Latest Tennessee Headlines
All the headlines from our Tennessee Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tennessee Warned to Take Earthquake Threat Seriously
Sep 27 2010 // Cities and states have improved their disaster readiness since the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina, but authorities must keep stressing emergency preparedness to reduce complacency among the general public, retired...
Tennessee Suspends Roofer Who Promised Insurance Reimbursement
Sep 24 2010 // The Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors has suspended the home improvement license of American Shingle LLC, a company whose sales strategy officials say has involved representatives driving through neighborhoods and...
Tennessee Awards $15 Million for Highway Safety
Sep 17 2010 // The state has announced more than $14.9 million in highway safety grants to 291 agencies across Tennessee. The grants help fund speed enforcement, first responder equipment purchases, drunken driving prosecutors and child...
Keystone Insurers to Enter Tennessee Market
Sep 9 2010 // Keystone Insurers Group, with more than 215 franchise partners in six states, today announced it will expand into Tennessee early next year. The privately held company is owned by its employees and partners in...
Benson Takes Over at Tennessee’s Direct General
Sep 9 2010 // Direct General Corp., Nashville, Tenn., announced today that it has named Carey D. Benson, 59, former AutoOne Insurance Chief Executive Officer, as its new President & CEO, effective immediately. Mr. Benson takes over...
Authorities Say Tennessee Mosque Fire Was Arson
Sep 7 2010 // Federal investigators said Friday that a suspicious fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of a future mosque in the southern state of Tennessee was arson and offered a $20,000 reward for information leading...
Tennessee Mosque Fire Being Investigated
Aug 31 2010 // Supporters from across the country have called to give encouragement to a suburban Nashville mosque where a fire was the latest setback for a planned new building, officials said Sunday. Authorities told mosque officials...
Tennessee Accountant Banned from Insurance/Securities Business
Aug 25 2010 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) has revoked the accountancy license and CPA firm permit of Mark S. Riddle, and has permanently barred him from seeking an insurance agent license or any securities...
Tennessee Gov. Predicts Federal Aid for May Flooding
Aug 20 2010 // Gov. Phil Bredesen says Tennessee will receive a higher percentage of federal matching funds to cover costs due to severe flooding in early May. Bredesen recently announced that the state’s federal match will be 90...
Tennessee Gets Break from Downpour
Aug 20 2010 // The rains deluging Tennessee abated on Thursday but forecasters are predicting that the same storm system will bring more rain to the region over weekend. Officials in Nashville are making plans for evacuations and...
Tennessee Program Warns Teens of Highway Work Risk
Aug 17 2010 // The Tennessee Department of Transportation is working to keep teen drivers safe and will travel to Red Boiling Springs High School in Macon County, Wednesday, August 18 to present “Between the Barrels” to 230...
Tennessee State Senator Could Have Sentence Reduced
Aug 12 2010 // Former state senator John Ford could have his federal prison sentence nearly cut in half after a recent Supreme Court decision that weakened an anti-fraud law. The 68-year-old Ford is serving a 19-year sentence. A 2008...
Tennessee Opens Driver Reinstatement Center
Aug 3 2010 // The Tennessee Department of Safety is opening a new driver service center for reinstatement assistance in Memphis’ Shelby County on Monday. The center at 2516 Mt. Moriah Road is for the reinstatement of driving...
Army Corps Claims Actions Reduced Tennessee Flooding in May
Aug 2 2010 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has concluded its actions during the May floods reduced the Cumberland River’s flood crest in Nashville by 5 feet, but the agency suffered numerous communications problems during the...
Tennessee Reports Decline in Teen Driver Deaths
Jul 28 2010 // The North Carolina State Highway Patrol says it is seeing a decrease in the number of teen driver fatalities across the state. The patrol said on that it has investigated the deaths of 28 teen drivers so far this year....
Army Corps Report Claims Actions Reduced Tennessee Flooding
Jul 23 2010 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has concluded its actions during the May floods reduced the Cumberland River’s flood crest in Nashville by 5 feet, but the agency suffered numerous communications problems during the...
Tennessee Sommet Group Signaled Financial Stress Before FBI Raid
Jul 20 2010 // A payroll services company that had naming rights to Nashville’s arena gave off signs of financial trouble for several months before FBI agents raided it July 6. Sommet Group of Franklin, Tenn., is embroiled in a...
Tennessee Sees Few Citations Under Year-Old Texting While Driving Law
Jul 12 2010 // Police across Tennessee are writing few citations under the year-old texting-while-driving law. The statute went into effect in July 2009, allowing officers to write tickets to drivers they catch sending cell phone text...
Tennessee Court Denies Claim By Wife Whose Husband Burned Home
Jul 8 2010 // A Tennessee woman whose terminally-ill husband burned down his house in an attempted suicide is not entitled to collect under policies for the house and autos destroyed in the fire. The Tennessee Court of Appeals has...
Arkansas: Consumers Scammed by Insurer Face Claim Deadline
Jul 8 2010 // Arkansas Consumers who were scammed by an unlicensed health benefits company called American Trade Association Inc. (ATA) or its affiliates have until Aug. 31, 2010, to pursue a refund of money they paid for this phony...
