Voters retained three supreme court justices in Tennessee on Thursday in a hard-fought contest that attracted an estimated $1.4 million in television advertising.
Charged earlier this year with first-degree murder in the bombing deaths of a retired Tennessee trusts and estates lawyer and his wife, Richard Parker—the couple’s son-in-law—has agreed to a plea…
Police and a Wal-Mart in Maryville, Tenn., didn’t violate the Fourth Amendment rights of a veteran and his wife when a store employee interpreted the man’s comments as a bomb…
Howard Baker Jr., a longtime Republican leader in the U.S. Senate who also took the helm at the White House and steered President Ronald Reagan into calmer waters as chief…
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has signed a bill into law allowing the state to use electrocution in executions if lethal-injection drugs aren’t available.
A Tennessee prosecutor has been reinstated to her job after alleging the district attorney assaulted her during a disagreement and fired her two days later.
Former TV host Judge Joe Brown was released on his own recognizance Monday evening after being jailed for contempt of court in Memphis on Monday afternoon.
Brown, who is running…
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Tennessee’s retention system of judicial elections does not violate the state constitution, according to a specially appointed state supreme court panel.
Corrected: Two Tennessee lawyers have been indicted by a grand jury Wednesday in an extortion case. They are accused of pressuring a client several years ago to pay $50,000 in…
A retired Tennessee lawyer who died last week after picking up a package bomb from his home mailbox and taking it into his house had defended the suspect in the…
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