Tennessee

A federal judge quietly cleared the way to drop the minimum age for Tennesseans to carry handguns publicly without a permit to 18

The assailant, Audrey Hale, was under a doctor’s care for an undisclosed emotional disorder and was not known to police before the attack, according to the police

The dramatic, six-minute video shows them confronting and opening fire on the assailant, who killed three children and three adults at the Tennessee grade school

Supercells are going to become more frequent, according to a new study. These are nature’s nastiest storms, producing most damaging hail and killer tornadoes, like the ones that devastated Rolling Fork, Mississippi

The suspect, a 28-year-old who was killed by the police, had drawn a detailed map of the school, including potential entry points, and done surveillance prior to Monday’s mass shooting

The automaker says the assembly and battery plants will employ about 6,000 people with an investment of roughly $5.6 billion

The Peace Officer Standards & Training Commission voted to decertify Demetrius Haley, Emmitt Martin, Justin Smith and Desmond Mills on Friday morning

Grammy-winning artists took to stages this week, alongside drag performers and trans and queer singer-songwriters, to raise money for LGBTQ support organizations and to encourage fans to vote

The bill signed by the Republican governor makes Arkansas the fourth state to place such restrictions at public schools

The footage will be released to the public in the next several days

Kim Reynolds was expected to sign into law after it got final legislative approval Thursday

A gun rights group sued after a was passed in the state in 2021 setting the gun-carry age at 21, arguing that the age limit should be lower

If an athlete who becomes pregnant goes to school in a state with strict abortion laws and chooses to tell their coach, the coach may find themself in an increasingly difficult position

The ruling Friday from US District Judge Leonie Brinkema is a victory for the Justice Department and several states

Governor Tim Walz’s executive order parallels legislation awaiting a floor vote in the state House to make Minnesota a ‘trans refuge state’

Memphis plans to release on Wednesday about 20 hours of video and audio related to the arrest of the 29-year-old motorist who died January 10, three days after his violent arrest

Council Chairman Phil Mendelson announced the withdrawal of the law, which would have overhauled how the nation’s capital prosecutes and punishes crime

More than 4.6 million people are disenfranchised in the United States because of felony convictions, according to the Sentencing Project

According to the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association, 54 of the 89 tolling facilities that opened in the US in the past decade were for price-managed lanes

Gershun Freeman, 33, had “psychosis and cardiovascular disease and died of a heart attack while being restrained,” the Shelby County sheriff said

The system will threaten the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys with tornadoes as they move toward New England

As clinics have been forced to shutter in Republican-dominant states with strict abortion bans, some have relocated to cities just over the border, in states with more liberal laws

In some states, Republicans are considering exemptions to sweeping bans or looking at ways to prevent abortions besides trying to roll back the number of weeks during which the procedure is allowed

The homeless and those without electricity were at special risk from the cold, the weather service said

So far this year, at least 150 bills targeting transgender people have been introduced across the US, which is the highest in a single year, according to the Human Rights Campaign

Democrats elevated the state to the top of their presidential primary calendar, leapfrogging Iowa and New Hampshire

The governor in November directed the state prison system to undertake a “top-to-bottom” review of death penalty procedures