The Latest Breaking News from Tennessee

Like many large cities in the U.S., Detroit’s gun violence rate has fluctuated since the COVID-19 pandemic and the unrest after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. The city’s murder rate increased nearly 20% that year, meaning the city had the second-highest violent crime rate after Memphis, Tennessee, among…

Selling sex while HIV-positive will still be a felony.

Woman sentenced to prison for disrupting a health center, citing religious beliefs and past trauma.

The first of multiple trials has begun involving a Tennessee man charged with raping children to create pornography and accused in lawsuits of sexually assaulting dozens of women for years while police in his town did little to investigate him

The conservative blueprint envisions ‘a biblically based’ definition of marriage and wants to protect adoption agencies that only work with Christians

The city of Memphis, Tennessee, lost $773,000 in a phishing scam in 2022, but officials did not disclose the loss until a local media outlet asked about it recently. The city was making regular payments to a local construction company. "Following a request from who they believed to be Zellner…

Katori Hall brings nuance and passion to this story of four queer black men in Tennessee, though it won’t win any awards for brevity

Tennessee delegation backs Kamala Harris as Democratic presidential nominee after Biden's withdrawal. Delegates now free to vote for any eligible candidate...

Tragic incident in Humboldt, Tennessee, as a 12-year-old girl is charged with murdering her 8-year-old cousin over an iPhone argument.

The Ravens reportedly had a deal done for running back Derrick Henry in 2023, but Tennessee Titans higher ups overruled the deal

HIV-positive people who were convicted in Tennessee of sex work under a decades-old aggravated prostitution law will no longer be required to face a lifetime registration as a “violent sex offender” under a lawsuit settlement finalized this week