A new law named after Charlie Kirk is encouraging Tennessee teachers to include the positive impacts of religion in American history classes.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia entered the news in March 2025 after he was deported to El Salvador despite a court ruling that should have prevented it.
A new Tennessee law has eased up on two longstanding financial hurdles for people with felony sentences who want their voting rights back.
Michigan starting point guard Elliot Cadeau has rejoined his teammates for the Final Four and said his allergic reaction that required hospitalization a day earlier was due to an accidental exposure to nuts.
The Army has launched an administrative review after two AH-64 Apache helicopters on a training run maneuvered near the hillside home of Kid Rock.
Yaxel Lendeborg scored 27 points, Elliot Cadeau had 10 assists and Michigan rolled into the Final Four by overwhelming Tennessee for a 95-62 victory in the NCAA Tournament.
There is one perfect bracket left for the women’s NCAA Tournament among the millions of entries in the ESPN bracket challenge and in the contests tracked on the NCAA’s official website.
Ja’Kobi Gillespie scored 21 points, Nate Ament and Bishop Boswell played pivotal roles down the stretch and sixth-seeded Tennessee advanced to its fourth straight Sweet 16, beating Virginia 79-72 in the NCAA Tournament.
Zamareya Jones scored 15 of her career-high 30 points in the first half to help build a double-digit lead and seventh-seeded North Carolina State went on to beat the slumping, 10th-seeded Tennessee 76-61 in the first round of March Madness.
Three teenagers in Tennessee have sued Elon Musk’s xAI, claiming the company’s image-generation tools were used to morph real photos of them into explicitly sexual images.
Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey called the NCAA language covering tampering rules “archaic,” but stopped short of urging the oversight body to halt tampering investigations, the way the Big Ten did earlier this week.
Texas joined UConn, UCLA and South Carolina as No. 1 seeds in the women’s NCAA Tournament if it began now.
The East Tennessee Children's Hospital is now known as Dolly Parton Children's Hospital.
Twin brothers sue Universal Studios, alleging they were injured when a Harry Potter‑themed ride at Epic Universe malfunctioned.
Duke's win against Michigan has pushed the Blue Devils to No. 1 in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll.
A judge in Tennessee has denied Joey Aguilar’s bid for an injunction that would have enabled the quarterback to continue playing for the Volunteers this fall.
People in North Carolina are digging out from a foot or more of snow and Florida farmers need their frozen plants to thaw before they can assess the damage.
Azzi Fudd and UConn got a measure of revenge for the team’s most recent loss, handing Tennessee the largest defeat in the history of the storied rivalry between the teams.
Azzi Fudd scored 27 points and Sarah Strong added 26 to help No. 1 UConn beat 15th-ranked Tennessee 96-66 on Sunday, handing the Lady Vols their worst loss in the storied rivalry.
Forecasters warned that dangerous extra-cold conditions will persist for a huge swath of the U.S. from the Gulf Coast into New England.
A “bomb cyclone” that brings heavy snow to parts of the Carolinas and ushers in frigid temperature to much of East Coast Saturday is likely to persist into Sunday.
Hundreds of National Guard troops have been mobilized in ice-stricken Mississippi and Tennessee to clear debris and help people stranded in cars and homes still without power as the Southern states brace for another blast of dangerous cold weather.
The NHL has postponed the Columbus Blue Jackets’ home game against the Los Angeles Kings on Monday night because of a major winter storm that created dangerous travel conditions across much of the United States.
Memorial Magic is back in a very big way for Vanderbilt with the Southeastern Conference’s only private university as the nation’s only program with both its men’s and women’s teams still undefeated.
Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid says quarterback Gardner Minshew will have an MRI on his injured left knee.
Tennessee has executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection for the 1988 rape and murder of 20-year-old Karen Pulley, a student at Chattanooga State Community College.
Cracker Barrel posted lower-than-expected sales in its fiscal first quarter and lowered its revenue forecast for the year as it continued to feel the fallout from a botched plan to revamp its logo and restaurants.
President Donald Trump and top Republicans are making a last-ditch push to prevent embarrassment in a hotly contested Tennessee special election for Congress.
Houston coach Kelvin Sampson highlighted the free-throw disparity after the third-ranked Cougars lost 76-73 to No. 17 Tennessee.
Ja'Kobi Gillespie scored 22 points, including six free throws in the final 35 seconds, to lead No. 17 Tennessee to a 76-73 victory over No. 3 Houston in the Players Era Championship.
DeSean Bishop ran for 116 yards and two touchdowns, including one that ended with a flip into the end zone, and No. 20 Tennessee overwhelmed rival Florida 31-11 to win in the Swamp for the first time since 2003.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell knew the question was coming at the Tennessee Titans’ ceremony Friday before raising the final steel beam into place for their new enclosed stadium.
A Tennessee judge has blocked the use of the National Guard in Memphis under a crimefighting operation by President Donald Trump but also put the order on hold, giving the government five days to appeal.
Tennessee interim coach Mike McCoy said Titans wide receiver Calvin Ridley will miss the rest of the season after breaking his right leg Sunday in a loss to the Texans.
Tennessee Titans cornerback L’Jarius Sneed has been indicted in Texas on a misdemeanor charge for failing to report an aggravated assault.
With SNAP benefits going out late, nonprofits are begging for pet food donations to prevent desperate owners from surrendering their dogs and cats to animal shelters.
President Donald Trump has pardoned former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada and his aide Cade Cothren.
The parents of children killed in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville are fighting to keep police investigative records a secret.
A coalition of news organizations is suing Tennessee’s top prisons official and a warden, alleging that state execution protocols unconstitutionally limit the media’s access to the entire process when inmates are put to death.
A federal judge in Tennessee has warned of possible sanctions against top Trump administration officials if they continue to make inflammatory statements about Kilmar Abrego Garcia that could prejudice his coming trial.
A former Tennessee state representative has been sentenced to eight months in prison for her role in a scheme involving a taxpayer-funded mail business.
Authorities say they have identified the remains of 14 of the 16 people killed last week in a massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant.
The last weekend of October now looks like the second week of March Madness even though the games don't count.
Authorities have identified the 16 people killed in a devastating blast at a rural Tennessee explosives plant last week.
Churches near the site of a devasting blast at a rural Tennessee plant devoted Sunday services to the 16 victims and their families as surrounding communities mourn.
Authorities say a blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors.
Women’s college basketball wasn’t always the behemoth with storied programs like UConn, Tennessee and South Carolina dominating the headlines and the Final Four.
Matt Van Epps, a former commissioner in Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s administration, has won a crowded Republican primary in the special election to replace a GOP congressman who left office this summer.
The FBI in 2023 analyzed phone records of more than a half dozen Republican lawmakers as part of an investigation into efforts by Donald Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller have converged on Memphis, Tennessee, to meet with federal agents forming a crime fighting task force there.
The Tennessee Supreme Court has set execution dates for four people, including the only woman in the state on death row.
A top New Orleans police official is welcoming the idea of working with federal troops deployed to Louisiana’s largest city.
Joey Aguilar forced overtime with a 6-yard touchdown run with 1:55 left and DeSean Bishop scored on a 25-yard run on the first play of the extra session in No. 15 Tennessee’s 41-34 victory over Mississippi State on Saturday.
A 10-foot tall statue of rock n’ roll queen Tina Turner has been unveiled in the rural Tennessee community where she grew up, before she became a singer and electrifying stage performer and one the world’s most recognizable and popular entertainers.
For two weeks, Memphis has been bracing for an influx of National Guard troops after President Donald Trump announced his intention to deploy them to the city.
The Southeastern Conference announced league matchups for the next four years and designated three annual opponents for each of its 16 teams.
Bobby Cain, who helped integrate one of the first high schools in the South in 1956 as one of the Clinton 12, has died in Nashville.
President Trump has announced the deployment of the National Guard to Memphis to combat crime, testing the limits of presidential power by using military force in cities.
Texas A&M made a big jump into the top 10 of The Associated Press college football poll Sunday after its dramatic win at Notre Dame, and the Irish became the first team since 1988 to stay in the Top 25 with an 0-2 record.
A company says detainees have started arriving at a former Tennessee prison that’s been turned into a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.
The Trump administration is ending several grant programs reserved for colleges that have large numbers of minority students, saying they amount to illegal discrimination.
Prosecutors say a 24-year-old man with ties to white nationalist groups has pleaded guilty to charges that he attempted to use a drone to bomb a Nashville electricity substation.
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are concerned he can’t get a fair trial in his human smuggling case in Tennessee.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces deportation to Uganda after checking in with immigration officials on Monday in Baltimore.
The NFL joined the WNBA in having a sex toy thrown onto the field when someone tossed one during the Tennessee Titans’ preseason finale.
The Trump administration said Friday it will not defend a decades-old grant program for heavily Hispanic universities that is being challenged in court, declaring that the government believes the funding is unconstitutional.
The Trump administration says it will not defend a decades-old grant program for heavily Hispanic universities that is being challenged in court, declaring that the government believes the funding is unconstitutional.
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked a federal judge to dismiss a human smuggling case against him.
Three more Republican governors have authorized the deployment of National Guard troops to Washington.
Officials in a rural Tennessee town have voted to approve agreements to turn a former prison into an immigration detention facility operated by a private company, despite loud objections from upset residents and activists during a contentious public meeting.
Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against a Tennessee man charged with killing the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a home’s yard.
Surveillance systems in American schools increasingly monitor everything students write on school accounts and devices.
Police in Tennessee have charged a 23-year-old woman with assisting a man wanted in the killings of four people.
A new clock started the instant the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Braves cleared the baseball diamond inside the infield at Bristol Motor Speedway.
A record crowd for a regular-season Major League Baseball game got to see all the pomp and pageantry with the MLB Speedway Classic before the rain washed out the game itself in the bottom of the first inning.
Tennessee authorities have arrested two men they say are connected to the case of four murdered family members who were related to an abandoned infant.
