Local/Regional News

NASHVILLE — A Maine man has been arrested on child pornography and other charges after he talked a McMinn County girl into sending him nude or sexually explicit images of herself, the TBI said in a news release.

Visitors who took whitewater rafting excursions on the Ocoee River last year pumped $43.8 million into the economies of the 30 counties that surround the river, according to an economic impact study released today.

An arrest has been made in the murder of a Cleveland woman in Raleigh, North Carolina.

WASHINGTON — State Rep. Joe Carr announced Tuesday that veteran political strategist Chip Saltsman is joining his 4th District bid to unseat Republican Rep. Scott DesJarlais.

Red Cross disaster team coordinator Michael Puryear headed out to Moore, Okla., Tuesday morning unsure of the scope of the devastation — emotional, personal and property — left by an EF5 tornado.

NASHVILLE — The majority of Tennesseans favoring an expansion of the state's Medicaid program is now 60 percent, but most still don't like the federal law that allows it, according to a new Vanderbilt University poll.

Local attorneys expect the U.S. Supreme Court to give a final "amen" to prayers in public meetings after the high court agreed Monday to hear a New York case.

Early on a December morning nearly two years ago, Robert Allen Atwood decided he was going to show his friend what his 1995 Camaro could do.

The sight may have been alarming for a child: Hundreds of dolls loaded onto gurneys and wheeled into the emergency room.

North Chattanooga Head Start/Early Head Start parents will ask area churches to provide English as a second language, behavior therapy and other services offered through their early childhood education program that is scheduled to close this month.

MOORE, Okla. — Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children.

Eleven men and a woman will decide today whether a 67-year-old Chattooga County, Ga., employee is guilty of molesting a 15-year-old girl more than four years ago.

As certain as the blooming of the poppies at Flanders Field in Belgium, the women of Pikeville, Tenn.'s American Legion Auxiliary Unit 66 will man their post at the corner of the Bledsoe County Courthouse Square on Friday.

JASPER, Tenn. — City officials and members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6362 are working to create an annual Veterans Day parade in Jasper.