A Tennessee lawyer initially accused of paying a 14-year-old girl for sex and taping the encounters has been sentenced to probation in a case that made the news despite a…
The Tennessean examined swipe-card records for judges in Nashville’s Davidson County and found that Chancery Judge Russell Perkins showed up more often than any of his colleagues.
The children of a slain Tennessee lawyer and his wife are interested in selling the couple’s property to house victims of human trafficking, according to a nonprofit group that would…
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.
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