A bill that would make the Holy Bible as the official book of Tennessee was approved in a legislative committee on Tuesday. The Senate voted 7-1 in favour of the bill.
A federal judge has awarded more than $2 million to the attorneys of gay couples in Tennessee. They helped the same-sex couples to win a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing same-sex marriage.
The controversial Bathroom bill that would require transgender students to use bathrooms that match their sex at birth is gaining momentum in the Tennessee legislature after passing in a House subcommittee.
The City of Rocky Top in Tennessee keeps its name after winning over a lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed by the song copyright holders where the name was taken after the iconic bluegrass song.
A manhunt was under way on Sunday in Tennessee for a parolee suspected of fatally shooting a Memphis police officer who apparently interrupted a drug transaction when he stopped to investigate an illegally parked car, police said.
The FBI still has not determined whether the suspect in the fatal shootings of five U.S. servicemen in Tennessee last week was radicalized in the run-up to the rampage, the special agent in charge of the investigation said on Wednesday.
The man suspected of killing five members of the U.S. military in Tennessee last week was in Qatar at least once during a 2014 trip to the Middle East, according to two U.S. government sources who said reasons for the stopover were still unknown.
Hours before the Tennessee shooting that killed five U.S. servicemen, the suspected gunman texted a close friend a link to an Islamic verse that included the line: "Whosoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, then I have declared war against him."
The U.S. Supreme Court's move on Monday to allow gay marriage to proceed in Alabama is the strongest signal yet that the justices are likely to rule in June that no state can restrict marriage to only heterosexual couples.
Children in Tennessee will have to get used to holding a pencil again next year when new cursive handwriting standards go into effect in schools throughout the state.
A 4-year old boy shot and killed Wilson County Deputy Daniel Fanning's wife Josephine, inside his home on Saturday. The deputy was inside showing his weapons collection to a relative when the officer's wife and nephew entered the room. The child grabbed one of his loaded guns off the bed and fired a single shot, hitting the deputy's 48-year-old wife, Josephine.
