State News

Kentucky has executed a confessed child-killer who resisted all appeals.

Clayton Homes, the country's largest manufactured housing company, has laid off 90 people at its corporate headquarters in Tennessee.

A winter weather advisory has been posted for the mountains of East Tennessee.

The finance chairman of former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson's failed presidential bid says the actor turned politician is abandoning a long shot bid to head the Republican National Committee.

A new federal study of the New Madrid Seismic Zone predicts Tennessee would see the highest level of damage if there is a 7.7 magnitude earthquake.

A West Tennessee school system has hired a consultant to monitor personal information of more than 200 students after a computer disk was stolen from a principal's car.

Additional criminal charges have been filed against two white supremacists accused of plotting to kill President-elect Barack Obama and dozens of other black people.

Tennessee's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in October dropped slightly from the 21-year high set a month earlier, even while the national jobless rate worsened.

Tennessee State University has blocked a racy gossip Web site from access on its campus server.

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. is closing its Memphis office and data center, leaving 250 employees without jobs.