Every time Anfernee Hardaway's cellphone rings, she's there in living color, her sweetness jumping off the screensaver.

Marc Gasol took long, deep breaths and carefully chose his words before answering questions.

Cost kept a larger percentage of Tennesseans out of the doctor's office from 2000 to 2010 than it did citizens of any other state, according to a new study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute.

A Memphis man convicted of raping an elderly woman after breaking into her home was sentenced to 90 years in prison this morning.

NASHVILLE — Despite a scholarship reserve fund of nearly $400 million, Republicans in the state Senate approved a measure tonight that will make it more difficult for students to win a full $4,000-a-year Hope Scholarship starting in 2015 if the lottery doesn’t produce record proceeds in each of the next three years.

A Tennessee high school student was arrested and suspended from school for allegedly bringing a paring knife on campus Monday.

Some sick students at Cordova Middle School who drank what they thought was lemonade received summonses to appear in Juvenile Court, according to Memphis police.

What bees really like is a hollow tree, but Tommy and Cristi Hill found during the weekend that a new Chevy will do just fine.

A South Memphis man has been convicted of raping a 79-year-old woman with Alzheimer's after the jury rejected his defense that the sex was consensual.

A Munford High teacher was arrested Friday for attempting to run his wife over with a pickup.

Memphis police on Sunday arrested a school bus driver accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl.

A 1-year-old boy survived a three-story fall from an apartment balcony on Mud Island over the weekend.

A 15-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to using smartphone applications to pose as a Memphis cop and access residents' credit card information.

Memphis police have charged one of their own, a 25-year-old officer, with having sex with a 14-year-old girl as well as sending her nude photos of himself, police officials announced Tuesday.

Clandestine agents feathered out across the country on Saturday, silently infiltrating the real-world places you shop in order to gather intelligence for online retail behemoth Amazon.com.

A pizza delivery driver told police that he drew his own .38 Special on Thursday night and shot a gunman who tried to rob him in Southeast Memphis.

Memphis-born Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain is visiting the Mid-South today, hoping his 9-9-9 tax plan will resonate with voters.

A man convicted this summer of breaking into a fairgrounds building and stealing several industrial-sized rolls of toilet paper was sentenced to four years in prison today.

When a man forced his way into the home of an 88-year-old woman three years ago, two other women from the South Memphis neighborhood rushed over and helped chase the man off.

A man accused of using a yellow “wet floor” sign as a weapon during a robbery found himself behind bars on Tuesday.

Three Memphis charter schools could be forced to close as early as this summer for poor academic performance, displacing as many as 1,475 students and sending shock waves through the city’s young charter network.

NASHVILLE — Gov. Bill Haslam said Wednesday that untaxed Internet sales are eroding Tennessee’s tax base and said he’s willing to take a leadership role among governors in urging Congress to pass a national approach to collecting sales taxes on goods sold over the Internet.

There will be no jail time for a 12-year-old Germantown boy who raped a 9-year-old neighborhood boy in the woods.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee has halted programs in Memphis and Chattanooga aimed at reducing infant mortality rates amid an internal audit.

Chattanooga Zoo officials on Sunday morning announced that the Association of Zoos and Aquariums will have "a progress recheck" in September, and meanwhile continues as an accredited organization.

The call of the wild was not for the mild as a Eudora, Miss., volunteer firefighter took matters — and vines — into his own hands to climb some 30 feet up a tree to free a trapped pileated woodpecker before some amazed neighbors.

A jury Tuesday was told the 2007 shooting death of University of Memphis football player Taylor Bradford was either part of a group's botched robbery attempt or the work of the planner who had a separate and lethal agenda.

Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi is negotiating with city leaders and the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce to locate a $200 million manufacturing plant at the Rivergate Industrial Port owned by Belz Enterprises.

Chattanooga police are investigating a body found at the Chickamauga Dam on Friday.

When the Tennessee Legislature convened in 1991, Republicans in the House considered boycotting the first day to protest being shut out of committee leadership positions.

By the age of 8, growing up in Memphis, David Strong knew he would one day preach the gospel. At 18, he was ordained in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Here in the shadow of Chilhowee Mountain, Memphis transplant Susan McGroom relishes her “slice of heaven,” yet worries over a budding real estate development backed by a group of high-powered investors that includes Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill Haslam.

Eagles one vote back of Trousdale

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Police are searching for the last suspect in last weekend’s Chickamauga drug bust and believe he is hiding in the Chickamauga area.

NASHVILLE — A search committee of the Tennessee Board of Regents today unanimously recommended former state Comptroller John Morgan to succeed retiring Chancellor Charles W. Manning as head of the state’s public higher education system.

Nine days on the “mean streets” apparently were enough for a 15-year-old Horn Lake girl, who turned up with no apparent injury late Thursday in Memphis and was back home with her family on Friday, said police.

A juror who got bumped from a trial for seeking medical advice from a doctor who had just testified won’t be held in contempt of court.

An amendment introduced by U.S. Rep. Travis Childers, D-Miss., was passed in the House that would diminish ebbs and flows in production and hiring within defense contractors -- including one in West Point, Miss. -- that manufacture mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles called MRAPs.

MEMPHIS -- Contrary to his sometimes-provocative image, filmmaker Spike Lee was an encouraging, even avuncular common-sense role model during a talk to 900-plus students and campus visitors at the University of Memphis.

A road to the Volkswagen plant, dubbed the "Yellow Brick Road" by some Hamilton County leaders, is on the fast track to link to the county's newest and greenest park.

Tennesseans who support or oppose the expansion of gun rights, or who fall somewhere in between, likely will find candidates for governor this year who share their views.

MEMPHIS — It turned out all the Tennessee men’s basketball team needed to regain its form was a wake-up call.

NASHVILLE — If a state is defined more by the myths, legends and folklore of its people than by lines on a map, Tennessee’s dictionary entry would take volumes.

There was a two-hour wait to reach the entrance of the Memphis-Shelby County Tire Redemption Program on its first day of operation.

A woman taking part in the St. Jude Memphis Marathon on Saturday morning collapsed after completing the half-marathon and was pronounced dead a short time later at Methodist University Hospital, St. Jude officials said.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Opponents of the BCS and advocates of a college football playoff are in for a treat Saturday.