TN couple pleads guilty to chicken abuse, fined $25 each
Tweet DRESDEN, Tenn. (AP) — The owners of a West Tennessee farm where animal rights activists took undercover video have pleaded no contest to one count each of animal cruelty. Thomas and Susan...
View ArticleNashville councilman shot, wounded at gas station
Tweet A Metro Nashville councilman remained hospitalized Thursday after being shot multiple times near a West Nashville gas station, according to The Tennessean. District 1 Metro Councilman Loniel...
View ArticleTDOC, TBI say destroying records of dismissed Nashville cases would cost $14M
Tweet A proposal to erase criminal charges filed against about 128,000 people in Nashville has come under fire by some who say it would cost more than $14 million to carry out, according to The...
View ArticleNorris leads Tennesseans at national juvenile jailing conference
Tweet News release from Sen. Mark Norris, via Senate Republican Caucus AUSTIN, TX-November 9, 2015-On the heels of new data showing a reduction in the number of youth incarcerated in Tennessee, Senate...
View ArticleHaslam on domestic violence and human trafficking
Tweet Gov. Bill Haslam cited the recent slaying of a Knoxville social worker — allegedly by her ex-husband who also kidnapped their child before being apprehended — in a speech on domestic violence...
View ArticleTN law on prosecuting drug-addicted mothers backed by drug-addicted mother
Tweet Nashville Public Radio looks to Northeast Tennessee in reporting that some of those involved in enforcement of a Tennessee law allowing criminal prosecution of mothers who have a child suffering...
View ArticleState penalizes three for insurance fraud
Tweet News release from Department of Commerce and Insurance NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) announces disciplinary actions today against three former Tennessee...
View ArticleKillian resigns as U.S. Attorney for East TN
Tweet News release from U.S. Attorney’s Office, East Tennessee KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – William C Killian, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, has submitted his resignation to President...
View ArticleKelsey has a carjacking bill
Tweet News release from Sen. Brian Kelsey, via Senate Republican Caucus NASHVILLE – State Senator Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown) said today he is introducing legislation to crack down on carjackings in...
View ArticleSeven TN educators still receiving pensions after criminal convictions
Tweet Nashville television station WSMV reports finding seven Tennessee teachers and education administrators still collecting state pensions after conviction of crimes related to their jobs. The...
View ArticleLawmaker proposes traffic tickets for slow pokes
Tweet State Rep. Dan Howell, R-Georgetown, is proposing a new traffic offense through what he calls a “slow poke law,” reports The Tennessean. It targets motorists driving too slow in a passing lane...
View ArticleFormer Gibson County sheriff and employees indicted
Tweet News release from Tennessee Bureau of Investigation JACKSON – A joint investigation by Special Agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and investigators with the Tennessee Comptroller...
View ArticleAudit finds $104K missing from indicted sheriff’s office
Tweet TRENTON, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury’s investigation says an audit found a cash shortage of more than $109,000 in the Gibson County Sheriff’s Office. Much of the...
View ArticleGrand jury decides against indicting Rep. Durham
Tweet By Eric Schelzig, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Prosecutors sought an indictment of a top Republican in the Tennessee state House on charges of prescription fraud, but a grand jury in his...
View ArticleTDOC’s ‘Operation Cleanup’ nets 24 arrests in JC
Tweet The Tennessee Department of Correction is conducting vehicle searches at probation offices statewide, reports the Johnson City Press. In a search this week at the Johnson City office, 24 persons...
View ArticleMore on unindicted Rep. Durham
Tweet Some cautious commentary has been offered by House Speaker Beth Harwell and State Republican Chairman Ryan Haynes on a grand jury decision against indicting state Rep. Jeremy Durham, reports The...
View ArticleState trooper charged with disappearing drugs
Tweet MANCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper is charged with misconduct after investigators say drugs given to him to train a drug-detection K9 disappeared. According to...
View ArticleDurham sought light sentence for child porn convict
Tweet By Erik Schelzig, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A top Republican in the state House wrote to a federal judge to call for a lenient sentence for a former youth pastor convicted of child...
View ArticleTN shooting deemed terrorist act; medals for victims
Tweet By Travis Loller, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — After determining a shooting at a Chattanooga reserve center this summer was inspired by foreign terrorists, the Navy will award the...
View ArticleObama grants pre-Christmas commutations to two TN drug offenders
Tweet Two federal prison inmates from Tennessee, both convicted on charges of distributing cocaine, are among 95 persons receiving pre-Christmas sentence commutations from President Obama, according...
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