All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 11 2023 // Multiple, minor earthquakes have been reported in western North Carolina in recent months but now they’re being felt in Tennessee and Virginia, the U.S. Geological Survey has reported. A 2.2-magnitude quake happened...
Jul 10 2023 // For decades, the whiskey and bourbon makers of Tennessee and Kentucky have been beloved in their communities. The distilleries where the liquor is manufactured and barrelhouses where it is aged have complemented the rural...
Jul 3 2023 // A 14-year-old boy is facing charges in Tennessee after a gun in his backpack accidentally fired in the gym of a youth community center on Wednesday, striking a 10-year-old peer and sending him to the hospital, according to...
Jun 26 2023 // Massive battery plants planned in Tennessee and Kentucky for Ford’s electric vehicles are on track to receive up to a $9.2 billion federal loan in what would be the biggest award under the U.S. Department of...
Jun 15 2023 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance is reporting that it has helped return more than $7.4 million to consumers so far in 2023 through its mediation and restitution efforts.TDCI said it is on trend to pass...
Jun 13 2023 // When a Tennessee man set off a bomb in downtown Nashville in 2020, it not only disrupted a peaceful Christmas morning in the city, it put some nearby establishments out of business for more than 30 months.The vehicle...
Jun 5 2023 // A Tennessee company could be heading for a legal battle with U.S. auto safety regulators after refusing a request that millions of potentially dangerous air bag inflators be recalled.The National Highway Traffic Safety...
May 25 2023 // Attorneys for a group of workers who believe their jobs cleaning up a massive coal ash spill in Tennessee led to a slew of illnesses, including fatal cancers, have reached a settlement with the contractor who organized the...
May 17 2023 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed off on additional protections for gun and ammunition dealers, manufacturers and sellers against lawsuits within a bill that lawmakers passed after a deadly school shooting in March.The...
May 15 2023 // A Tennessee company could be heading for a legal battle with U.S. auto safety regulators after refusing a request that millions of potentially dangerous air bag inflators be recalled.The National Highway Traffic Safety...
May 12 2023 // Gov. Bill Lee on Wednesday signed into law legislation designed to place more school resource officers in Tennessee public and private schools, funnel additional money into school security upgrades, and require every...
May 4 2023 // The Tennessee General Assembly has approved a workers’ compensation presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is work-related for firefighters, joining several other states that have adopted mental health...
May 2 2023 // Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Friday that a special lawmaking session dedicated to possible changes to the state’s gun laws in the wake of a deadly school shooting last month would likely have to take place after July...
May 1 2023 // Management shut down production Saturday at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee after three workers were struck by a vehicle on a walkway just outside the plant, authorities said.One person was killed, a second was critically...
Apr 20 2023 // In the wake of a deadly school shooting last month, Republican lawmakers in Tennessee awarded final passage Tuesday to a proposal that would further protect gun and ammunition dealers, manufacturers and sellers against...
Apr 3 2023 // Nine people died in Tennessee’s McNairy County, east of Memphis, in the same deadly storm system that pounded parts of Arkansas and Illinois, according to Patrick Sheehan, director the Tennessee Emergency Management...
Mar 21 2023 // Keystone Names Erwin VP for Kentucky, OhioKeystone Insurers Group, one of the largest participant-owned agency networks in the United States, has named Brian Erwin as state vice president for Kentucky and Ohio. Erwin comes...
Mar 17 2023 // Tool and die workers at a Nissan plant in Smyrna, Tennessee voted overwhelmingly against unionization Thursday, another loss for organized labor in the deep South.The workers voted 62-9 against joining the machinists...
Mar 10 2023 // A Tennessee lawmaker wants insurance carriers to offer paid family leave insurance as a way to make time off more affordable for employers.House Bill 609, sponsored by state Rep. David Hawk, R-Greenville, would establish a...
Mar 2 2023 // A federal judge has approved a settlement of more than $1 million in a class action lawsuit that challenged a federal immigration raid at an eastern Tennessee meatpacking plant where about 100 people were arrested.The...