The top lawyer in Chattanooga, Tenn., has been exonerated in a criminal probe over his reported practice of contracting out some $15,000 in legal and secretarial work to his own…
A court-appointed lawyer who says she caught her client’s serious eye infection will be allowed to pursue her lawsuit against the prison warden who released the inmate for trial.
As a trusted ally of the civil rights movement, freelance Memphis, Tenn., photographer Ernest Withers marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and sat in on some sensitive strategy meetings.
After a record-breaking wait of more than one year, a Nashville, Tenn., attorney was confirmed by the U.S. Senate today for a seat on the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court…
The city attorney for Chattanooga, Tenn., is under fire, after a state auditor’s report criticized him for contracting out some $15,000 per month in secretarial and legal support work from…
A law firm is offering a reward of as much as $1,500 and urging the public to “Burn an Arsonist” in banners displayed outside its two-story building in the aftermath…
Videotape of a suspect’s confession that was broadcast on A&E’s true-crime program The First 48 can’t be shown to the jury in his capital murder trial, a Tennessee judge has…
Banning the longtime lesbian partner of a child’s mother from living in her home while her 15-year-old daughter is there is unnecessary and may not be in the best interest…
Benjamin Hooks, a minister, a lawyer and renowned civil rights leader who revitalized the NAACP while serving as its executive director from 1977 to 1992, died today at his home…
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