The former head of BB&T's commercial operations has agreed to plead guilty to a federal bank fraud charge and will face sentencing on June 4.
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
Today will be sunny with a high near 75. The low tonight will be around 47.
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping several vehicles into the water as authorities investigated the cause of the collapse that cut off the state’s main north-south thruway and sent three people to the hospital.
GREENVILLE, Calif. — A magnitude 5.7 earthquake hit Northern California Thursday night that was widely felt across the region, but there were no reports of serious damage.
WALTHAM, Mass. — A year and a half before the Boston Marathon bombing, the man Tamerlan Tsarnaev called his best friend died in a grisly crime: He was one of three men found nearly decapitated in an apartment, their throats slashed ear to ear, marijuana sprinkled over their bodies.
ATLANTA — A metro Atlanta man has been found guilty of shooting his wife eight times outside their apartment.
MOORE, Okla. — Students from a suburban Oklahoma City elementary school destroyed by this week’s tornado reunited with their teachers Thursday and collected whatever could be salvaged from the ruins.
FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. — Two men were charged Thursday with six counts each of first-degree murder in last year’s slayings of three women, a man, a toddler and an unborn baby in what authorities described as a dispute over drug dealing.
Six people are in custody and charged with aggravated robbery after an attempted burglary Wednesday afternoon turned into a carjacking and a robbery spree, Chattanooga police said.
Volkswagen announced today it has produced its 250,000th Passat midsize sedan at its Chattanooga assembly plant.
PHOENIX — Jurors have deadlocked on a verdict of life or death for Jodi Arias in the 2008 killing of her one-time boyfriend.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — The parents of a Cleveland, Tennessee native, now living in Moore, Oklahoma, say they are grateful their son is alive. Twenty-five-year-old Jay Brown and his wife were in Moore when this week's massive tornado hit.
LONDON — A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations with a banned radical group, two Muslim hard-liners said Thursday.
