A judge's ruling that strikes down Tennessee's so-called guns-in-bars law won't bother some local restaurateurs.

Home decor and gift store Kirkland's will celebrate its grand opening this weekend in the Hamilton Crossing shopping center in East Brainerd. The specialty retailer moved into a 7,200-square-foot space at 2100 Hamilton Place Blvd., a spot formerly occupied by a tanning salon.

Women are slowly nudged into combat roles.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is looking into the death of an MTSU student who died after being arrested and booked into the Rutherford County Jail, according to TBI spokeswoman Kristin Helm.

Yes, we are in charge now,” said an Iraqi army soldier, Sgt. Salman Fallah Jassim, as he led a mixed Iraqi and American patrol through the saw grass of a dried-up irrigation canal, sweeping the ground in front of him with the long wand of a metal detector. “But we need help all the time.”

When three inmates, including one of Belgium’s most dangerous criminals, escaped from a prison near Bruges last month, the script appeared to be straight out of an action film.

As Americans struggle through a dismal recession, many are trying to safeguard themselves from what they fear will be even worse times ahead. They eat out less often. They take vacations closer to home. They put off buying new cars.

U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., on Wednesday issued a statement saying he will not vote to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as the next justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

It did not take long for anti-abortion leaders to realize that George R. Tiller was more formidable than other doctors they had tried to shut down.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is to be in Jerusalem on Monday for the first time in two and a half years to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak in talks that a senior U.S. military official said would be characterized by Israel’s growing anxiety over Iran’s nuclear program.