Tennessee

A new poll from the Beacon Center in Tennessee finds Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn is well on her way to the Governor’s Mansion in two months. Blackburn leads Democrat Jerri Green in the race to succeed two-term Gov. Bill Lee, with a 55 percent to 34 percent margin among likely voters in the Volunteer State.

Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) introduced legislation on Thursday that would end the 158-year-old federal ban on the home distillation of spirits, allowing adults 21-years-old and older to distill their own spirits at home in small quantities for personal use.

A teenager in Winchester, Tennessee, claimed she was defending her younger brother after she ran onto a football field at a middle school game and allegedly tackled a player on Tuesday.

Two college team cyclists were tragically killed during a training ride on Wednesday morning in Carter County, Tennessee.

Green energy companies funded the PAC that defeated Trump-endorsed Rep. Andy Ogles in Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District primary. With nearly all precincts reporting, former state agriculture commissioner Charlie Hatcher defeated Ogles by a 53-47 percent margin.

Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn won Thursday’s Republican primary to become the next governor of Tennessee, according to AP and Decision Desk. Blackburn defeated two challengers in the contest, Rep. John Rose and state Rep. Monty Fritts.

A poll this week showed Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) leading her state’s gubernatorial Republican Party gubernatorial primary.

An illegal alien who crossed the southern border under the Biden administration has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing 42-year-old Matthew Carney, the owner of Smokin Thighs restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, in a hit-and-run crash in June 2024.

A political action committee funded by clean energy investors is spending nearly $700,000 to support Republican challenger Charlie Hatcher against Trump-endorsed Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), marking the group’s latest effort to influence a Republican primary involving a House conservative.

A mother in Memphis, Tennessee, was arrested after allegedly shooting a 20-year-old man in the back of the head on her front porch Thursday morning.

The state of Tennessee has reportedly been courting David Ellison’s Paramount-Skydance as the studio considers leaving California.

A patriotic Tennessee Incline Railway conductor was fired for his Independence Day message to passengers after an offended tourist reported his comments to the company. 

An illegal alien who coached young boys in soccer in Franklin, Tennessee, has been sentenced to three decades in federal prison for raping many of the boys he coached as they were unconscious, all while filming the abuse.

Tennessee has implemented a new law that criminalizes illegal migrants following a judge’s decision to dismiss a pro-migrant lawsuit.

In her video to Breitbart News, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) reflected on the country’s “guiding principles” as it approaches its 250th anniversary.

This Father’s Day will be extra special for a dad whose biological daughter embarked on a long journey to find him when he had no idea she existed.

The Marshals Service has arrested an illegal alien who was on the run for more than a year after allegedly slashing his girlfriend’s throat.

A grand jury in Tennessee has handed down a formal indictment on a murder charge to former NFL linebacker Darron Lee.

A teenager who survived a deadly 2025 school shooting in Nashville has filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of an AI gun detection system that failed to identify the weapon used in the attack.

An AI-powered medication monitoring system failed to detect months of fentanyl theft by a nurse at Tennessee’s largest hospital in Chattanooga, according to state nursing board records that raise questions about the effectiveness of artificial intelligence systems used in hundreds of American hospitals.

A former police officer who was jailed after making social media posts attacking Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk and his organization after Kirk’s assassination in September received more than $800,000 in a settlement.

A rural Tennessee school board member who hugged a teenage girl and told her, “God, you’re hot” at a public meeting in April has been charged with assault.

Music executive Scott Borchetta, founder of Big Machine Records and the man who discovered Taylor Swift, was roundly booed by college graduates when he praised AI during a commencement address at Middle Tennessee State University.

An alleged intruder is hospitalized after a female homeowner opened fire on him Monday morning in Clarksville, Tennessee, around 1:40 a.m.

Most Tennessee House Democrats have been stripped of their committee assignments for “instigating and encouraging disruptions” in coordination with “paid protestors and attendees” and using “prohibited props and noisemakers on the House Floor.”

Five people were shot, one fatally, during a possible “drive-by” shooting at a pre-prom gathering in Brownsville, Tennessee, Friday evening. 

A special forces veteran wanted for second degree attempted murder was found dead Wednesday in woods “several miles from his home,” according to CNN.

The Tennessee manhunt for special forces veteran Craig Berry is nearly a week long at this point, and law enforcement warns that he is to be considered “armed and dangerous.”

A Door Dash driver was shot and wounded by an alleged carjacker Saturday at a Nashville, Tennessee, Walgreens before using his own gun to shoot and kill the suspect.

An infant was surrendered to a Safe Haven Baby Box in Nolensville, Tennessee, which was installed just last month. 

Republicans in Tennessee’s House and Senate passed legislation this week allowing the use of lethal force to protect property.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) signed a resolution designating June, considered “Pride Month” by some, as “Nuclear Family Month.”

The state of Tennessee is taking action where Congress has failed by voting to put a tax on U.S. dollars wired by migrants to other countries.

Tennessee officials voted this week to censure a colleague who told a student “God, you’re hot” at a recent public school board meeting.

A couple from Illinois recently tied the knot at an unlikely place that is known and loved by travelers all over the world.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel praised FBI officials in Memphis, Tennessee, for their work resulting in a decrease in “overall crime.”