Authorities say they have identified the remains of 14 of the 16 people killed last week in a massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant.

Tennessee authorities say a cold-case investigation reveals that a sheriff who inspired a Hollywood movie about an organized crime-busting law enforcement officer actually killed his wife in 1967 and led people to believe she was killed by his enemies.

Police in Tennessee have arrested the man wanted for the killings of an infant’s parents, grandmother and uncle.

Police in Tennessee have charged a 23-year-old woman with assisting a man wanted in the killings of four people.

Tennessee authorities have arrested two men they say are connected to the case of four murdered family members who were related to an abandoned infant.

Authorities are searching for the man wanted for the murder of four family members in Tennessee.

The owner of a factory where six workers died last year in flooding from Hurricane Helene won’t face charges after a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation found no criminal wrongdoing.

Tennessee state authorities are investigating the company that owns a plastics factory where 11 workers were swept away by cataclysmic flooding unleashed by Hurricane Helene.

Video has been released of a fatal Tennessee traffic stop that shows a deputy holding on to the car’s steering wheel and being carried away as the vehicle speeds off.

Authorities say a student at a Tennessee high school fired at officers and was killed by police.

The agency states that in June 2020, authorities in Hamilton County Tennessee secured a warrant for John Westbrook, charging him with custodial interference. Most recently, on Feb. 23, 2021, a Hamilton County grand jury indicted John Westbrook on a charge of aggravated kidnapping in connection to the 17-year-old’s disappearance. The district attorney in Hamilton County said a sighting was reported in Fort Walton Beach on March 6. Authorities believe John Westbrook may have also traveled to the western United States with Daphne Westbrook. “And in recent weeks, evidence uncovered during the investigation into John Westbrook has led authorities to become increasingly concerned for Daphne’s wellbeing.”

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Latest on the Tennessee inmate Curtis Ray Watson (all times local):11:20 a.m. Authorities say a Tennessee convict suspected of killing a corrections administrator before escaping prison on a tractor has been captured. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said on Twitter that 44-year-old Curtis Ray Watson was caught Sunday. ___7 a.m.Officials in Tennessee say there has been a confirmed sighting of a convict charged with sexually assaulting and killing a corrections administrator, then escaping on a tractor. The Tennessee Department of Corrections says on Twitter that 44-year-old Curtis Ray Watson was spotted early Sunday in the west Tennessee community of Henning, where he escaped from the West Tennessee State Penitentiary on Wednesday.

Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped Wednesday from the West Tennessee State Penitentiary in Lauderdale County and is a person of interest in a homicide. (CNN) - An inmate who escaped from a Tennessee prison while on mowing work detail was at the home of a corrections official three hours before her body was discovered, investigators said. A manhunt is underway for Curtis Ray Watson, who escaped Wednesday from West Tennessee State Penitentiary in Henning, and is considered extremely dangerous. Hours earlier, at 8:30 a.m., corrections officers saw Watson on a facility golf cart at her home, the TBI said Friday. The West Tennessee State Penitentiary is in Henning, about 45 miles northeast of Memphis.

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