The number of people who are getting unemployment checks because of the recent flooding is now expected to double original projections.

State health officials say there’s no evidence of any outbreak in illness stemming from last month’s flooding.

State lawmakers are trying to iron out what budget cuts to make are also considering a plan to create a new state department for intellectually disabled Tennesseans.

Since 9/11, Tennessee Guard soldiers have racked up 20,000 deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. The military is leaning on the Guard like never before in wartime. But many guardsmen aren’t just accepting the fate of certain deployments; they’re raising their hands to go. WPLN’s Blake Farmer has the story of volunteers in the volunteer Guard.

A state officials says there have been about 15 complaints, for everything from bottled water, to hotels and car rental, to pumps and basement drainage.

A panel of educators and state lawmakers are taking on a tricky question: how should the state evaluate teachers’ effectiveness when there’s no standardized data to show what their students have learned?

A jobs bill winding its way through Congress is giving Tennessee lawmakers a tough choice: create jobs or reduce the deficit. Matt Laslo reports from Washington.

The national office of Catholic Charities is calling for donations to benefit Tennessee flood victims. The agency is also pointing out the lack of giving compared to past disasters.

FEMA is helping flood victims by cutting checks for destroyed homes, whether they’re in Bellevue or Tent City. Homeless victims may not be replacing dry wall, but they still get money for the loss of their makeshift shelters that held bikes, beds, pots and pans. WPLN’s Anne Marshall and Kevin Bouldin have two stories of the road to recovery when your address is Tent City.

For the second time this week, a man on death-row is asking the state supreme court to commute his death sentence, after the state tried to set a date for his execution.