Provides the latest RSS feeds for Tennessee News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Knoxville News.Net http://www.knoxvillenews.net/ en-us Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:54:16 -0400 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:54:16 -0400 30 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Seniors were disproportionately among the hardest hit during the recent floods in Tennessee. According to the latest Federal Emergency Management Agency statistics, 41 percent... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37393577&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:40:00 -0400 Associated Press http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37393577&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Last month, the state was down 64,900 non-farm jobs from June 2008 - just before the start of the economic meltdown - with construction and manufacturing taking the brunt of the loss. Improvement, to ... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37393578&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:39:59 -0400 Associated Press http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37393578&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Seniors were disproportionately among the hardest hit during the recent floods in Tennessee. According to the latest Federal Emergency Management Agency statistics, 41% of thos... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37393575&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:16:34 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37393575&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - If the recession is easing its grip on Mississippi, employment figures are doing a good job of hiding it. Last month, the state was down 64,900 non-farm jobs from June 2008 - ju... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37393576&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:16:31 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37393576&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 About half of Tennessee's public school students failed to meet state academic standards this year, the result of a more rigorous curriculum, harder exams and tougher grading. The dismal results didn... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37389658&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:46:00 -0400 WBIR http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37389658&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 In response to Mayor Karl Dean's request in May for an audit of police crime statistics, Metro auditors have hired a California-based company with no prior clients to help figure out if the department... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37387249&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:08:40 -0400 The Tennessean http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37387249&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Another 14-year-old boy was charged with murder Thursday night in the July 8 fatal shooting of Vincent Lewis outside a Sixth Avenue North apartment building in Salemtown. http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37387412&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:08:37 -0400 The Tennessean http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37387412&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Longtime Nashville attorney William "Bill" Willis Jr., known as a civic leader and a fierce advocate of the First Amendment, died Friday morning at age 78. http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37387421&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:08:30 -0400 The Tennessean http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37387421&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 M EMPHIS, Tenn. — Public memorial services will be Wednesday at FedExForum in Memphis for ex-NBA player Lorenzen Wright. The services were announced Friday by the Memphis Grizzlies. Wright, of ... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37386335&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:30:56 -0400 Boston Herald http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37386335&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Arthur Gareth Milks Nashville, TN-- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Friday added an escaped prisoner to its Top Ten Most Wanted list. Authorities believe the inmate may be in Alabama or Florid... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37384630&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:24:50 -0400 Eyewitness News http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37384630&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 The Kansas City Chiefs confirmed Friday they signed the star safety from Tennessee, about nine hours after he said on his Twitter account that he'd come to terms. http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37385194&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:38:34 -0400 Associated Press http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37385194&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 EL PASO, Ill. (AP) -- His executor says a Woodford County farmer who never married or had children has willed his entire estate, worth more than $1.5 million, to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37385195&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:38:32 -0400 Associated Press http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37385195&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Monday marks the beginning of Breast Feeding Awareness Week, and the organization behind it is trying to bring attention to a little-known provision in the Health Care Reform ... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37385189&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:13:32 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37385189&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 FRANKLIN, Tenn. - A suspected drunk driver was arrested after crashing his vehicle three times in Franklin Thursday night. Police say James Tomlin, 58, hit a vehicle at Hillsboro Road and Del Rio Pik... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37385191&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:13:29 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37385191&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 DECHERD, Tenn. – After 72 years of government service, a Franklin County postal carrier is finally ready to retire. For the past 37 years, Mancel Prince delivered mail in Decherd, Tennessee. "... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37385192&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:13:26 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37385192&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Local emergency officials hope a new program will help save lives. Friday, the city of Nashville launched the Smart911 program online. It allows people to submit medical inf... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37385193&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:13:22 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37385193&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Arthur Gareth Milks Nashville, TN-- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Friday added an escaped prisoner to its Top Ten Most Wanted list. Authorities believe the inmate may be in Alabama or Florid... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37382872&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:19:42 -0400 Eyewitness News http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37382872&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Coyote spotted several times in Midtown Coyote seen eating neighborhood cat Saturday Neighbors taking precautions (Memphis 7/30/10) Neighbors in Midtown say a roaming coyote has snatched up pets an... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37382874&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:31:04 -0400 News 3 http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37382874&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 News emerging about mysterious visit to Sherra Wright's home Attorney says men had guns in their waistbands She says they threatened Sherra not to talk about the visit tom.powell@wreg.com twitter.... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37382873&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:31:01 -0400 News 3 http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37382873&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 PHOENIX (AP) - A delegation of Republican legislators from Tennessee visited their Arizona counterparts Friday, hailing Arizona's immigration law and saying they plan a version of their own. The Tenn... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37383361&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:07:11 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37383361&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Bellevue landowner once imagined his land would be covered by homes, but the May flood washed those plans away. Greg Jones said, "We're just too close to the river and when t... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37383362&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:07:03 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37383362&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Metro inmate already jailed for the shooting death of one Nashville man is now charged in a second death. LeSergio Wilson, 23, was booked Friday on a grand jury indictment chargi... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37383363&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:07:01 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37383363&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 UPDATE: News Channel 3 has learned Memphis police have questioned several people today about the murder of former Memphis Tiger and NBA player Lorenzen Wright. Those questioned include Wright's ex-... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37380536&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:17:59 -0400 News 3 http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37380536&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 SACRAMENTO - California Highway Patrol officials released video Friday morning showing Sacramento Kings basketball play Tyreke Evans weaving in an out of traffic as he allegedly raced a silver vehicl... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37380537&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:17:57 -0400 News 3 http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37380537&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge has sentenced a former East Tennessee doctor to 23 years in prison in a health care fraud and controlled substances case. A judge in Greeneville sentenced 49... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37381135&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:52:26 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37381135&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Corker says he will vote against Elana Kagan's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Tennessee senator said in a news release Friday that her acti... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37381138&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:52:24 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37381138&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Training camp for the Tennessee Titans begins Saturday at Baptist Sports Park in Nashville. There will be 18 practices that fans are invited to attend for free. On Saturday, ... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37381140&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:52:13 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37381140&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 By BILL THEOBALD Gannett Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - Republican candidates trying to capture two open House seats in Tennessee have spent an unprecedented $7 million so far, according to the late... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37377299&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:07:28 -0400 WBIR http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37377299&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Arthur Gareth Milks Nashville, TN-- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Friday added an escaped prisoner to its Top Ten Most Wanted list. Authorities believe the inmate may be in Alabama or Florid... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37377296&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:52:06 -0400 Eyewitness News http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37377296&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- A forester working in East Tennessee discovered what is likely the first thousand canker disease in black walnut trees in the eastern United States, state agriculture offici... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37378035&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:00:39 -0400 Associated Press http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37378035&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Tennessee Tech University has received its largest ever gift — $4 million — which will be used for its School of Nursing. Larry Hester made the donation to honor his wife, Jean Whitson He... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37376161&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:45:01 -0400 Business Journal http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37376161&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) - A Johnson City man is jailed on charges of hitting two men with a metal bar stool during a fight. Police said 27-year-old Anthony L. Phillips is accused of aggravated assau... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37378034&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:30:49 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37378034&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff will return to a mostly smoke-free campus this semester. Beginning August 1, smoking on the academic campus will only be allowed in des... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37378032&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:30:38 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37378032&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport officials say they weren't surprised when their airport's fares were recently ranked amongst the highest in the nation. http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374832&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:45:57 -0400 WBIR http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374832&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Titans and USA Football are giving $50,000 in equipment grants to Nashville area football programs that had equipment and fields damaged by flooding in May. http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374833&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:35:46 -0400 Associated Press http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374833&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 ( Little Rock, AR 7/30/2010) Lawyers for a doctor accused of masterminding a bombing that disfigured the chairman of the Arkansas Medical Board opened their defense Friday, hoping to show that prosecu... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374154&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:34:45 -0400 News 3 http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374154&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Prosecutors in Memphis say a grand jury has returned more indictments resulting from an investigation into allegations of voter fraud during a 2006 elections in Shelby Coun... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374155&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:34:42 -0400 News 3 http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374155&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Parents are feeling the heat of the District Attorney's office effort to keep kids in school and lower crime in Memphis School doesn't even start back until the week after next But some parents learne... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374156&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:34:39 -0400 News 3 http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374156&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 More Democrat voters in Shelby County over Republicans Reports are many Republicans are voting early Concerns by some Democrats concerning how this will affect county candidates (Memphis 7/30/2010) S... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374157&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:34:36 -0400 News 3 http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374157&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 "); jQuery('#sendemailclick').attr('value','Processing...'); jQuery('#sendemailclick').attr('disabled','disabled'); jQuery('#sendemailclick').attr('readonly','readonly'); return true; } // post-... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374207&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:13:06 -0400 Nashville Business Journal http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374207&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. According to Brunswick’s news release, production of Triton fiberglass boats will relocate from Ashland City to Flippin, Ark. Lund fiberglass manufacturi... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374208&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:13:01 -0400 Nashville Business Journal http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374208&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A search committee has recommended that Deputy Gov. John Morgan be the next chancellor of the Tennessee Board of Regents. The committee interviewed Morgan on Friday and minute... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374831&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:05:52 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374831&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 SPRING HILL, Tenn. (AP) - United Auto Workers leaders in Tennessee say the manager of General Motors' Spring Hill plant that laid off thousands of workers last year has turned down 50 new GM jobs. In... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374829&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:05:47 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374829&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An attorney for an adoption agency says a Russian boy who was sent back to Moscow by his American adoptive mother has been placed back in an orphanage. Larry Crain, a lawyer... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374828&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:05:45 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374828&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A judge in Knoxville has sentenced Vanessa Coleman to 53 years in prison in the kidnapping, rape and murder of 21-year-old Channon Christian. Coleman was the last of 4 people ... http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374827&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:05:42 -0400 WKRN Nashville http://feeds.knoxvillenews.net/?rid=37374827&cat=209dc06dd4a5e0e7