Todd South covers courts and the military for the Times Free Press. He has worked at the paper for three years and previously covered crime and safety in Southeast Tennessee and North Georgia.
Todd’s hometown is Dodge City, Kan. He served five years in the U.S. Marine Corps and deployed to Iraq before returning to school for his journalism degree from the University of Georgia. Todd previously worked at the Anniston (Ala.) Star.
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Part of Gov. Bill Haslam's major public safety overhaul would put wife beaters in jail and impose higher fines for the abuse. "We have a problem in our state that we need to address," said Bill Gibbons, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security and head of Haslam's subcommittee on public safety.
Jurors who found Jamaul Herman not guilty of murder on Wednesday told a prosecutor there was not enough evidence to convince them he pulled the trigger on Jerome Timmons on July 4, 2010.
A criminal court jury has found Jamaul Herman not guilty of murder.
A jury will reconvene this morning to continue deliberating the fate of a 29-year-old man charged with murder.
Rodney Smith clutched Carlos, his black-and-white Chihuahua, as he stood before a standing room-only crowd of more than 100 people in court.
The second-degree murder trial of a 21-year-old man charged in the shooting death of another man is scheduled March 6.
Convicted murderer Fredrick Brown, who lodged a chancy appeal of his guilty pleas and sentencing for killing two men in separate shootings, won a small victory Friday.
The fiancee of a man on trial for murder testified Friday that in the hours before the shooting the defendant did not have a weapon. Arlinda Moorer said she met with Jamaul Herman, her fiancee, at The Palace near midnight on July 3, 2010, and the pair stayed together until the club closed just after 2 a.m.
A jury found a 38-year-old Chattanooga man guilty of voluntary manslaughter today in a decades old murder case.
Fredrick Brown is awaiting a jury's decision to see if his legal appeal, which got him in front of a jury to face the first of two first-degree murder charges, will give him a chance to leave prison early.
