Tennessee

Michelle Fiscus is accusing Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey of kowtowing to "a handful of outraged and uninformed legislators."

"Someone wanted to send a message to tell her to stop talking. They thought it would be a threat to her," Dr. Michelle Fiscus' husband said. "It was an obvious sign."

After "an x-ray revealed suspicious anomalies" in a shipment of peanuts, officers found that crystal meth had been carefully stuffed into individual shells.

Mark Herring chose the Twitter handle @Tennessee because he wanted to show support for his home state and that he loved the Tennessee Volunteers, according to his family.

An email to a health official about National Immunization Awareness Month read: "Per the Commissioner, no outreach at all."

Dr. Michelle Fiscus said communications regarding all vaccines for the state's youth has now been halted.

Courtney Mayes, who was the shift manager at the Taco Bell branch in Nashville at the time, has been charged, and more arrests are expected.

The officer was knocked unconscious after allegedly telling another wedding guest that he "didn't know they let Black people in the reception hall."

Dr. Michael LaPaglia, who was already on parole, is accused of allegedly clearing patients using antibody tests not capable of checking for current infections.

The billionaire Republican donor said he usually tries to stay "behind the scenes" and "keep it quiet" when donating to political figures.

First responders told Memphis police that they had discovered the elderly woman lying on a heavily soiled mattress on the floor of the house while covered in bugs, urine and feces.

The suspect, identified by police as 31-year-old Michael Williams, allegedly started banging on the woman's front door before breaking into her balcony and entering through her patio door.

The child was buried under items in the backseat of the 51-year-old grandmother's truck.

The 5-year-old girl was reported missing from her home in Tennessee on June 15.

According to a Facebook post from the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office, the bloodhound named Fred, discovered the girl on Friday in Tennessee's DeKalb County.

Della Marie Gibson Lathum, 37, admitted to police in April that she mailed packages with human feces and a letter containing a bloody sanitary pad, according to the Loudon County Sheriff's Office.

Anna Sandhu Ray, who married James Earl Ray while he was in prison for murdering the civil rights icon, was previously accused of animal abuse in 1996.

"It is security, so that is the one person that you trust in the building," a man said after an Amazon security guard allegedly sent herself money using his phone while he was in a job interview.

"When I read this, it didn't seem like their usual script, which is typically of poor academic quality," the school staff member who uncovered the deception wrote in an email to the superintendent.

The 16-year-old girl is in a stable condition in hospital after the incident in the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee.

"It's not your business to target children. It's your business to inform the parent that their child is eligible for the vaccination," she told the health commissioner.

Decherd Police Officer Matthew Ward has been charged with aggravated assault after he pointed his department-issued handgun at a driver and ordered him to get on the ground in Rutherford County, police said.

The body of Pamela Paz, 44, of Smyrna, was found on May 2 in a small parking area on Pennington Bend Road outside Nashville. A medical examiner said she appears to have been strangled.

Pike's attorneys have asked the Tennessee Supreme Court to recommend that Gov. Bill Lee commute her sentence to life.

The Tennessee Attorney General's Office has asked the state Supreme Court to set an execution date for 45-year-old Pike.

Ricky Dake, 59, of Monterey, Tennessee, was arrested on Thursday after officers initially found dead cattle back in February.

At Rhodes College, the fee is meant to cover the cost of weekly testing that unvaccinated students will have to undergo.

Billboards expressing support for country music star Morgan Wallen were seen around Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday night as the CMT awards show took place in the city without Morgan, who was banned following the release of a video showing him using the N-word earlier this year.

Payne has always maintained his innocence and his attorneys say he can't be executed because he is intellectually disabled.

Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn hit out at Anthony Fauci for writing a book during the pandemic, saying he wrote it while Americans suffered.