State News

Sentencing will be in February for an Army veteran who plotted with his wife to bilk the U.S. government by faking paralysis to get disability benefits and avoid being deployed to Iraq.

Gunfire at a Chattanooga playground where children were playing nearby left one man dead and another wounded.

Firefighters in Murfreesboro extinguished a flaming trash bin near Middle Tennessee State University, then found a body inside it.

Jim Stevens says he's not particularly religious and is clueless about why an image resembling Jesus Christ keeps appearing on his pickup.

Police have arrested an East Tennessee man after a woman said he pointed a gun at her when she refused his $100 offer for sex.

The attorney for a woman charged with kidnapping a Tennessee newborn says his client has tried to commit suicide since she's been locked up and that certain medications for her mental health are being withheld.

A Sullivan County man entered a last-minute guilty plea to reduced charges in the death of his girlfriend's toddler son and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

A man suspected of being a serial rapist has been indicted by a Weakley County grand jury for three separate rapes that occurred in Martin this year.

Federal, state and military officials are investigating the discovery of about 100 pounds of explosives in Montgomery County.

Tennessee is leading the rest of the states when it comes to the number of bankruptcy petitioners who try to repay their debts with court-approved repayment plans.