State News

A recently unsealed federal indictment in Iowa alleges a nationwide sex trafficking ring solicited customers on Backpage.com for prostitutes as young as 17.

A DNA registry for animals is keeping apartment and condo complexes free of errant dog droppings.

In spite of efforts to crack down on the state's prescription drug abuse epidemic, a new report shows that nearly 18 million prescriptions for controlled substances like OxyContin and hydrocodone were dispensed in Tennessee last year - a 23 percent increase from the previous year.

Gary Giordano, a man who was the sole suspect in the disappearance of a Maryland woman in Aruba, was arrested last week for indecent exposure after police found him naked with a woman from Tennessee in the back of his parked SUV.

Charges are pending against a man who Knoxville Police arrested shortly after three women were found shot to death in an apartment.

The dental health care for Tennesseans ranks among the worst in the nation, which has sent more patients to the emergency room and caused more adults to lose teeth to decay and disease.

Search crews have found the body of a 16-year-old boy who went missing in the Tennessee River.

A manhunt is under way after the police chief in the small town of Friendship was shot at a Dollar General store.

Country music legend Loretta Lynn is three years older than she has led people to believe, an age change that undermines the story she told of being married at 13 in "Coal Miner's Daughter," documents obtained by The Associated Press show.

An American woman who adopted a Russian boy and then later sent him back to Moscow on a one-way flight has been ordered to pay $150,000 and cough up an additional $1,000 a month in child support.