National Folk Festival for 2011 through 2013.It's a free, three-day, multi-ethnic traditional arts festival. There will be different types of music and dance performances, workshops, children's...

As Thursday's games approach, fans who missed their chance to buy last year are at the mercy of private dealers working through Web sites. A book for the entire four-day tournament went on sale July...

"The National," billed as the oldest multiethnic traditional arts festival in the nation, moves every three years. This will be its final year in Butte,...

A church in Memphis is on a mission to be a church without walls New Bethel Temple is trying to address the violence in Memphis and help families in need The church is taking part in two significant...

Memphis tries to get Google's attention To become a pilot area for Google's plan to build fiber optic broadband networks. It would be incredibly fast and reach every home and business in the city. (...

Associated General Contractors of America . 1,200 construction jobs were added in Tennessee from December 2009 to January 2010, the latest month for which data are available. Tennessee was one of...

A bill that would plan for and fund green jobs programs in Tennessee advanced in the state House of Representatives today, but the potential cost of the program could present challenges in a...

says. But Williamson hasn’t completely escaped the downturn’s wrath. Its median household income is down from $93,166 in 2008, as reported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s...

Bain Capital . Citing unnamed sources, the article says an agreement is still more than a week away, if it happens at all. Boston-based Bain, which along with...

’s Air Cargo Excellence survey — honored FedEx Express, which achieved the second highest overall airline score. Only Southwest Airlines bested FedEx Express, a division of...

is indeed coming to Nashville. The annual three-day event, which is finishing up a three-year stint in Butte, Mont., will be held in Nashville in 2011, 2012 and 2013, which will be the...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A Memphis funeral home has been suspended from performing cremations because a body that was to have been cremated last year was discovered in a grave last month. According to...

RUSSELL CO., Ky. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday announced the partial suspension of work on the Wolf Creek Dam in Kentucky. The dam, located on Lake Cumberland, was deemed...

Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk said Muriel Bonds was driving a 1999 Ford F-150 pickup truck in a road in the park around noon today when he got a call on his cell...

A LaFollette police officer was suspended without pay today for allegedly hitting a man over the head with a pistol and threatening to kill him during a fracas over a card...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A federal magistrate handling dozens of lawsuits that seek damages from the Tennessee Valley Authority's coal ash spill has extended deadlines for some court...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The Memphis City Council has voted against a move to again let voters decide in November whether city workers should live within city...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Legislation is advancing in the House that seeks to clarify a Tennessee law allowing people with handgun permits to be armed in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. The...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The Commercial Appeal newspaper reports goverment records show a nighclub that employed a security guard charged with fatally shooting a man in the parking lot has no liquor,...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - With the majesty of the Smoky Mountains as a backdrop, the Pancake Pantry in Gatlinburg has been serving locals and visitors alike for 50 years. The restaurant touts itself...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A truck driver who was severely burned when his tanker caught fire at a Nashville gas station has died. The Nashville Fire Department said in a news release on Wednesday that...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Gibbons is proposing to fund pre-kindergarten expansion by cutting the amount of money the state lottery pays to ticket vendors. ...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Police in Murfreesboro arrested a man Tuesday night on charges he attacked a woman in the parking lot of a local department store and stole her wallet. The 17-year-old...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Fire nearly destroyed a group of townhomes in south Nashville Wednesday morning, but thanks to some caring neighbors and good construction, everyone was able to get out safely.The...

According to U.S. Marshal Warren Mays, Jonathan Jessee Ryans, 20, last known address 4550 Highway 126, Blountville, was arrested at about 1 a.m. Deputy Marshals and Knoxville police identified Mays...

The fire, which happened at a RaceWay on Donelson Pike, remains under investigation."Jerry was a true professional and will be missed by our customers and employees. He was the first person we hired...

LOS ANGELES -- Actor and former teen idol Corey Haim has died at the age of 38, the Los Angeles Police Department has confirmed to KTLA. Haim died at 2:15 a.m. Wednesday of an apparent accidental...

KBR announced this week that its Building Group subsidiary has been awarded a $94 million contract for preconstruction and construction services for a new hospital in the Atlanta metro...

. The Memphis-based nonprofit has been ranked No. 1 or 2 for the past four years. St. Jude also is the second highest rated nonprofit in terms of brand equity and ranked No. 3 on Harris’ list...

Revenue for the quarter increased 9.2 percent, to $10.7 million. The company’s 1 cent per share gain for the quarter matched the average of analyst expectations, although analysts told Thomson...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The driver of a tanker truck injured Tuesday morning in an explosion at a Donelson Pike gas station has died. William Dennis, who was known to family and friends as "Jerry",...

Investigators are looking into what started a house fire Tuesday night. The fire was reported just before 9:00pm Tuesday night on Virginia Avenue in Lonsdale. Firefighters say it started in a front...

Convicted murderer who took off before the jury was set to return a verdict has been recaptured Dearick Stokes disappeared during a bathroom break during his trial He was out on bail at the time, so...

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Blount County authorities have charged a Maryville man with aggravated animal cruelty after finding dead roosters in his yard. The Daily Times quotes a statement from Marion...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Four people were displaced from their homes after a fire spread through five Nashboro Village condos. The fire started just after 1 a.m. Wednesday at the Woodridge Condos on...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Thanks to the help of volunteers, a 10-week-old puppy missing since last month has been reunited with her owner. Mia has lost almost 20 pounds since she went missing. She is...

Clippers can rule out of their general manager search. "No contact, no interest, not looking to work anymore," former Lakers GM Jerry West said by telephone after the Dunleavy news broke. "Time for...

Work on the connector between Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, commonly called the Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge Spur, was completed two weeks early, allowing the opening on...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - The maker of Jack Daniel's whiskey and Korbel champagne says its fiscal third-quarter profit slipped, pinched by higher expenses. Brown-Forman Corp. also narrowed its...

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating what led a police officer to shoot a man early Wednesday morning. The shooting happened on Monthemer Cove Drive north of Interstate 40. Police...

A new Nashville entertainment company and a veteran midway operator have been selected to run the Tennessee State Fair this year as a private venture, with Metro government guaranteed to get at least...

According to legend, Guinness Stout was inspired by God. The story goes that Arthur Guinness, inventor of the famed brew, was praying one day, asking God to do something about alcohol abuse in his...

Most SEC schools sold all of their 2010 tournament tickets before the first tip-off. But there are a few choice seats available - for a few thousand dollars. As Thursday's games approach, fans who...

The Knoxville-area forecast calls for showers mainly after 1 p.m. under mostly cloudy skies. The chance of showers is 60 percent. Today’s high will be near...

At that point, he grabbed clothes, shoes, his passport and some cash, then took the stairs to the lobby, where he met UT lecturer Jack Mills and Tara Mohrfeld, UT MBA program manager of operations...