DALTON, Ga. - Sheriff's officials in Whitfield County are searching for a suspect after two bodies were found at a home.
A 20-year-old man is dead after the victim in a Cumberland County home invasion fired several shots at his two assailants, fatally striking one of them, authorities said.
A second volume of a pictorial history book created in Bledsoe County has netted an Award of Distinction from the East Tennessee Historical Society for its quality and importance to the history of the community, officials say.
A collision between a pickup and tractor-trailer in Benton, Tenn., claimed the life of a local man late Monday, authorities said.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol and Benton police are continuing to investigate a fatal wreck overnight in Benton, Tenn., that claimed the life of a local man, according to police.
RAINSVILLE, Ala. -- Students weren't at Plainview School the day tornadoes killed 33 people in DeKalb County, Ala., including a Plainview freshman, her mother and stepfather.
SECTION, Ala. -- A donation of land at a spot called Twin Eagle Point in Jackson County, Ala., will give the small town of Section a park with a spectacular view of the Tennessee River.
The new schools director in Bledsoe County, Tenn., has signed a two-year contract that allows a backup plan should she leave the post or if her contract is not renewed in 2014.
State and local officials say they'll continue to monitor slide-prone areas of the Ocoee River Gorge's road cut on U.S. Highway 64 in Polk County, Tenn., after a small rock slide near TVA's No. 2 powerhouse temporarily closed one lane of the road overnight Tuesday.
Winchester, Tenn., native Sir John Marks Templeton would have been “thrilled” with a celebration of the virtues and values of the community that made him what he was, those who knew him say.
A high-volume natural gas pipeline could wind across a 230-mile gap from South Central Tennessee through North Alabama and Northwest Georgia on its way to link with a pipeline northeast of Atlanta.
Tainted synthetic marijuana has been linked to the hospitalization of at least 30 people in Northeast Alabama for kidney problems possibly related to a pesticide in the newly banned substance, according to authorities.
Northeast Alabama authorities say a rash of kidney problems involving at least 30 people in DeKalb and Cherokee counties have been linked to potentially tainted synthetic marijuana.
MONTEAGLE, Tenn. -- When you walk into Jim Oliver's Smoke House in Monteagle, Tenn., you immediately realize this is what those interstate-exit, country-cooking chains are shooting for.
Two Marion County, Tenn., men are charged with wire fraud and money laundering for allegedly defrauding hundreds of investors in California, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia of more than $45 million, according to an FBI news release.
MONTEAGLE, Tenn. -- Monteagle's downtown corridor project, part of an ongoing effort to extend a pedestrian/bicycle trail from Cowan, Tenn., in Franklin County to Palmer, Tenn., in Grundy County, kicked off over the last couple of weeks with road work and striping along the town's main drag.
SEQUATCHIE, Tenn. — A project to renovate and widen Valley View Highway's bridge over the Little Sequatchie River is intended to cut the number of traffic accidents at the 88-year-old span.
Trenton, Ga., officials' decision to eliminate the position of Better Hometown manager led six of the seven members of the city's Downtown Development Authority board to resign as one last week.
After state House members battled over the future of Taft Youth Development Center on Thursday but failed to save it, state Department of Children's Services officials spelled out initial plans for the teens housed there as the facility's closure approaches.
DAYTON, Tenn. — About 200 people filled the main courtroom at the Rhea County Courthouse on Thursday night to voice concerns, opposition, chastisements and support for two proposed coal mining operations on Dayton Mountain.
A 35-year-old man lost one of his legs and may lose the other after being hit by a train in Dayton, Tenn. The victim, identified by police as Adam Wes Moreland, was found early Thursday morning, lying on the east side of the tracks between the crossings at Iowa and Illinois avenues, according to the Dayton Police Department.
A 35-year-old man was struck by a southbound Norfolk Southern train in Dayton, Tenn., overnight on the tracks between the crossings at Iowa and Illinois avenues, according to the Dayton Police Department.
PITTS GAP, Tenn. — Every morning they awaken with fresh wounds. Every day it's as if the tornadoes struck just yesterday.
Pitts Gap Church of God pastor Leroy Smith knows most of the folks on Brayton Mountain, usually as neighbors, by passing acquaintance or through his church.
PITTS GAP, Tenn. -- Except for splintered wood that's weathered gray, the landscape atop Brayton Mountain looks like the EF4 twister that claimed four lives just passed through. It's been almost a year.
Officials say traffic on Interstate 24 should be less snarled by ongoing roadwork at Kimball and South Pittsburg this year for masses of hungry people headed to the National Cornbread Festival this weekend.
Marion County authorities have released a composite sketch of the man they say attacked a woman at a home north of Powells Crossroads.
Authorities in Marion County, Tenn., are awaiting DNA results from a body found Wednesday in a burned-out camper. County Sheriff Ronnie "Bo" Burnett said the fire, which took place off Poe Road between Jasper and Haletown, apparently happened Saturday or Sunday, and the camper burned down to its frame.
Local and state authorities are looking into the discovery Wednesday of a burned body found in a burned out camper off of Poe Road in Marion County.
Marion County, Tenn., authorities are searching for a known sex offender in connection with a child rape case involving a 4-year-old girl.
Marion County authorities are seeking a 34-year-old man in connection with charges of child rape and violation of the Tennessee’s sex offender registry, according to detectives.
Marion County, Tenn., authorities are seeking an attacker who claimed to be a Jehovah's Witness and then stabbed a woman multiple times, detectives say.
The 160-year-old Bledsoe County Jail building likely will never hold another prisoner, but it will offer a home to a military museum and the county's Veterans Service Office.
Dade County Schools Superintendent Shawn Tobin equates Georgia's education funding plan with requiring a swimmer to do the same number of laps as always -- just with no arms and one leg.
A cloudless sky overhead, freshly turned soil beneath their orange flip-flops and Crocs, a dozen inmates at the Bledsoe County Detention Center pick clumps of grass and rocks from the dirt to ready the jail's first garden for planting.
Harry Hawkins lives a pasture away from the prospective site of the first deep coal mine to be part of Walden's Ridge life in nearly 100 years. But it won't be new to him, or to many of his Dayton Mountain neighbors in Rhea County.
Authorities in DeKalb County, Ala., continue to probe the death of a teen found Wednesday at a home in Crossville while they also search for a man who they say left the scene when the body was discovered.
Investigators in DeKalb County, Ala., are interviewing people over the death of a 17-year-old in Crossville on Wednesday, and they are seeking a man who left the scene when the body was discovered.
Grundy County authorities released few details Wednesday about a criminal homicide charge leveled last month in the shooting death of a 26-year-old man.
Grundy County voters in County Commission District 3 will vote in August on a replacement candidate for the post vacated last month by Earl Geary Jr., according to officials.
A 50-year-old Pennsylvania man died Saturday after falling from a bluff on Sewanee Mountain in Franklin County, according to authorities.
As Sequatchie County officials study a new roof for the Sequatchie County Fair building, fair adviser Karen Marshall narrows her eyes at the rain-darkened clouds bearing down on the facility's leaky roof Friday.
Chattanooga Police officials say that five people, including three children, who were involved in an accident this morning on Interstate 24 at the Market Street exit all received minor injuries.
The 55-degree temperature of the Tennessee River might have contributed to the death of a 31-year-old construction worker who fell into it on Monday, authorities say.
The body of a 31-year-old construction worker was found overnight in the Tennessee River just below the U.S. Highway 41 bridge project at Haletown, Tenn., according to Marion County authorities.
Lawmakers introduced a number of pieces of legislation this session to bolster laws against synthetic drugs in Tennessee after some in local law enforcement expressed concerns that current laws allowed room for the bad guys to duck the state code.
Grundy County Schools netted 13 applicants to replace retiring Director of Schools Jody Hargis.
Sequatchie County High School veteran Assistant Principal Shannon Land was named Tennessee Assistant Principal of the Year by a state association. She's now eligible for consideration for the 2012 national award.
Employees at Taft Youth Development Center soon will be getting 90-day termination notices in anticipation that the new state budget won’t have any funding for the Bledsoe County facility, state officials said.
Grundy County Commission Chairman Earl Geary Jr. announced he is resigning from the government panel, and his last meeting will come on Monday night.
