ARLINGTON, Texas — Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel ran for two touchdowns, threw for two more and had a Cotton Bowl-record 516 total yards as 10th-ranked Texas A&M wrapped up its first SEC season with a 41-13 win over No. 12 Oklahoma on Friday night.

KNOXVILLE — If this actually was the last Memphis-Tennessee game for quite some time, both teams made it one to remember.

CINCINNATI — The national Innocence Project is backing a murder suspect’s efforts to exclude from his trial a videotape of a dying man’s eye blinks, which prosecutors say identify him as the gunman.

NEW YORK — Police say a 51-year-old landlord who lived on one of Brooklyn’s trendiest corners was so annoyed by street noise that he placed hundreds of 911 calls of bogus tales, including a subway explosion, to bring police to the scene.

A Summerville, Ga., man was killed in a head-on collision on U.S. 27 in Walker County Friday afternoon.

NEW YORK — A lawyer for a New York City police officer in a cannibalism case says she thinks a New Jersey man was arrested on related charges to weaken his testimony for the defense at trial this month.

Two children were killed in a Murray County traffic accident Friday.

Arts & Sciences fought back from an 18-point deficit against Boyd-Buchanan late in the first half to pull even at 47-all in the fourth quarter before the Bucs regrouped and claimed a 58-50 win in District 5-A boys' high school basketball action.

The Howard basketball team went defensive over an eight-minute span and went on to defeat Brainerd 63-49 Friday at Howard.

NEWTOWN, Conn. — Nearly two years after being critically wounded in a mass shooting, former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Friday met with families of victims in last month’s shooting that left 26 people dead inside a Connecticut elementary school.

The Howard girls outscored Brainerd 12-3 in the final quarter to win 33-25. The Lady Tigers hit 6-for-8 at the foul line in the fourth quarter to claim the District 6-AA win.

PALM COAST, Fla. — At least three people were dead after a small plane crashed into a house Friday afternoon while trying to land at a central Florida airport, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Georgia redshirt junior outside linebacker Jarvis Jones announced this afternoon that he has decided to forgo his senior season and enter the 2013 NFL draft.

NEW YORK — Stocks edged higher after a report showed that hiring held up in December, keeping the Dow on track for its best week in more than six months.

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed the most sweeping food safety rules in decades, requiring farmers and food companies to be more vigilant in the wake of deadly outbreaks in peanuts, cantaloupe and leafy greens.

LONDON - Three months after she was shot in the head for daring to say girls should be able to get an education, a 15-year-old Pakistani hugged her nurses and smiled as she walked out of a Birmingham hospital.

WASHINGTON - It's official. A tally of the Electoral College vote affirms President Barack Obama's re-election.

Police responding to a burglar alarm at an East Ridge duplex instead found a fire and several broken windows today.

The House has overwhelmingly approved $9.7 billion to pay flood insurance claims for the many home and business owners flooded out by Superstorm Sandy. The vote came more than two months after the storm hit and days after Northeast Republicans erupted over House Speaker John Boehner's decision to delay an earlier vote.

When Miss Tennessee 1997 Lanna Keck visited a second-grade class in Tullahoma, Tenn., and placed her crown on Chandler Lawson's head, she did more than make a little girl's day. She inspired a dream.

U.S. employers added 155,000 jobs in December, a steady gain that shows hiring held up during tense fiscal cliff negotiations in Washington.

The ostensible reason for firing former Bradley County deputy Dallas Longwith was that he was seen mowing the yard in December, wearing only his underwear.

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MONROE, Conn. — The youngsters who survived the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary returned to class Thursday for the first time since the shooting rampage, settling in at their old, familiar desks but in a different school in a different town.

GATESVILLE, Texas — Jerry Hartfield was still a young man when an uncle visited him in prison to tell him that his murder conviction had been overturned and he would get a new trial.

WASHINGTON — Housing is rebounding. Families are shrinking debts. Europe has avoided a financial crackup. And the fiscal cliff deal has removed the most urgent threat to the U.S. economy.

LOS ANGELES — A California appeals court overturned the rape conviction of a man who authorities say pretended to be a sleeping woman’s boyfriend before initiating intercourse, ruling that an arcane law from 1872 doesn’t protect unmarried women in such cases.

Dale Smith said it's not unusual to see people coming to his Chattanooga dealership with 200,000-mile, 10-year-old cars who've been waiting to trade.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Bart Starr and Kenny Stabler never quarterbacked Alabama to a national championship.

NASHVILLE — House Republicans are exploring what they hope can provide a compromise in the ongoing fight between businesses and gun-rights groups over restricting employers from banning guns in vehicles parked on their property.

KNOXVILLE — When Jarnell Stokes steps on the Thompson-Boling Arena floor tonight, he'll see a very familiar name and color on the jerseys across the court from him.

A UT researcher has completed a first-of-its-kind study to predict heat waves for the top 20 cities in the eastern United States.

A Chattanooga robotics systems maker whose primary customers are in the auto industry has been bought by a global welding and brazing manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio.

Spring-semester classes begin Monday at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

The warm glow of the 75-watt incandescent light bulb soon will wink out.

A 46-year-old Chattanooga man's court date on charges connected to the death of his girlfriend was moved so he can either hire an attorney or have one appointed.

For Amy Blackburn, a photograph of moonshiner Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton exemplifies the heart of the Appalachian character.

Hamilton County is the latest local government agency to pull Chattanooga-made Passats into its car fleet.

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Notre Dame had been recognized with three national championships before the 1925 season, while Alabama was trying to establish itself as a Deep South power after being overshadowed at the start of the 20th century by Sewanee and Vanderbilt.

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Ask different people with connections to the long-running high school basketball series between Brainerd and Howard when the rivalry was at its peak, and the answers will vary from decade to decade.

These are new cases, according to court records, that were filed in the Chattanooga and Winchester offices of U.S. Bankruptcy courts Eastern District of Tennessee, Dec. 27-Jan. 2:

DADE COUNTY, Ga. — His wife thought he should just bulldoze it, but Luther Killian was salvaging what he could Thursday of the log cabin his family built just after the Civil War in Slygo Valley.

NASHVILLE — Interested in reporting cases of fraud, waste and abuse of public funds in Tennessee?

Everywhere Vonn Bell goes, he's being pulled, prodded or led. Not that the Ridgeland High School football star minds.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — If Alabama loses Monday night's BCS championship game, Crimson Tide football fans can still cling to their 2009 and 2011 national title paraphernalia.

Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment — "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican" — apparently doesn't apply to the Tennessee Republican Party.

While Central will host its invitational wrestling tournament Saturday, the Purple Pounders are still applying their game face for the rest of the high school season.

Taylor Palmer, Calhoun: She scored 15 points in the Lady Yellow Jackets' Region 7-AA basketball victory over Dade County.

To provide more adult learners throughout the state with a high school credential, Cleveland State Community College's Testing Center is partnering with GED Testing Service to offer the test on computer.

Although Congress agreed to extend federal extended unemployment benefits as part of the tax and spending package adopted New Year's Day, some unemployed Tennesseans may have to wait to get this week's benefits.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — No Southeastern Conference running back entered this season with bigger shoes to fill than Alabama redshirt junior Eddie Lacy.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Isabelle Harrison tied her career best with 18 points and set career highs with 14 rebounds and seven blocked shots as No. 12 Tennessee used a big second half to beat No. 18 South Carolina 73-53 in the Southeastern Conference women's basketball opener Thursday night.

CLEVELAND, Tenn. — The Cleveland Utilities Board officially has bid farewell to 41-year service veteran Rick Lawson, who served as the utility's manager of administrative services for the last 20 years.

Sometimes wrestling is as much about survival as it is winning. Often a team will have to do the first before it can do the latter in a dual-meet tournament.

Tennessee Senators Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander usually can cite some coherent, if labored, reason for the blatantly partisan positions they sometimes take.

Kudos, kudos! To Pam Sohn and Yolanda Putman for the detailed article (Dec. 30) on Tommie Brown, Ph.D. A real leader and giant in Tennessee's social work history.

A 14-year-old was struck by a vehicle after he darted into traffic on James Street in Rossville on Thursday evening.

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Oregon’s DeAnthony Thomas raced 94 yards for a touchdown on the opening kickoff.

Junior forward Ashlen Dewart of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga was the Southern Conference women's basketball player of the month for December after averaging 18.8 points and 7.3 rebounds as the Lady Mocs went 3-1 in the month.

On Tuesday, our U.S. senators — Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker — made a damning decision that could cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives.

Girls 1. Bradley Central (12-1) 2. Hamilton Heights (11-3) 3. McMinn Central (14-2)

HEADLINE: State Sen. Jim Tracy officially launches 2014 GOP challenge to U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais