When Tennesseans enter voting booths this fall, they will see the expected races for governor and state and federal representative. After the list of gubernatorial candidates, they will also see three proposed amendments to the Tennessee Constitution, dealing with bail, property taxes and victims' rights.
This fall, the Banner sent out a community survey to ask what issues mattered most to you in this election cycle. This is the latest in our community-focused series.
Vanderbilt University has confirmed that the Vanderbilt Divinity School has been placed into receivership. Dean Yolanda Pierce and Deputy Provost Tracey George informed the current students and faculty in an email Tuesday.
After a medical examiner recanted his sworn testimony that her son Bryan Alexander was shaken to death and a recent Tennessee Supreme Court order, Kaye Maze is seeking a legal order asking Judge Steve Dozier to correct their original convictions and hold a new trial.
Mark Walton Fowler was once an execution doctor. Attorneys for Darrell Hines — who is scheduled to be executed on Aug. 13 for the March 1985 stabbing of Katherine Jean Jenkins at a motel off Interstate 40 in Kingston Springs — want to know if he plans to be one again.
For the time being, the Tennessee Department of Health has agreed not to report undocumented families enrolled in a program for critically ill children to immigration enforcement.
Since the state legislature passed the new congressional maps on May 7, the final day of the three-day special session, four lawsuits have been filed in state and federal courts challenging various aspects of that effort.
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On Wednesday, three individual plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against the Tennessee Highway Patrol and the troopers who falsely arrested them for driving under the influence on the highways surrounding Nashville during the summer of 2025.
The government has filed a response to federal Judge Eli Richardson's show-cause order asking for justification of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's ongoing detention of Nashville Noticias journalist Estefany Rodríguez.
