TENNESSEE

A black bear in Tennessee died after it entered a car parked at a Sevierville rental cabin possibly searching for food and got trapped in the sweltering heat.

My family and I visited an arboretum during a recent trip to Sevierville, Tennessee. We had a lovely time walking alongside a tranquil river that was flanked by over 70

The investigation began with a 16-year-old’s thumb injury, officials said.

A registered sex offender has now been arrested and charged in connection to a horrifying incident in Dyersburg, Tennessee, according to the Dyersburg Police Department.

It happened at a neighborhood pool, officials said.

The Tennessee Titans have added a handful of new coaches and scouts for training camp.

The chairman of the Nashville Predators has agreed to sell the majority of his stake in the NHL team to former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam.

Tennessee authorities are warning the public after folded dollar bills found in public places contained fentanyl.

The shooting happened in front of Mary's Bar & Grill early on June 5.

On two separate occasions, a dollar bill was found on the floor of a gas station containing methamphetamine and fentanyl, authorities say.

A black bear forcibly entered the tent of a five-person family camping in Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Sunday morning, injuring a toddler and her mother.

Grand Canyon National Park officials said Sheetal Patel, 47, was cooling off along Pipe Creek Beach when she fell into the Colorado River on Saturday.

The Giles County (Tenn.) Sheriff's office said on two occasions a folded dollar bill was found on the ground of a local gas station.

It happened in Grand Canyon National Park, where officials said she got swept away by the river's rapid currents.

The queen of country glamour Carrie Underwood brought the bling to the CMA Fest as she introduced her latest record, “Denim & Rhinestones.”.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has ordered an independent investigation of the state's lethal injections and paused all executions through the end of the year.

No. 1 national seed Tennessee is out of the NCAA baseball tournament.

The dollars may be “carrying pouches” for dangerous substances, the sheriff said.

The 300 hour program through the Memphis, Tennessee Division of Corrections educates and prepares inmates for a career in hair care once released.

Erik Finman, 23, plans to donate $10 million toward GOP campaigns, including Saving Arizona PAC, which is backing Arizona GOP Senate candidate Blake Masters.

Texas gets back the title for the biggest Buc-ee's in the world.

Volkswagen is "actively" looking to establish new assembly and battery facilities in the U.S., Volkswagen of America CEO Scott Keogh told CNBC on Wednesday.

Tennessee baseball is holding court at the top, but the rest of the Super Regional field required some reseeding. Here's how the 16 teams stack up.

Matchups are set for the NCAA baseball super regionals after No. 2 national seed Stanford, No. 3 Oregon State, No. 8 East Carolina and eight other teams won regionals.

The 17-year-old jumped off the waterfall into the swimming hole below.

Tennessee was right where it was expected to be Sunday night, celebrating an NCAA regional title on its home field and eager to continue one of the most dominant runs in college baseball history. The No. 1 national seed Volunteers, No. 4 Virginia Tech, No. 5 Texas A&M, Texas and Notre Dame closed out their regionals and advanced to super regionals beginning Friday. No. 6 Miami was the first top-eight seed eliminated, losing 4-3 to Arizona in Coral Gables, Florida.

Multiple people remain in critical condition.

Police say a shooting near a Tennessee nightclub led to three deaths and 14 people suffering gunshot wounds and other injuries.

Police say a shooting near a Tennessee nightclub led to three deaths and 14 people suffering gunshot wounds and other injuries.

The shootings in Philadelphia; Chattanooga, Tenn. and Clarendon County, S.C., left at least seven people dead and nearly three dozen others injured.

ESPN showed a Marlboro cigarette package in the Campbell baseball dugout during its NCAA Tournament game against Tennessee on Saturday, June 4, 2022.

A contractor involved in cleaning up the nation’s worst coal ash spill says workers' claims that they were sickened on the job should fall under a certain Tennessee law that limits legal challenges.

The woman jumped off a boat into the lake and never resurfaced, officials told media outlets.

Tragedy inside the Uvalde elementary school where 21 people were killed is raising new concerns and anxiety for teachers and students across the country. New York City 5th grade teacher Alyssa Unger joins CBS News Mornings to discuss what she is experiencing with her students.

Workers who cleaned up the 2008 Kingston, Tennessee, coal ash spill spent years working in conditions that they believe made them sick.

Police in Tennessee said six people were wounded during an exchange of gunfire in a downtown Chattanooga business district. At least one person of interest was detained shortly after the shooting Saturday night, police spokesperson Jeremy Eames said Sunday in a news release. Several gunshot victims were taken to a hospital and two of the injuries were life threatening, Eames said.

The shooting involved "multiple parties exchanging gunfire," police told a local news station.

On July 1, Tennessee will become the first U.S. state to make it a felony to camp on local public property such as parks.

Lorenzen Wright’s ex-wife will not be granted early release from a 30-year prison sentence she received after pleading guilty to plotting the retired NBA player’s 2010 slaying, the Tennessee Board of Parole said Monday. The board voted to deny parole for Sherra Wright, who entered a guilty plea in July 2019 to facilitation of first-degree murder in her ex-husband's killing. Sherra Wright appeared at a parole hearing May 11 at the prison in Nashville where she is being held.

Tennessee is about to become the first U.S. state to make it a felony to camp on local public property such as parks.

Miranda Atnip lost her home during the coronavirus pandemic after her boyfriend moved out and she fell behind on bills. Living in a car, the 34-year-old worries every day about getting money for food, finding somewhere to shower, and saving up enough money for an apartment where her three children can live with her again. Now she has a new worry: Tennessee is about to become the first U.S. state to make it a felony to camp on local public property such as parks.

Reproductive rights advocates are planning to open new abortion clinics or expand the capacity of existing ones in states without restrictive abortion laws.

The families of three Americans found dead on May 6 at Sandals Emerald Bay resort in Great Exuma, Bahamas, asked for a second autopsy, a report says.

Julie and Jimmy Johnson woke up to quite the surprise after a night of thunderstorms earlier this month. While they have three dogs of their own, the dog sandwiched between them was a total stranger.

Newly released records show at two least two people connected to a planned Tennessee execution that was abruptly put on hold April 21 knew the night before that the lethal injection drugs the state planned to use hadn’t undergone certain required testing.

"I roll over and me and my husband I lock eyes — and sure enough, it is not our dog," Julie Johnson said.

The families of Michael and Robbie Phillips and Vincent Paul Chiarella were mourning the three Americans who died at a Sandals resort in the Bahamas.

Lauderdale CountyCasey White, the dangerous murder inmate who bolted from an Alabama prison with his jailer, has told detectives that the lovebirds spent most of their time on the run holed up in a cheap Indiana motel and plotting where to go next.Casey White, 38, and Lauderdale County assistant director of corrections Vicky White, 56, were captured on Monday night after a dramatic police chase in Evansville, Indiana, just a five-hour drive from the Florence prison they absconded from 11 days ea

Officials say samples extracted from three tourists from Tennessee and Florida who died at a resort in the Bahamas under mysterious circumstances have been sent to a U.S. lab to expedite results and help authorities understand what happened

A video showed a Grace Christian Academy student wearing a pointy white hood.

In 2018, 29-year-old Francis Nayan left the U.S. to live in Budapest, Hungary. Earning $10,000 per month as a freelance copywriter, he says moving abroad was "the best decision" he's ever made. Here's a look at his monthly spending and what he does in a typical day.

The mother of Daunte Wright, who was fatally shot by a Minnesota police officer, was detained by an officer from the same department after recording another traffic stop arrest. (May 6)

The car was found in an impound lot in Tennessee, where it sat for nearly a week before authorities realized they had it, officials said Friday.

The card is part of the library's Freedom to Read campaign, which encourages autonomy in what Nashville residents read.

Reactions to the startling leak crystallized the red-blue abortion divide that would define life in a post-Roe world.

Neither plan went off precisely as expected.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is pausing executions for the rest of the year after the state failed to ensure that its lethal injection drugs were properly tested.

Grammy Award-winning singer Naomi Judd, who performed at the CMT Awards earlier this month, has died at age 76, her daughters Wynonna and Ashley Judd said on Sunday. The sisters said they lost their mother "to the disease of mental illness."

A Florida family is claiming that an Apple AirTag was used to track them during their visit to Walt Disney World.

Prosecutors said the police officer was trapped in the back seat and tried to subdue the driver.

The Republican-led Tennessee legislature on Wednesday passed a bill that would require public school librarians to submit to the state a list of book titles for approval, as a GOP lawmaker suggested burning those books that are deemed inappropriate.

The payments would continue until the child reaches the age of 18 and or has graduated from high school, according to the bill.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is declining to provide any new information surrounding why they had to call off the state’s first execution since the pandemic began.

Nearly 40 states ban the practice medical experts say is dangerous for pregnant inmates and fetuses. But many of those states have exceptions for public safety, and others have no laws at all.

Tennessee is set to execute its first inmate since the start of the pandemic.

Tennessee’s governor has called off what was to have been the state’s first execution since the start of the pandemic.

Cole Custer won the first pole of his career Saturday through a formula designed for qualifying via heat races at dirt-covered Bristol Motor Speedway.

Election security experts for years have urged states to replace outdated voting machines.

Carrie Underwood and Jason Aldean were the big winners at the CMT music awards.

Shipping giant FedEx Corp. says its logistics subsidiary has opened a new global headquarters in downtown Memphis, Tennessee.

The homicide conviction of a former Tennessee nurse for a medication error that killed a patient has become a flashpoint in the campaign for Nashville district attorney.

Severe storms packing isolated tornadoes and high winds are racing across the Deep South _ killing two in the Florida Panhandle and leaving scattered damage to buildings and homes in their path.

Severe storms including at least two confirmed tornadoes injured people, damaged homes and businesses and downed power lines in Mississippi and Tennessee.

Republicans are deciding whether to hold their presidential nominating convention in 2024 in Milwaukee, the largest Democratic stronghold in battleground Wisconsin, or in Nashville, Tennessee, a Democratic city in a GOP-controlled state.

Hailey Van Lith had 23 points and six assists, Emily Engstler had 20 points and 10 rebounds, and No. 1 seed Louisville held off Tennessee 76-64 in the women's NCAA Tournament to reach the Elite Eight for the fourth consecutive time.

Country star Maren Morris isn't taking a pop left turn on her new record “Humble Quest."

Michigan and Kentucky stood out in a study examining the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournament brackets based on graduation rates, academic success and diversity in the head coaching ranks.

Michigan booked the most surprising of its five straight trips to the Sweet 16 by beating No. 3 seed Tennessee 76-68 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

Three current and former members of the Tennessee National Guard are safe and accounted for, despite a Russian newspaper’s false report that the men were killed while fighting in Ukraine.

Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have confirmed a businessman to the State Board of Education despite a backlash over his company's online sales of ammunition used in mass shootings.

Japanese prosecutors have filed an appeal against the verdict in the trial of former Nissan executive Greg Kelly.

Tennessee Republicans are advancing yet another strict anti-abortion measure strategically written to sidestep federal court challenges.

The NCAA Tournament has some very interesting potential matchups in the second round, especially in the West Region.

Santiago Vescovi scored 17 points and Josiah-Jordan James had 16 points and 10 rebounds to help ninth-ranked Tennessee beat Texas A&M 65-50 to claim its first men’s SEC basketball tournament title in 43 years.

Kennedy Chandler scored 19 points, Zakai Zeigler added 11 and No. 9 Tennessee held off fifth-ranked Kentucky 69-62 in the final minutes to reach the Southeastern Conference Tournament final for the third time in the last five years.

The Nashville record store that was opened by Opry legend Ernest Tubb in 1947 will close as the building is being put up for sale.

Country star Maren Morris didn't want to make the leap to playing arenas this year after an extended time off from the road, saying she's trying not to overshoot too quickly.

South Carolina is still No. 1 in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll despite suffering its second loss of the season.

Gonzaga, Arizona and reigning national champion Baylor remained atop The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll.

Dre’una Edwards hit a 3-pointer from the top of the key with 4.2 seconds left, and the Kentucky Wildcats rallied from 15 points down to upset top-ranked South Carolina 64-62 to win their first Southeastern Conference women’s tournament championship since 1982 and second all-time.

Freshman guard Zakai Zeigler, whose family was left homeless by a fire in New York City last weekend, made two key free throws in the final seconds to help No. 13 Tennessee hold off No. 14 Arkansas 78-74.

A Medina County man was arrested in Tennessee and is charged with murder after deputies said he killed his mother and stepfather inside of their home.

Southern Baptist Convention President Ed Litton says he won't seek a second term in the top convention role.

Brooks & Dunn fans of San Antonio, it’s time to “boot-scootin’ boogie.”

Santiago Vescovi scored 14 points and Zakai Zeigler had 11 of his 13 points in the second half to lead No. 17 Tennessee to a 67-62 victory over No. 3 Auburn.

County music legend Willie Nelson has canceled two of his performances in San Antonio next month due to COVID-19 concerns.

The largest public power company in the United States is launching a program to develop and fund new small modular nuclear reactors as part of its strategy to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Freshman Azzi Fudd scored a career-high 25 points in her first start to help No. 10 UConn beat seventh-ranked Tennessee 75-56.

The winter storm that caused hundreds of thousands of power outages and contributed to hundreds of traffic accidents from Texas to Maine has moved out to sea.

A major winter storm has left about 350,000 homes and businesses without power across the U.S. The multiday storm dumped more than a foot of snow in parts of the Midwest and caused a tornado in Alabama that killed one person and critically injured three others.