Catoosa Hopes to Reopen Soon After Closure Due to Traps

A state wildlife management area that closed last week because of dangerous vandalism says it’s hoping to reopen by the end of the month, in time for squirrel-hunting season.

Two men responsible for a meth-related explosion in the parking lot of a Nashville Wal-Mart have been sentenced to more than seven years in prison. Both pleaded guilty to their roles in a methamphetamine manufacturing conspiracy.

Governor Bill Haslam says he’s nowhere close to endorsing a candidate for the Republican nomination in next year’s presidential race. Haslam says maybe half the candidates have reached out for his support, but he’s not about to choose one.

The remains of as many as 11 soldiers thought to be from Tennessee have been found in Monterrey, Mexico. A developer ran across their shallow graves where they had been buried since the Mexican-American War. Local historians are now trying to fly them home.

New research conducted in part at Vanderbilt sheds light on the causes of Multiple Sclerosis. The findings are in the new issue of Nature.

Deadly tornadoes that swept across the south in late April are now taking a financial toll on the country’s largest public utility. The Tennessee Valley Authority just posted a $240 million loss.The three-month period was one of TVA’s worst.

A play debuting this weekend at Nashville’s Darkhorse Theatre revisits a controversy over public art depicting the events of 9/11.

Tennessee’s two U.S. Senators are asking the Environmental Protection Agency to temporarily relax rules over what kind of fuel gas stations can sell in Shelby County. That’s after a fire damaged the Valero oil refinery in Memphis, threatening the city with a fuel shortage.

A Tennessee company plans to start manufacturing garments domestically, countering what has been a 15-year trend of moving production out of the country.

One of Tennessee’s most prominent Republicans has been touring famine-stricken parts of the Horn of Africa with White House officials.