Tennessee National Guard members assigned to a federal anti-crime task force in Memphis fatally shot an armed 20-year-old man in the back, according to an autopsy report obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, contradicting police accounts that said the man was facing the troops when they fired. Authorities have said that Tyrin Johnson turned toward
HAMPTON, Tenn. — Two members of a university cycling team were killed and seven others were injured Wednesday when a car collided with a group of riders in northeastern Tennessee, state officials said. Milligan University, a private Christian school with just over 1,200 students, said 11 of its cyclists were out together on a morning
Kingsport, Tennessee, is a manufacturing town in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Home to generations of industrial workers, it is home to an ammunitions plant that manufactures explosives that the US military relies on. It has long been a Republican stronghold and many voters there say they still plan to support the Republican Party,
Three men in Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma are scheduled for lethal injection Thursday in a rare convergence of executions on the same day in the U.S. A man in Tennessee faces execution for killing a motel maid. An Oklahoma man is scheduled to die for killing his girlfriend. And an Alabama man will be put
All 435 House seats and 35 of the 100 Senate seats will be up for election. Hatcher is expected to face Columbia mayor Chaz Molder, who won the Democratic primary, in November. Ogles, who has represented Tennessee’s 5th district since taking office in 2023, has been at the centre of a number of controversies during
As a native New Yorker, I thought my move to Tennessee was temporary. But deep down I’m a country girl. Starting out more than a thousand miles away from loved ones is a challenge, especially when a new mom is no longer of childbearing age. My daughter Violet longed for friends and so did I.