Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Chemical Board Investigators Digging Into Fatal Tennessee Explosives Plant Blast
Oct 28 2025 // The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board is deploying investigators to Tennessee this week, now that federal ATF teams have completed much of their work at a military explosives plant that blew up Oct. 10...
Tennessee Plant Explosion That Killed 16 Was Preventable, National COSH Says
Oct 16 2025 // The blast that killed 16 workers at a military explosives plant in Tennessee last week likely could have been prevented with better safety measures and accountability, the National Council for Occupational Safety and...
16 Killed in Blast at Tennessee Military Explosives Factory Near Nashville
Oct 14 2025 // A blast in rural Tennessee that leveled an explosives plant and was felt for miles around killed 16 people and left no survivors, authorities said. The explosion left a smoldering wreck of twisted and charred metal and...
Family Killed When Tree Falls on Car in Flooding in East Tennessee
Aug 14 2025 // Heavy rain led to flooding around Chattanooga, Tennesse, where a family of three was killed when a tree fell on their car early Wednesday morning. News reports indicated that saturated ground caused the large tree to fall...
People: Farm Bureau Tenn. Names Pulley to Replace Retiring Pannell as CEO
Jul 25 2025 // Pannell Jeff Pannell, CEO of Farm Bureau Insurance of Tennessee, will retire at the end of the year after almost 40 years with the company. Pannell made the announcement at the company’s annual agents’...
Owner of Tenn. Factory Where Workers Drowned in Helene Won’t Face Charges
Jul 21 2025 // NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 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. First...
Former Tennessee Agent Sentenced For Continuing to Sell Insurance Products
Jul 18 2025 // A former Tennessee insurance agent who lost his license in 1999 but continued to sell insurance products has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Most of that jail time was suspended by a judge. Johnny Ray Jackson, 55, of...
A Look Inside the Tenn. Lab Making Advanced Fuel for US Nuclear Ambitions
Jul 17 2025 // OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — Near signs that warn of radioactive risk at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a half-dozen workers from the nuclear power company X-energy are making what appear to be gray billiard balls. Inside,...
NFP Acquires Tennessee’s Levine Group
Jul 16 2025 // Global insurance and benefits broker NFP announced its acquisition of Levine Group, LLC, a financial services firm based in Brentwood, Tennessee. Levine Group has been serving Nashville and the surrounding area since 1963....
People Moves: Tennessee Names New Insurance Examinations Director
Jul 10 2025 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance announced promotions to key insurance regulatory, emergency services and management roles. Bryant Cummings, with 23 years at the department, was named director of...
Multiple Injuries in Skydiving Plane Crash in Tennessee
Jun 10 2025 // Several people were injured after a skydiving plane crashed outside a small Tennessee airport, authorities said. The Federal Aviation Administration said a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter plane carrying 20 people...
TN Metal-Treating Firm Failed to Learn From Previous Incidents, Safety Board Says
Jun 4 2025 // A French-owned metal-treating company in Tennessee failed to utilize safety management and failed to implement lessons learned from previous incidents before a 2024 explosion that killed one worker and heavily damaged the...
People: FAIA Names Head of Professional Development; Madison Leads MJ in Tennessee
Jun 3 2025 // The Florida Association of Insurance Agents, the largest agent organization in the state, has named Greg Thomas director of professional development. Thomas Thomas was previously director of insurance agent and agency...
Greyhound Bus, Other Crashes Leave 5 Dead and Dozens Injured in Tennessee
Jun 3 2025 // Vehicle crashes across Tennessee in the last few days have left five people dead and dozens more injured. In the tourist town of Gatlinburg, seven people, including two pedestrians, were injured in a multivehicle crash on...
Authorities Arrest 100+ People on Tennessee Roads in Deportation Plan
May 12 2025 // NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than 100 people have been taken into custody by federal immigration officials in a joint operation with the Tennessee Highway Patrol, leaving many in Nashville’s immigrant community...
4.1 Magnitude Tennessee Earthquake Rattles Homes as Far Away as Atlanta
May 12 2025 // ATLANTA (AP) — A 4.1-magnitude earthquake in Tennessee woke up families and rattled homes as far away as Atlanta as it spread tremors across portions of the southern U.S. on Saturday morning. No injuries or major damage...
Feds Charge White Supremacist Over 2019 Arson at Tennessee School
May 5 2025 // NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A suspect whom authorities have linked to white supremacist movements has been arrested in the March 2019 fire that destroyed an office at a storied Tennessee social justice center. Regan Prater...
Texas Man Suing Tennessee Titans Player Over Shooting at Car Lot
Apr 14 2025 // A Texas man who says Titans cornerback L’Jarius Sneed or his personal assistant shot at him while he was sitting inside a Mercedes-Benz on a dealer lot in December is suing the two-time Super Bowl champ for at least...
Higginbotham Adds Agencies in Georgia, Tennessee to the Team
Apr 14 2025 // Higginbotham, one of the largest insurance agencies headquartered in Texas, has expanded its footprint in the Southeast by adding agencies in Georgia and Tennessee. The firm announced that Tidwell & Hilburn Insurance...
Tennessee Safety Agency Says Plastics Workers Were Given Time to Evacuate
Apr 7 2025 // NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Workers at an East Tennessee plastics company who died in flooding from last year’s Hurricane Helene had time to evacuate, albeit by “makeshift routes,” according to an...
