Poor offenders pay high price when probation turns on profit
By ADAM GELLER and SHARON COHEN Tennessee (AP) — Outside the $200-a-week motel room that Steven Gibbs and his family call home, the afternoon sun sparkled. Inside, though, he had…
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Millions awake to more snow as blizzard barrels to the east
By JESSICA GRESKO and SETH BORENSTEIN Millions of people awoke Saturday to heavy snow outside their doorsteps, strong winds that threatened to increase through the weekend, and largely empty roads…
Former Sen. Fred Thompson, had TV and film roles, dead at 73
Fred Thompson, a folksy former Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee who appeared in feature films and television including a role on “Law & Order,” died Sunday, his family said. He…
Authorities: 1 killed, 3 wounded in Tennessee State shooting
By ERIK SCHELZIG One man was killed and three women were wounded in an on-campus shooting stemming from a fight over a dice game on the campus of Tennessee State…
VW: ‘Nothing has changed’ at Tennessee plant despite scandal
By ERIK SCHELZIG Inside Volkswagen’s only U.S. assembly plant in Chattanooga there’s little hint of the diesel emissions cheating scandal embroiling the German automaker around the world. Sparks fly off…
4 Marines and gunman die in attack on two military sites
By LUCAS L. JOHNSON and KATHLEEN FOODY A gunman unleashed a barrage of fire at a recruiting center and another U.S. military site a few miles apart in Chattanooga on…
Train derailment, fire prompts evacuation in Tennessee
A car on a CSX train carrying a flammable and toxic substance derailed and caught fire in eastern Tennessee, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people within a 2-mile radius.…
Governors: No clear plan if health care subsidies fall
By STEVE PEOPLES Millions of people could lose health insurance subsidies in the coming months if the Supreme Court sides with opponents of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. And…