A candidate who’s seeking to represent Nashville in Congress posted a photo of his gun and a pointed message for President Barack Obama on his campaign Facebook page.

Vintage car fanatics got a chance to drive their dream car down scenic roads, like the Natchez Trace, on Saturday during the Third annual Rally for the Lane fundraiser event for the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville.

Two children initially reported dead in a Bedford County house fire that killed their grandparents are now listed as endangered and missing after their bodies were not found in the ashes of their home.

NASHVILLE — Perhaps the only disappointment in Corn Elder's high school career at Ensworth was his inability to play well against Baylor. He injured his ankle against the Red Raiders in last year's Division II-AA state championship game.

Perhaps the only disappointment in Corn Elder’s high school career at Ensworth was his inability to play well against Baylor.

MURFREESBORO — A Portland, Ore., woman accused of raping her two children when she lived here more than 10 years ago could face more charges as a Murfreesboro Police Department investigation unfolds.

Joe Wauford was about an hour away from being released from the Charles B. Bass Correctional Complex after spending half of the last decade in prison.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Actress Ashley Judd will speak for Tennessee’s delegation during the roll call to renominate President Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention tonight, a state party spokesman said.

There aren't any white Protestants on the presidential ballot this year — a first in American history.

Gov. Bill Haslam didn't mince words in July when he testified before Congress about the revenue Tennessee was losing from consumers who didn't pay taxes for online purchases.

For the second time in less than 24 hours, an inmate died in jail Friday morning.

A Roane County man is facing an animal cruelty charge after a witness says he threw a dog from a moving truck.

Police Chief Paul West — the last officer working in the Coopertown Police Department — quit Thursday.

David Fowler, president of the Family Action Council of Tennessee, worries that too many people are on food stamps, and they are becoming dependent on government handouts.

David Fowler, president of the Family Action Council of Tennessee, worries that too many people are on food stamps, and they are becoming dependent on government handouts.

Congress is on pace to make history with the least productive legislative year in the post-World War II era.

FRANKLIN Two years after local attorney Judson Phillips failed to lure tea party activists to a rally in Las Vegas, a judge is ordering him to pay the bill for a slew of hotel rooms he booked for the event.

Jamie Hutchinson lives in Dickson but drives to West Nashville for her groceries.

Bill Crowder, owner of Midway Diner, a meat-and-three in Shelbyville, Tenn., was taken aback at the response he received after not buying a "proud sponsor" sign from the Walking Horse Trainers Association.

A Nashville based Christian blogger says this week’s Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day was a miserable failure for churches.

Smyrna Police have released the names of the two Smyrna children who were found dead Thursday.

A new study released by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation shows that crimes against the elderly is on the rise in Tennessee.

Three trips. More than 120 miles. Three hours with her daughter in the car.

Kenny Britt has looked the part of an NFL superstar, but the fourth-year pro hasn’t always played or acted like one.

Titans receiver Kenny Britt was taken into custody early Friday morning at Fort Campbell (Ky.) and charged with driving under the influence.

Updated at 4:50 p.m. A federal judge in Nashville has ruled a Murfreesboro mosque can open for Ramadan.

Tennessee women who lit up Virginia Slims and other cigarette brands in the 1960s and 1970s as acts of liberation are dying of lung cancer more often than women of earlier generations.

Two major Tennessee-based hospital chains are facing probes of their billing practices, while a third settled some charges by paying nearly $1 million but still faces an ongoing inquiry.

A tattoo artist helped identify a headless corpse found Thursday in a vacant field off Old Hermitage Avenue, which helped detectives quickly find the man they say admitted to the slaying.

SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. — A group of young men stand on a street corner, across from the Bransford Youth Center, near a house suspected of being a gang hangout.

Middle Tennessee’s drought has gotten worse, according to a report released this morning by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

A woman who was nine months pregnant crashed her vehicle in Clarksville early this morning and then had her baby shortly after being flown by helicopter to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Andrew Hamblin’s Facebook page is filled with snippets of his life.

Keith Dane, a Humane Society of the United States official and an outspoken critic of horse soring, is in the hot seat with his fellow Tennessee walking horse owners.

Eight of the last 10 winners of the Trainer of the Year award from the Walking Horse Trainers' Association have been suspended for soring at least once, according to data compiled by an industry watchdog group.

Terry Segars would have been out this Memorial Day weekend, having fun with friends on Old Hickory Lake.

In spite of efforts to crack down on the state’s prescription drug abuse epidemic, a new report shows nearly 18 million prescriptions for controlled substances such as OxyContin and hydrocodone were dispensed in Tennessee last year — a 23 percent increase from the previous year.

President Barack Obama has pulled into a virtual tie with presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney in traditionally conservative Tennessee, according to a new Vanderbilt University poll.

Her parents never saw a tick or any indication of a bite, but 7-year-old Kaitlyn Stetzer spent almost a week in the hospital with what doctors believe is Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Tennessee, in the past 10 years, has become a destination for women seeking abortions.

Yolanda Powers is willing to take a drug test to qualify for welfare.

Police arrested a man last weekend for getting into a restricted area of Nashville International Airport and getting on board an aircraft.

A Davidson County judge will have to sort out a bizarre series of events involving the parents of actress Reese Witherspoon.

CLARKSVILLE, TENN. — Two local parents are considering legal action against a fast-food giant after their daughter fell into a vat of grease steps away from the restaurant’s patio.

Susan Collier pleaded with grief counselors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center Wednesday after rushing there to see her son, who had been in a motorcycle crash.

A two-page oral sex encounter by an awkward teen at boarding school in the coming-of-age novel Looking for Alaska was deemed too racy by Sumner County schools last week.

WASHINGTON — If fundraising numbers are any indication, Tennesseans are about half as excited about the field of presidential candidates this year as they were in 2008.

The fans of NASCAR see rolling advertisements for erectile dysfunction pills and alcohol, but the logo for a new product by a Williamson County School District board member was just too risqué to appear on the hood of a car.

A Tennessee high school sophomore Jeff Shott has been awarded a $1,000 scholarship by an atheist group for dressing like Jesus Christ on the school’s “fictional character day.”

Gibson County High School senior Texanna Edwards was — like many of her classmates — looking forward to her prom last Saturday.