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Most of us have a will as part of our estate plan that specifies how our personal property is distributed after we are gone. Think bank accounts, real estate, jewelry, household furnishings and other physical possessions. Your will can even bequeath that hideous burnt-orange sofa in the den to the niece who never calls but always cashes the birthday check.
A Tullahoma, Tennessee, man is set to spend more than 17 years in federal prison after being sentenced in the 2019 burning of a building belonging to the Highlander Center in New Market, Tennessee.
The race between Republican Marsha Blackburn and Democrat Jerri Green to become Tennessee's next governor may be in the hands of a third person — independent candidate David Hatley.
A Tennessee judicial panel dismissed a legal challenge of the state's private-school vouchers, finding that the constitution doesn't prohibit creation of the $260 million-plus program.
A Tennessee Republican senator says the Senate GOP caucus has "no basis" to expel her for endorsing an independent gubernatorial candidate as a Senate speakership vote approaches.
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The newest Tennessee state park, at McDonald Farm in Sale Creek, has its new name.
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Days after wastewater officials said they hoped to reopen South Chickamauga Creek to recreational activities this month, a state filing related to a second sewage leak said it will be a year or longer before the creek is open again.
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A new federal program that expands Pell Grant eligibility to short-term workforce training has yet to add any approved programs in Tennessee.
Georgia candidates up and down the ballot are campaigning on an issue that has struck a nerve across the political spectrum: data centers.
Gov. Bill Lee made a universal voucher program into the centerpiece of his education agenda. The next governor — and perhaps as importantly, the next General Assembly — will determine if that program is expanded, scaled back or ends entirely.
U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche joined federal and state leaders in Tennessee on Friday to tout the record of the Memphis Safe Task Force a little more than one year after President Donald Trump first established the multi-agency crime-fighting force.
