When a newly negotiated deal for a Chattanooga Lookouts stadium was unveiled Monday, officials pointed to a $3 million up-front payment from the baseball team as an important concession as the City Council and County Commission prepare to take a new vote of approval on the $120 million project next week.
Polk County Circuit Court Clerk Melissa Keith was cleared of criminal wrongdoing after a grand jury decided not to issue an indictment in a case stemming from a Tennessee comptroller s office investigation.
Tennessee lawmakers are set to return to the state Capitol on Monday to begin their second week of a special legislative session on public safety, guns and mental health that so far shows little sign of resolution amid an increasingly bitter stalemate between Senate and House majority Republicans.
A Hamilton County Criminal Court judge on Tuesday ordered the babysitter for a Hixson toddler who died in 2018 to serve four years of state-supervised probation.
Representing state Rep. Justin Jones, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a letter to Tennessee Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton that Jones should be "fully reinstated" to all rights, duties and privileges of his office before Gov. Bill Lee s Aug. 21 special session on guns begins.