The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether states can prohibit same-sex marriage without violating the constitutional rights of gays and lesbians.
The father and stepmother of a 5-year-old girl who died of water intoxication injuries in 2012 have been sentenced to 35 years in prison by a Tennessee judge.
For the first time, a federal appeals court has refused to recognize a constitution-based right of same-sex couples to marry, creating a circuit split and setting the issue up for…
A Tennessee lawyer initially accused of paying a 14-year-old girl for sex and taping the encounters has been sentenced to probation in a case that made the news despite a…
The Tennessean examined swipe-card records for judges in Nashville’s Davidson County and found that Chancery Judge Russell Perkins showed up more often than any of his colleagues.
The children of a slain Tennessee lawyer and his wife are interested in selling the couple’s property to house victims of human trafficking, according to a nonprofit group that would…
Voters retained three supreme court justices in Tennessee on Thursday in a hard-fought contest that attracted an estimated $1.4 million in television advertising.
Charged earlier this year with first-degree murder in the bombing deaths of a retired Tennessee trusts and estates lawyer and his wife, Richard Parker—the couple’s son-in-law—has agreed to a plea…
Police and a Wal-Mart in Maryville, Tenn., didn’t violate the Fourth Amendment rights of a veteran and his wife when a store employee interpreted the man’s comments as a bomb…