TN State News

  • Making the Most out of Summer: Job Opportunities

    Updated: Mon May 20, 2013 10:46 PM

    Mom and dad: it may be easier for your teenager to find a summer job this year. A new state-by-state analysis of teen unemployment shows, while more companies are hiring for the summer, the number of teens without jobs is still very high.

  • Making the Most of Summer: Keeping Minds Sharp

    Updated: Mon May 20, 2013 8:12 PM

    Ask your child's teacher what they worry about most during the summer months. You might hear many of them talk about the dreaded summer brain drain.

  • Making the Most of Summer: Child Care Concerns

    Updated: Mon May 20, 2013 8:05 PM

    Many families still struggle with adequate daycare in our country. A study by the US Census shows paying for child care is the biggest financial struggle for the poor and middle class.

  • Fighting back against floodwater mosquitoes

    Updated: Mon May 20, 2013 6:30 PM

    It's being compared to the flood of 2011. Not the rain or the water levels, but the huge amount of mosquitoes swarming around our area that came along with that flood.

  • Build your own homemade mosquito trap

    Updated: Mon May 20, 2013 3:50 PM

    Looking for a way to battle the mosquito population around your home? Local 6 has directions for a simple, homemade trap that could help.

  • Tennessee fugitive arrested in Fulton County, Kentucky, faces child rape charge

    Updated: Mon May 20, 2013 11:55 AM

    A Tennessee fugitive wanted on child rape charges was captured in Fulton County, Kentucky on Friday night.

  • Crash kills two on Tennessee highway

    Updated: Sun May 19, 2013 8:04 PM

    Two people are dead following a crash in Obion County, Tennesee Sunday afternoon.

  • Affidavit: Army sex assault manager threatened ex

    Updated: Fri May 17, 2013 4:07 PM

    A police affidavit in the stalking case of an Army officer who manages the sexual harassment and assault response program at Fort Campbell says Lt. Col. Darin Haas threatened to kill his ex-wife in text messages.

  • Head of Fort Campbell harassment program arrested

    Updated: Thu May 16, 2013 5:33 PM

    Army officials say the manager of the sexual assault response program at Fort Campbell has been arrested in a domestic dispute and relieved of his post.

  • Gov. Haslam signs grocery tax reduction into law

    Updated: Thu May 16, 2013 3:29 PM

    Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has signed into law a reduction in the state's sales tax on groceries. Starting on July 1, Tennessee shoppers will pay a 5 percent sales tax on retail food items.

  • TVA officials to toast 80th anniversary of utility

    Updated: Thu May 16, 2013 5:20 AM

    The Tennessee Valley Authority will observe its 80th anniversary with a public event Friday in Knoxville.

  • Tenn. senator: Sale idea cost TVA $500 million

    Updated: Wed May 15, 2013 5:13 PM

    Sen. Lamar Alexander says President Barack Obama's plan to consider selling the Tennessee Valley Authority has already cost hundreds of millions of dollars - even if the nation's largest public utility is never sold.

  • TVA to offer early retirement incentives

    Updated: Tue May 14, 2013 7:24 AM

    The Tennessee Valley Authority is offering retirement incentives to employees of some of its coal-fired power plants. TVA wants to cut some of the 2,400 jobs in the fossil plant division.

  • Memphis test fraud ringleader gets 7 years

    Updated: Mon May 13, 2013 3:25 PM

    A federal judge in Memphis has sentenced a longtime Memphis educator to seven years in prison in a test-taking fraud scheme.

  • Court filing suggests pharmacy misled regulators

    Updated: Fri May 10, 2013 7:19 AM

    New court filings suggest a Massachusetts pharmacy blamed for a deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis last year may have used patient lists from a Nashville clinic to mislead regulators.

  • Local pageant winner prepares to part with trophies and tiaras

    Updated: Fri May 10, 2013 11:52 AM

    If Honey Boo Boo and her tiara-toting friends make you cringe, don't worry! Bella Turnbow is sure to make you smile.

  • April revenues $160.9M more than Tennessee budgeted

    Updated: Thu May 9, 2013 7:01 PM

    State Finance Commissioner Mark Emkes says overall April revenues were $160.9 million more than the state budgeted.

  • AG: Tenn. 'Ag-gag bill' constitutionally suspect

    Updated: Thu May 9, 2013 5:10 PM

    The state's attorney general has opined that legislation requiring anyone recording images of animal abuse to submit unedited footage or photos to law enforcement within 48 hours is constitutionally suspect.

  • Jury finds 3 guilty of weapons plant break-in

    Updated: Wed May 8, 2013 7:54 PM

    A federal jury has found an 83-year-old nun and two fellow protesters guilty of breaking into the Y-12 National Security Complex and defacing a uranium processing plant.

  • Tennessee offering teacher bonuses to recruit talent

    Updated: Wed May 8, 2013 7:53 PM

    The state Department of Education has rolled out a new package of incentives to help bring the best teachers to Tennessee's worst schools.

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