Tennessee

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Thursday that he planned to sign a bill state legislators sent to his desk this week that would allow school staff members to carry concealed handguns on school grounds.

The body of missing college student Riley Strain has been recovered, police said Friday morning.

Police in Nashville say that five people have died after a small plane crashed Monday night near an interstate highway, shutting down multiple lanes.

The sheriff in Blount County south of Knoxville says over $80,000 in reward money has been pledged for information leading to the arrest of 42-year-old Kenneth DeHart.

Authorities have exhumed the body of the wife of a famed former Tennessee sheriff more than a half-century after she was fatally shot in a still-unsolved killing.

A security camera captured the moment a tornado hit two electric substations on Saturday, the Nashville Electric Service said.

Central Tennessee residents and emergency workers are digging out from devastating weekend storms that killed six people, toppled houses and cut power to tens of thousands.

Three people are dead, including a child, and nearly two dozen were being treated for injuries at a local hospital after a tornado tore through the middle of Tennessee on Saturday, officials said.

Our anger is with the system that allowed this to happen,” said the father of Jillian Ludwig, the college student who was fatally shot when she went for a walk at a park.

A FedEx spokesperson told news outlets that the flight from Chattanooga to Memphis experienced an issue right after taking off.

Five former Memphis police officers have been charged with federal civil rights violations in the beating death of Tyre Nichols.

One person is in critical condition after being shot during a Lil Baby concert at FedEx Forum arena in Memphis, Tenn. on Thursday night.

The 5-week-old spotless baby giraffe in Tennessee was named after zoo fans submitted votes online.

The ruling came after three people holding small signs urging gun control were removed from a hearing on Tuesday.

The giraffe born at Brights Zoo in Limestone, Tenn., is believed to be the only solid-colored reticulated giraffe in the world.

A district attorney in Tennessee has said his office has dropped 30 to 40 cases involving the five former officers who have been charged with second-degree murder in the January beating death of Tyre Nichols.

The former NFL player only this year discovered that the family hailed for adopting him in the popular book and movie never actually did so, according to a new petition.

Manning, who graduated from the University of Tennessee in 1997, will return to his alma mater this fall as a professor of practice at the College of Communication and Information.

The 450-pound bear splashed around a pool of bubbly water in Knoxville, Tenn.

The young Black lawmakers were reinstated by local officials after being booted from the GOP-dominated Statehouse, but only on an interim basis