trouble for several months before FBI agents raided it July 6.Sommet Group of Franklin, Tenn., is embroiled in a...
Jul 12 2010 // Police across Tennessee are writing few citations under the year-old texting-while-driving law.The statute went into effect in July 2009, allowing officers to write tickets to drivers they catch sending cell phone text...
Jul 8 2010 // A Tennessee woman whose terminally-ill husband burned down his house in an attempted suicide is not entitled to collect under policies for the house and autos destroyed in the fire.The Tennessee Court of Appeals has upheld...
Jul 8 2010 // Arkansas Consumers who were scammed by an unlicensed health benefits company called American Trade Association Inc. (ATA) or its affiliates have until Aug. 31, 2010, to pursue a refund of money they paid for this phony...
Jul 8 2010 // Federal agents have raided the office of a Williamson County company with a connection to the Nashville Predators.The Tennessean reports that the FBI, working with the U.S. Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue...
Jul 7 2010 // Far from the spotlight shining on the Nashville victims of May’s deadly floods, Mike Anglin looks at the now-empty space next to Indian Creek where his doublewide mobile home stood and wonders how he will replace...
Jun 30 2010 // New building codes for newly-built one-and two-family residences in Tennessee have taken effect. The provisions are the result of the Tennessee Clean Energy Future Act. The State Fire Marshal Office said its code...
Jun 29 2010 // A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of 64 Perry County, Ala. residents against the companies operating a landfill receiving coal ash from a spill in Tennessee.The lawsuit filed in Perry County Circuit Court is against the...
Jun 29 2010 // Joe Adams has joined Eastern Alliance Insurance Group (EAIG) as a marketing executive in its Tennessee territory.EAIG is a Pennsylvania-based insurance group specializing in workers compensation insurance. Adams will be...
Jun 25 2010 // More than 1,000 Ohioans who have policies with American Trade Association Inc., American Trade Association LLC, Smart Data Solutions LLC and/or Serve America Assurance, will be affected by the liquidation of the companies...
Jun 22 2010 // U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper and U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander say they would secure funding for the Army Corps of Engineers to produce a detailed report of the May flooding in Tennessee.Cooper issued a statement saying he had been...
Jun 16 2010 // A state official says Tennessee has made some headway in reducing traffic fatalities among teens.Phillip Doss, director of the state’s Offices of Research and Educational Accountability, commented to The Tennessean...