Tennessee

A fourth-grade teacher in Covington, Tennessee, has been arrested for allegedly raping a 12-year-old boy and befriending other young students online.

A trucker with a big heart knew exactly what to do when he found a man needing help in Polk County, Tennessee, on July 26.

The Tennessee special session called by Gov. Bill Lee (R) for the purpose of securing gun control has ended with no gun control laws adopted.

Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson (D) said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Republicans in his state House are attempting to turn democracy into “mob rules.”

Republicans in the Tennessee legislature are under pressure from Gov. Bill Lee (R) and other gun control advocates as a special legislative session for gun control convenes Monday.

Residents of Franklin, Tennessee, which sits south of Nashville, remain rattled after an illegal alien has been accused of raping multiple unconscious boys and filming the assaults.

Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety has launched a six-figure marketing campaign designed to pressure Tennessee state Republican legislators into supporting a red flag law during Gov. Bill Lee’s (R) special legislative session.

The lead detective in a case where an illegal alien is accused of sexually assaulting at least 10 boys revealed gruesome details during a court hearing on Tuesday.

Tennessee Republicans are demanding answers from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas regarding how an illegal alien, now accused of raping unconscious boys, was allowed to remain in the United States for two decades. 

An illegal alien, now accused of drugging and then raping unconscious multiple boys, had an arrest record that dates back nearly 20 years in Tennessee.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) says that a case out of Tennessee shows the “severe threat” that open borders pose to America’s children.

The man accused of filming himself raping unconscious boys whom he allegedly drugged is an illegal alien living in the United States, the Franklin, Tennessee Police Department confirms. 

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit temporarily reversed a lower court decision on Saturday, allowing Tennessee’s ban on “gender-affirming care” for children to go into effect while the appeal is pending.

The state’s Terminated Pregnancy Report found that the number of abortions performed in Indiana increased 13.3 percent from 2021.

Police are working to identify several children a 63-year-old man is accused of drugging and raping in Franklin, Tennessee.

Former President Donald J. Trump holds a nearly 50-point lead over Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in the Republican primary in Tennessee and comfortably leads President Joe Biden in a hypothetical general election match-up, according to a poll. 

Crowds descended on Sevierville, Tennessee, Monday to participate in the grand opening of the world’s largest gas station, called Buc-ee’s.

Rep. Mark Green is introducing a bill to bar Joe Biden’s HHS from abusing Title X funds to coerce pro-life states into supporting abortion.

The crash detection feature on iPhones, which is supposed to contact emergency services if it detects that the smartphone has been in a car accident, has been implicated in a dramatic increase in bogus emergency calls during the recent Bonnaroo Music Festival in Coffee County, Tennessee. First responders noted that false emergency calls quintupled during the festival, caused by iPhones that equated dancing with car crashes.

Josh Kiszka, lead singer of the rock band Greta Van Fleet, has reacted to anti-grooming legislation in Tennessee by announcing that he has been in a same sex-relationship for nearly a decade.

The baby boy was surrendered to the Baby Box at Knoxville Fire Station 17 just after midnight, approximately 30 minutes after his birth.

On Monday night, country music singer John Rich warned that Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) is pressuring state lawmakers to support red flag gun control.

Prosecutors claim a woman tried to hire a hitman to kill the wife of a man she met on the dating website, Match.com.

Caroline Reeves and Eddie Lamm, who were high school sweethearts in the 1950s, recently tied the knot after a separation of six decades.         

A Tennessee woman who went missing weeks ago during a road trip with her boyfriend has been located by authorities.

The distributor of Bud Light in Chattanooga, Tennessee, requested that a local venue called the Bud Light Stage be renamed the Ultra Stage.

A baby boy was left inside Tennessee’s first Safe Haven Baby Box early Saturday morning, approximately 30 minutes after his birth, according to the Knoxville Fire Department. 

Country music songwriter Wynn Varble has written hits for some of the industry’s biggest stars, including Garth Brooks, Trace Adkins, Brad Paisley, and Kellie Pickler. Over a long and prolific career, he has penned multiple No.1 hits including Darryl Worley’s 9/11-themed ballad “Have You Forgotten?,” which was a popular smash and a Billboard chart topper in 2013.

The Nashville Christian school that was attacked by a 28-year-old transgender individual on March 27, 2023, has filed a motion to block the release of the attacker’s manifesto.

A Tennessee high school teacher was pepper sprayed after taking a student’s cell phone away.

Republican lawmakers in Kansas, Florida, Montana, and Tennessee have moved to codify the definition of “male” and “female” with references to terms like “reproductive system” and “naturally occurring sex hormones,” amid the transgender debate that is sweeping the nation. 

Former President Donald Trump holds a considerable lead over other declared Republican candidates and potential rivals in Tennessee, according to a Vanderbilt University poll.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing Tennessee over the state’s prohibition on “gender-affirming care” for transgender children.

Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) tweeted Thursday night that documents left behind by the 28-year-old transgender shooter who killed six at a Christian school would be released “very soon.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is joining an amicus brief led by Tennessee filed in the New York-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that emphasizes Title IX legal protections for female athletes.

Pop star Lizzo performed in Tennessee with RuPaul’s Drag Race alumni in protest of the state’s recently passed anti-grooming legislation.