Best Read Tennessee Headlines
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#1 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...
#2 Helene’s Flooding: The Human Toll on One Family in Tennessee
Dec 31 2024 // ERWIN, Tenn. (AP) — Jerry and Sibrina Barrett never spent a day apart over 35 years. They worked long hours, never took vacations, and liked to relax with their son at home. They had no idea that a hurricane could reach...
#3 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,...
#4 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...
#5 Insurance to Cover Part of Tenn. City’s $28M Settlement Over Botched Rape Case
Feb 19 2025 // (AP) — Leaders in Johnson City, Tennessee, have agreed Thursday to pay $28 million to settle a lawsuit that said police deliberately botched investigations into a suspect accused in civil cases of drugging and sexually...
#6 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...
#7 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...
#8 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...
#9 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...
#10 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...
#11 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...
#12 Tenn. Police Officer in Critical Condition After Crash in JD Vance’s Motorcade
Nov 17 2025 // Two law enforcement vehicles crashed in Tennessee on Friday night while supporting Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade, sending a police officer to the hospital in critical condition, authorities said. The crash in...
#13 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...
#14 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...
#15 Tennessee Gynecologist Charged With Unnecessary Medical Procedures
Mar 3 2025 // MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee gynecologist was arrested Friday and accused of performing unnecessary procedures on patients with re-used medical devices held under unsanitary conditions. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, 44, is...
#16 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...
#17 Pilot Error Likely Caused Small Plane Crash That Killed Family in Tennessee
Mar 10 2025 // NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A fiery small plane crash in Tennessee last year that killed a Canadian family of five was most likely the result of an error by the father, who was piloting the plane, according to a National...
#18 Tornadoes Kill 2, Injure 3 in East Tennessee, With Flooding in WV, Kentucky
Feb 10 2025 // WARTBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Two tornadoes moved through eastern Tennessee, leaving a mother and daughter dead and injuring three other people, officials said Friday. A mother and daughter from the same household were killed...
#19 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...
#20 Jack Daniel’s Parent Firm to Cut Workforce, Close Barrel Plant in Kentucky
Jan 16 2025 // LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Spirits giant Brown-Forman Corp. said Tuesday it’s reducing its global workforce by about 12% and closing its hometown barrel-making plant in Louisville. The cost-cutting moves come as...
