Tennessee

Defense attorney Jennifer Thompson said Samson wanted to apologize Tuesday, but suffered "incredible stage fright" and stayed silent.

Memphis police said none of its officers was involved in the shooting.

Employees at a Waffle House where four people were killed in a weekend shooting rampage wore orange ribbons, hugged each other and wept as the restaurant reopened. And a steady stream of customers came in to the Nashville restaurant Wednesday to show support.

Officials say a U.S. Navy plane crashed in the Cherokee National Forest in southeastern Tennessee.

Witnesses and police described a chaotic scene as a masked attacker armed with two guns shot seven people, killing one, in a Tennessee church before he was subdued.

The driver in a Tennessee school bus crash that killed six elementary school students in November wants a judge to offer him probation and dismissal of his case.

Court documents show that a 15-year-old Tennessee girl who was allegedly kidnapped by her teacher had endured months of abuse by her mother.

After being missing for more than a month, a 15-year-old Tennessee girl was found near a cabin in a remote part of northern California and the 50-year-old teacher accused of kidnapping her was arrested.

The father of a Tennessee teenager says the 50-year-old teacher she vanished with last month is "nothing but a liar."

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A set of Tennessee triplets delivered five months ago nearly broke the world record for being the largest ever born.