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A truck driver has been arrested after saying he would commit a mass shooting at a church in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities say in newly filed court records. Thomas Matthew McVicker was apprehended in Indianapolis before the plan could be carried out, according to court papers filed Monday. It’s the most recent case in a string […]

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Sex-trafficking victim Cyntoia Brown tied the knot with Christian hip-hop artist J. Long (born Jamie Long) while she was in prison serving 15 years of a life sentence. How the couple met remains unclear but we do know they have at least one thing in common, Long has also experienced life inside prison, as he was reportedly […]

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Armed officers and an angry crowd faced off after a Tennessee man was fatally shot by U.S. Marshals in a working-class Memphis neighborhood. People in the crowd threw rocks and bricks, with 25 officers suffering mostly minor injuries during the tense clash Wednesday night in the Frayser community in north Memphis. […]

A Tennessee high school student has been accepted in to at least 40 colleges and received more than $3 million in college scholarships. But, what makes his story even more incredible is that he managed to do it while being homeless. Tupac Moseley, 17, and his mother became homeless earlier this year. “After my father passed, […]

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A prosecutor said Monday that a black man charged with fatally shooting a woman and wounding seven people at a Nashville church aimed to kill at least 10 white churchgoers and cited a 2015 massacre at a black church in South Carolina. Nashville Deputy District Attorney Amy Hunter made the comments […]

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man convicted of killing his wife decades ago at a camping center he managed in Memphis prayed and sang hymns as he was put to death Thursday in Tennessee. Don Johnson, 68, was executed via lethal injection inside a maximum-security Nashville prison for the 1984 suffocation of his wife, Connie […]

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This story I have to share with you today is complex, and is changing by the minute. And it starts with a courageous young activist from Tennessee named Justin Jones. Young activists across the country are the lifeblood of change. They fuel every movement for change. Always have. They are the protestors, the demonstrators, the […]

A Tennessee woman will spend 12 years in prison after leaving a stolen gun in a Georgia hotel room and trying to cover up what happened when her 5-year-old nephew got it and shot a 3-year-old in the mouth. On May 28, Tashia Lenette Woods reportedly left the weapon, which was stolen from a gun […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The stars of the gridiron will meet the stars of Music City when the NFL Draft comes to Nashville, Tennessee, in April. The NFL announced Monday that Grammy-winning country star Tim McGraw will perform a free outdoor concert on April 26 and Grammy-winning gospel singer CeCe Winans will sing the National […]

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A man took advantage of a teen girl when she asked him to help her escape her abusive father — who she alleged had been raping her — and the man agreed, but only after she recorded video of the rape and send it to him. According to the affidavit, Bryan Rogers, 31, was in contact with 14-year-old Savannah […]

Bradley Watkins, a 36-year old white man from Tennessee, was recently arrested after reportedly harassing two Black children at a Family Dollar store. He allegedly tried to run them over while holding a gun, threatening to kill them and shouting racial slurs at them. According to Fox 13, one of the victims told the police […]

After reports that Cyntoia Brown would be released from prison came out thousands of people rejoiced! Jacque Reid goes Inside Her Story with two women who have been fighting for her for years, Ashlee Henderson and Brittney Pascal. Just before Christmas it was announced that Governor Bill Haslam granted clemency to a group of people, […]