Lawmaker Eyes Surveillance Rules for Police Drone Aircraft

The Federal Aviation Administration is preparing rules to let drone aircraft fly in the same air space as manned aircraft. But meantime, drones can still fly at lower elevations. And one state representative wants to make sure police in Tennessee don’t use drones for illegal spying.

State Representative Gary Moore, a Nashville Democrat, won’t run for re-election to his Bellevue district this fall.

A nonprofit that preserves Civil War battlefields is buying up hundreds of new acres to add to the historic site of Shiloh, which marks its 150th anniversary tomorrow. Thousands of men died and many more were wounded at Shiloh, which is southwest of Nashville, on the border near Alabama and Mississippi.

The Tennessee House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that gives some legal cover to gun-carry permit holders who get caught with a firearm on posted property.

Completing a nuclear reactor south of Crossville will cost TVA as much as $2 billion more than original estimates and take three years longer. On Thursday TVA executives gave a sort of pep talk to workers finishing Watts Bar Unit 2.

The Tennessee Senate has passed a new set of definitions for public school sex education, with the proposal’s sponsor agreeing that it will still be okay to talk about contraception in class.

Tennessee has one of the lightest tax burdens in the country, according to new research from the non-partisan Tax Foundation. The group calculates how far into the year people must work to pay off their federal and state taxes.

Teenagers have been some of the first to weigh in on a new community plan for Antioch. Planners say Southeast Davidson County has the city’s highest concentration of young people.

A bill to make marijuana legal – as a prescription drug – died a state legislative death today, but backers say they’re more optimistic than ever that Tennessee will eventually have medical marijuana.

Gas pumps in Tennessee will soon feature ads with the slogan “new law, no escape” as part of a statewide campaign against meth. The federally-funded awareness effort will also include billboards, a website, bumper stickers and radio.