All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 9 2008 // Tennessee State Fire Marshal and Insurance Commissioner, Leslie Newman, reminds Tennesseans that being safe while cooking outdoors is just as important as practicing fire safety while cooking indoors.According to the...
Apr 8 2008 // Tennessee resident, Irene Daugherty, is home but still shaken after an oil well explosion just 60 yards from her front door melted the siding on her manufactured home and transformed the landscape into charred stumps and...
Apr 8 2008 // A bridge in Tennessee that is part of the main route to the Memphis International Airport is undergoing emergency repairs.State inspectors found that strong currents on Nonconnah Creek is washing away bed material around a...
Apr 7 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Liquor Liability with Assault and...
Apr 4 2008 // Tennessee drivers scored a major legislative victory with the passage of a new law that stops cities from imposing hidden taxes on motorists, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America.The...
Apr 3 2008 // A proposal to tighten Tennessee’s open-container law could allow state officials to spend more money on infrastructure projects instead of on safety programs.State Transportation Department officials said Tuesday...
Apr 3 2008 // A proposal to lower the blood alcohol content required for a person to be guilty of extreme drunken driving is among several impaired driving bills slowly moving in the Tennessee Legislature.The measure sponsored by Sen....
Apr 2 2008 // Fire investigators have ruled that a blaze that burned a Knoxville, Tenn. sports uniform factory was intentionally set.It took firefighters nearly five hours on March 16 to put out the fire that heavily damaged Sports...
Apr 2 2008 // Tennessee is taking delivery of mobile homes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to temporarily house Macon County tornado victims.While FEMA trailers have been scrutinized recently over reports of exposing...
Apr 2 2008 // In a flurry of statewide appointments to boards and commissions last month, Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen appointed two new members to the state Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council. Katherine D. Boyte, of Nashville...
Apr 1 2008 // A tugboat pushing a barge near Florence, Ala., collided in darkness with another boat on the Tennessee River, killing at least one person on the second boat.A search on March 28 identified what appears to be the...
Mar 31 2008 // The operator of an Anderson County, Tenn. oil well that burned for nearly a week has been cited by the state for five violations and fined $50,000.According to the citation, Dan Potts was drilling too deeply and...
Mar 28 2008 // A former employee of the University of Tennessee is accused of setting two fires at a Knoxville dormitory.The university says Amy Ellis, who was a housekeeper at UT’s Humes Hall, has been charged with aggravated...
Mar 27 2008 // A nearly week-old oil well fire in Anderson County, Tenn. was extinguished Tuesday, but officials worried about the danger of lingering natural gas vapors asked residents to stay away.A spokeswoman for the Environmental...
Mar 26 2008 // Chattanooga fire investigators arrested four juvenile girls from Georgia on charges of setting fire to a vacant building. A Fire Department statement said no one was injured in the March 20 fire at the former Old Narrow...
Mar 24 2008 // Kenneth A. Bowles as been named the 2008 PIA National Professional Agent of the Year by the National Association of Professional Insurance Agents.Bowles was honored for his work on behalf of professional insurance agents,...
Mar 24 2008 // The following markets were selected from the MyNewMarkets database of 25,000 coverages and programs. To find additional markets, or to submit markets, go to www.MyNewMarkets.com.Contractors Nuts & Bolts: Lemac &...
Mar 24 2008 // A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official has told Anderson County residents that Tennessee officials did not inform them of an oil well fire in a timely manner.The well near Oliver Springs struck a huge pocket of...
Mar 20 2008 // Authorities investigating a Crossville, Tenn. house fire that killed two people said the fire was caused by arson.Officials won’t discuss the cause of the fire or who they think started the blaze inside Darrell and...
Mar 20 2008 // Tennessee authorities said at least one person has been burned and residents have been ordered to evacuate after an Anderson County oil well caught fire.Firefighters from several departments were working to put out the...