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Farmers in Middle Tennessee say another week or so without rain could spell doom for many of their crops. Some fear the dry, 100 degree weather is an indicator of an oncoming drought, worse than the one in 2007.

Tennessee’s healthcare sector, particularly its hospitals, will be watching warily as the U.S. Supreme Court readies its decision on the federal health care law.

Men in Tennessee still have a way to go in improving their health, according to a Vanderbilt report released Tuesday. It showed Fs in cancer-related deaths but As in heart disease.

In an effort to highlight the voices of Republican women in Congress, Brentwood Congressman Marsha Blackburn has helped create a group called the Women’s Policy Committee.

Musicians in Nashville and beyond are paying tribute to banjo legend Earl Scruggs, who passed away Wednesday at age of 88.

The Tennessee State Senate passed an amended version of a bill that opens classrooms to debate that questions established scientific theories.

State lawmakers avoided taking up a bill yesterday the would bar schools from even mentioning homosexuality. While legislators put off the issue, more than 150 of the bill’s opponents stood and sat in the legislative hallways, watching and talking among themselves.

Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey says he’ll hit the campaign trail to get a proposed state constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2014. The measure would affect how judges are chosen in Tennessee.

After Matthew Shepard was killed in 1998, his name became a mantra for anti-hate crime legislation. Witnesses said the University of Wyoming student was targeted because he was gay. His father came to Tennessee’s Capitol Hill Wednesday to ask for more tolerance.