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Nashville television sports anchor Dan Phillips was fired from WZTV Fox-17 after he performed a Prince-themed sports “tribute” to his “favorite musical artist” on live TV.

Students at Jackson Central-Merry High School in Tennessee are learning more than they probably bargained for. They watched the torture porn film The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (THC2) in class.

Governor Sam Brownback says Kansas is withdrawing from the U.S. Refugee Resettlement program.

Kid Rock is “beyond devastated” after he discovered the body of his personal assistant on his property near Nashville, Tennessee on Monday following an ATV accident.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee–On Tuesday, the Tennessee General Assembly declared it will sue the federal government over its refugee resettlement program on Tenth Amendment grounds. The State Senate passed a resolution authorizing that lawsuit in a 29 to 4 vote one day

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam vetoed a controversial bill that would have made the Holy Bible the official state book.

Former State Rep. Joe Carr is challenging incumbent Tennessee Sixth Congressional District Rep. Diane Black in the Republican primary. The vote will be in August.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — The State Executive Committee of the Tennessee Republican Party approved a controversial slate of establishment-friendly Trump and Cruz delegates in a vote on Saturday.

According to WILX, authorities in Tennessee are investigating a woman for posting a photo of her two young children with duct tape over their hands and mouths on Facebook. Facebook user Jaton Justsilly Jaibabi uploaded the photo, along with the caption:

Many of the 49 delegates in Tennessee who are pledged to either Donald Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz will reportedly meet this month to seal a grassroots alliance in which they pledge their votes during any contested convention only to Trump or Cruz.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee—A resolution to sue the federal government’s refugee-resettlement program cleared a subcommittee hurdle in Tennessee’s General Assembly on Wednesday, amid strong opposition from left-wing groups, business interests, and the state’s Republican governor.

“You have a movement going on like we haven’t seen, they say ever in our country,” GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told a sea of sign waving supporters from an airport hanger in New Orleans, Louisiana on the eve of the state’s presidential primary election.

Minutes after the polls closed in Tennessee, several networks, including Fox News and CNN, declared GOP front runner Donald Trump the big winner in today’s GOP Presidential primary in the Volunteer State.

On the eve of his expected endorsement of Sen. Marco Rubio for president, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam is trying to surreptitiously bury a migrant-stopping resolution that was passed overwhelmingly by the State Senate on Monday.

The state of Tennessee is one step closer to filing a Tenth Amendment lawsuit in federal court to end the United States Refugee Resettlement program in that state.

Per a report by WMCAtionNews5, a Memphis, TN woman was accused of shooting a man and his pregnant girlfriend during a robbery that took place in January. Shelby Isaac,18, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder for what family

A new poll from Middle Tennessee State University shows Donald Trump holding a strong lead over second place Sen. Ted Cruz in Tennessee, which will be one of the states voting in the important March 1 “SEC Primary.”

The California winner who will share Wednesday night’s record-smashing Powerball jackpot will be exempt from state taxes on the winnings. At least three winning tickets for the record breaking $1.586 billion Powerball lottery were sold, and the California one has been tied

The former assistant Secretary for Communications to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan writes that Sen. Lamar Alexander’s enthusiasm for his “bipartisan” education bill – one that supposedly prohibits the federal government from mandating the Common Core standards – is “shamefully misleading.”

An exuberant crowd of more than 1,000 supporters greeted GOP presidential contender Sen. Ted Cruz at the Rocketown entertainment center in downtown Nashville.

Police in Nashville, Tennessee, have arrested a man and charged him with raping and nearly strangling to death a 60-year-old disabled woman.

Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Haslam is apparently off the list of possible plaintiffs—governors of the 12 “Wilson-Fish alternative program” states where non-profit VOLAGS, not state governments, run the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program—the Thomas More Law Center says it is looking to represent in a constitutional legal challenge to the program.

A Shelby County, Tennessee, high school teacher has resigned after police accused him of running a sex club as well as other offenses.

Police arrested a Nashville woman on charges of filing a false rape report in order to keep an affair secret from her fiancé.

A mindset that has gradually led American parents to leave the education of their children — unchecked — to schools and elitists has spawned controversies such as the promotion of Islam in classrooms and the unpopular Common Core standards.

Tennessee state Rep. Andy Holt’s (R) attempt to take a state-mandated test along with eighth grade students is over for now, being blocked by both the state department of education and the Obion County school district’s administration.

A Tennessee man, whom family members called “troubled,” was arrested for the brutal stabbing of an 88-year-old woman, police say.

An Ohio woman who was listening to an Amber Alert on the radio was shocked to find that the car that police were looking for was right in front of her

GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is focusing on the SEC Primary states by announcing his leadership teams across the south, starting with Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

After Sunday services, some 350 church goers made their way three blocks from the church building to the front steps of police headquarters on Columbia Avenue, where they were met by the chief of police and several on duty officers, who warmly received them. “I’ve met with dozens of police officers and federal agents in the last two months and heard from them how they have felt a increasing sense of danger and a loss of support from the community,” the church pastor tells Breitbart News.

A Memphis man has been arrested for knowingly infecting his wife with the HIV virus.

Middle school parents in Tennessee are up in arms on learning that their children were instructed to recite and write, “Allah is the only god,” as part of a world history project.

IRS agent Garza is scheduled to appear on Wednesday in Williamson County Court. He’s being held on two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure that allegedly occurred while he was on official IRS business, conducting an audit of a Fairview, Tennessee business.

The Dickson County School District has decided to ban all flags from pickup trucks on school property. Initial reports had incorrectly stated that the officials had banned all flags at the school, but the district corrected that impression with an email to FOX13.

On August 23, Marcus Henley and Maurice Harris were standing in front of Harris’s house when an armed man allegedly got out of a white SUV, walked up, and demanded wallets and other belongings. Henley shot the alleged robber, killing him on the spot.

The latest would-be ISIS recruits are a couple from Mississippi, 19-year-old Jaelyn Delshaun Young and 21-year-old Muhammad Oda Daklalla. According to an unsealed criminal complaint reported by ABC News, “The FBI says the couple planned for months to travel to Turkey in order to slip into Syria and join ISIS.”