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.

At The Gentle Barn, this flock of turkeys isn't going to end up on your plate, but they might cuddle up in your lap.

Owen McCown threw for five touchdowns, Will Henderson ran for 146 yards, and UTSA became bowl eligible by beating East Carolina 58-24.

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.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's office says the National Guard will continue supporting a crime-fighting task force ordered by President Donald Trump in Memphis while state lawyers appeal a judge's order that blocked the troops from operating in the city.

Owen McCown threw two touchdown passes and ran for another, Will Henderson III rushed for a career-high 185 yards and a score and UTSA beat Charlotte 28-7 on Saturday.

Tennessee Titans cornerback L’Jarius Sneed has been indicted in Texas on a misdemeanor charge for failing to report an aggravated assault.

Attorneys for Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols are asking the governor to convert his sentence to life imprisonment with just a month until his scheduled Dec. 11 execution date.

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.

Along with stop, drop and roll, some states are teaching students to 'Stop and don't touch that gun.'.

President Donald Trump has pardoned former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada and his aide Cade Cothren.

Owen McCown was 31-of-33 passing for 370 yards and four touchdowns, David Amador II and Devin McCuin each had two touchdown catches, and UTSA beat Tulane 48-26.

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.

Tony Vitello's move from college coach to pro manager is a rare journey in modern baseball.

The AP Top 25 college football rankings are set for a shake-up after a wild weekend.

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.

Owen McCown throws three first-half touchdown passes as UTSA dominates Rice with a 61-13 victory on Saturday night.

As the National Guard enters Memphis, some longtime residents are recalling the thousands sent there in 1968.

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.

Officials say an explosion at a Tennessee explosives plant has left 18 people missing and feared dead.

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.

Evan Simon threw two touchdown passes and Hunter Smith had a long touchdown run as Temple dominated the second half for a 27-21 win over UTSA in the American Athletic Conference opener for both teams on Saturday.

A Tennessee special election to replace a Republican congressman who stepped aside this summer has attracted crowded primaries for both major parties.

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.

President Donald Trump has created a task force to fight crime in Memphis.

The Southeastern Conference announced league matchups for the next four years and designated three annual opponents for each of its 16 teams.

AP's Top 25 college football rankings are in.

Owen McCown throws a 74-yard touchdown pass to Robert Henry Jr., helping UTSA beat Colorado State 17-16 on Saturday night.

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.

AP Top 25 ballots became even tougher to perfect as the dust settled on Week 3 of college football.

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.

Week 2 in college football had some seriously one-sided scores.

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia are concerned he can’t get a fair trial in his human smuggling case in Tennessee.

Tennessee wants to make sure Rick Barnes stays with the Volunteers as long as he wants to coach the men’s basketball team.

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.

Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn has announced that she is entering the open Tennessee governor’s race in 2026.

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.

The MLB Speedway Classic has been suspended by rain.

Bristol Motor Speedway is ready to make history again by hosting the first Major League Baseball game in Tennessee.

The Speedway Classic will break Major League Baseball’s single-game, regular-season attendance record.

Twenty-eight men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and nine other people are scheduled to be put to death in seven states during the rest of 2025.

UTSA quarterback Owen McCown denied the rumors that a former University of Memphis safety sharing details of the team’s defensive playbook played a role in last year’s matchup between the two schools.

Workers have some finishing touches to put on the field inside the racetrack at Bristol Motor Speedway, where officials are expecting a record crowd to watch the Cincinnati Reds play the Atlanta Braves in the MLB Speedway Classic next Saturday.

Tennessee quarterback Will Levis will have season-ending shoulder surgery, keeping him from competing for playing time in his third season with the Titans.

Construction on a new enclosed stadium for the Tennessee Titans in Nashville, Tennessee, has been halted after a noose was found at the construction site.

The owner of a factory where six workers died last year in flooding from Hurricane Helene won’t face charges after a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation found no criminal wrongdoing.

A federal judge in Tennessee says he won't immediately rule on whether to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from jail as he awaits trial on human smuggling charges.

Megan Grant, a two-time All-American softball star at UCLA, is joining the Bruins’ women’s basketball team this season.

A small town in Tennessee courted national publicity a century ago when it recruited a local teacher to challenge a state law banning the teaching of evolution.

The Trump administration hasn’t decided where it would deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia if he is freed from a Tennessee jail.

The 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on religion in public schools.

Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution.

The Supreme Court has thrown out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in four states following the justices’ recent decision upholding a Tennessee ban on certain medical treatment for transgender youths.

Crews have reopened a section of Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky Mountains after flooding and a rock slide closed the major cross country highway for nine days.

Turning a racetrack into a baseball field worthy of hosting Major League Baseball takes time and a plan.

Heavy rain, flooding and a rock slide have again closed a section of the major cross country highway Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky Mountains.

A U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is leaving transgender children and their parents uncertain and anxious about its impact.

The court split 6-3 along ideological lines on a case from Tennessee. About two dozen states have similar bans in place.

The Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a jolting setback to transgender rights.

The NAACP and an environmental group say they intend to sue Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI over concerns about air pollution generated by a supercomputer near predominantly Black communities in Memphis.

A runaway pet zebra has been captured in Tennessee.

The Southeastern Conference is ratcheting up penalties on schools whose fans storm the field or rush the court, doing away with an escalating fine system and now charging $500,000 per incident.

Oscar Smith came within minutes of being executed before Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a surprise reprieve just over three years ago.

Two-time Southeastern Conference defensive player of the year Zakai Zeigler is suing the NCAA over rules limiting him to four seasons in a five-year window.

For the first time in the United States, a utility is asking federal regulators for a permit to build a small nuclear reactor.

Some people thought the 1925 Scopes monkey trial marked a cultural defeat for biblical fundamentalism.

Police say Ohio State women’s basketball coach Kevin McGuff was charged with operating a vehicle while impaired last week.

An earthquake of 4.1 magnitude has been reported in Tennessee and was felt in Atlanta, Georgia, and western North Carolina.

More than 100 people have been taken into custody by federal immigration officials in a joint operation with the Tennessee Highway Patrol, leaving many in Nashville’s immigrant community uncertain and worried.

A former Nashville police lieutenant has been arrested on charges of theft, burglary and official misconduct.

A Nashville high school student who fatally shot a classmate before killing himself in January was on probation after threatening a student with a box cutter three months earlier.

A historic Black church in downtown Memphis that was the organizing point for Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand has suffered a devastating fire.

U.S. states are adopting and expanding programs that use taxpayer money to pay for private schools even as their costs rise and budget pictures become more uncertain.