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Four people have died in two separate apparent drownings investigated over the last few days at sites just a few miles apart in Northeast Alabama.

Franklin County, Tenn., is just a few readings away from rules making pseudoephedrine-based cold medicines available only by prescription.

Jackson County, Ala.'s county administrator was fired Monday by a unanimous vote by the County Commission.

Jackson County, Ala., administrator Sandra Erickson was fired Monday for “gross neglect” as the county struggles with its budget, according to county officials.

MANCHESTER, Tenn. — The parking lot at the Walmart near the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival site in Manchester looked like a tie-dye explosion.

Like a return trip to the 1970s, the speed limit on 25 miles of Interstate 24 later this week will drop to 55 mph to improve safety for travelers during the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn.

State officials for the first time are lowering the speed limit on Interstate 24 to 55 mph starting at Monteagle, Tenn., and going north through the roughly defined Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival event area in Manchester to improve safety.

Sequatchie County, Tenn., voters will decide as soon as August whether they want a $20 wheel tax to help the county offset anticipated Affordable Care Act health costs estimated at $300,000 a year.

Middle Tennessee got socked by outside instigators who "hijacked" a public meeting last week, turning what was meant to be a step toward harmony into something more akin to a KKK rally, according to a member of the Muslim panel that sponsored the event.

What is it about Fort Payne, Ala., Mayor Larry Chesser's choices in wheels?

MANCHESTER, Tenn. — U.S. Attorney Bill Killian was greeted with shouts of "traitor," "serpent," and calls to "resign" or "go home" Tuesday night at an event aimed at improving relations between local residents and their Muslim neighbors.

The Southeast Tennessee Tourism Association wants to ride along in your pocket next time you go day-tripping across the region.

TULLAHOMA, Tenn. — Tullahoma's military tradition spans the Civil War to today as home to a U.S. air base and the Arnold Engineering Development Complex.

FORT PAYNE, Ala. — Little River Canyon Center officials envision a variety of activities on the stage of a new amphitheater being built on a hillside behind the facility.

It could take another week or so to complete repairs to a major leak, though water supplies should remain stable for customers in a large area south of town, Winchester, Tenn., utility officials said.

Rainsville, Ala., Mayor Nick Jones and town council members are discussing changing the way the city oversees its departments.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has announced the capture of a man who fled from the Meigs County Jail over the weekend.

Winchester City Council members have appointed a longtime former member of the panel to replace Cheyne Stewart, who resigned in April after he was convicted of attempted sexual assault.

State parks officials say their investigation into a Coalmont, Tenn., man's fatal fall from a natural bridge in a small park near Sewanee, Tenn., was inconclusive.

While two-wheeled competitors whiz almost silently through a Chattanooga road course this weekend, another world-class, bi-wheeled event will have competitors thundering up and down a treacherous Sequatchie Valley mountainside.

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.

Heavy weekend rains that continued into Monday closed schools, roads and left some people homeless across the tri-state region before finally relenting.

Sequatchie County, Tenn., school officials soon will add a multipurpose building to Griffith Elementary School that will house the elementary students' physical education classes and serve as a practice facility for the school system's athletic teams.

The first concrete span of the replacement bridge over the Tennessee River on U.S. Highway 41 in Marion County looks as if it's stretching to reach the other side.

A Trenton, Ga., man is hospitalized and two local bondsmen are free on bond after a shooting Thursday on Cherokee Trail in Dade County.

A state medical examiner has ruled the death of Sequatchie, Tenn., 3-month-old Colin Eugene Russell a homicide.

Tracy City, Tenn., officials will meet Friday to discuss a $300,000 loan that could be put with $1.2 million in grant money to fund major portions of an unprecedented townwide face-lift.

A Tullahoma, Tenn., father is behind bars and his 13-month-old daughter is hospitalized after the gun he was cleaning discharged and struck the toddler in the chest, authorities say.

A Tullahoma, Tenn., father is behind bars after a gun he was cleaning discharged and struck his 13-month-old daughter in the chest, authorities say.

A Warren County, Tenn., man's first-degree murder case involving a woman whose burned body was found near a Summitville cave has been bound over to the Coffee County grand jury.

MANCHESTER, Tenn. — At just 141 years old, the Coffee County Courthouse is in pretty good shape for its age.

Shaky economic times are sometimes more poignant in rural areas because help is often far away or hard to reach, said Bill Wolfe, pastor at Lee Station Baptist Church in Bledsoe County, Tenn.

When Jasper Middle School fifth-grade teacher Bobby McCulley is awarded the Tennessee Education Association's Distinguished Educator Award in a ceremony this afternoon, it'll be at the same Marion County school he attended as a student.

Former Meigs County, Tenn., sheriff's deputy Bradley Collins, charged in Rhea County in February with aggravated assault and felony reckless endangerment, was cleared of charges after a state review of the case.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has named 100 acres of land adjacent to Northeast Alabama Community College between Fort Payne and Scottsboro to its list of data center sites deemed "ready to recruit."

Plans to put a TVA high-power transmission line near South Pittsburg, Tenn., have stirred some neighbors to concern.

Regional transportation officials want the public to offer ideas for improvements or new services provided by the Southeast Tennessee Human Resource Agency at a hearing set for May 15 in Dunlap, Tenn.

There have been no charges filed in the "suspicious" June 2012 death of 3-month-old Colin Eugene Russell, who Marion County investigators have said died from possible brain trauma.

Summerville, Ga., received a chunk of $1.66 million in grant funding from the state Department of Natural Resources for development of its Willow Springs Trail between two historic sites.

Four of the elected officials in Dunlap, Tenn., are running for second terms Saturday, elections officials said.

Pikeville, Tenn., officials hope to gain approval for two new traffic signals on the town’s stretch of U.S. Highway 127 to slow motorists and improve safety, especially for school traffic on the south end of town.

The search for the fourth suspect in the March 24 cornfield slaying of Cowan, Tenn., resident Corey Matthews has expanded to New York state, authorities said.

Well, now I feel silly. I’ve been driving right past the Hickory Pit Bar-B-Que’s little log cabin restaurant in East Ridge for years and never stopped once.

Jackson County, Ala., municipalities have settled accounting errors in property tax disbursements that mistakenly overpaid the cities, including a $188,000 overpayment to the county seat of Scottsboro.

A 21-year-old Bledsoe County, Tenn., man died Wednesday in raging floodwaters in the Big Spring Gap area north of Pikeville, Tenn., authorities said.

One of two men at-large in the March 24 slaying of a Cowan, Tenn., resident was arrested Tuesday in Florida by a U.S. Marshal's Office task force.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is looking into the findings of an audit slamming Manchester, Tenn., for undocumented financial activity in police and fire department bank accounts, unaccounted for fundraiser money and mis

Franklin County, Tenn., authorities say one of the two men at-large in the March 24 slaying of 26-year-old Cowan, Tenn., resident Corey N. Matthews has been arrested by a U.S. Marshal’s Office task force.

Pikeville and the Tennessee Department of Correction are working on a deal for the city to operate the water treatment plant at the former Taft Youth Development Center property on the Cumberland Plateau.

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