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State and regional officials are looking at new ways to increase the number of black professors at Tennessee colleges and universities, but a tough economy and competition in the private sector stands in the ...

Not even a month has passed since Election Day, but Tennesseans' eyes are already turning to the 2010 gubernatorial race, which has been a topic of speculation for months.

Cordell Hull was a veteran lawmaker with a worldwide reputation when Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him secretary of state in 1933, in part to win needed support from Hull's army of Democratic admirers.

By ERIK SCHELZIG, Associated Press Originally published 01:00 p.m., November 22, 2008 Updated 01:00 p.m., November 22, 2008 A look at top lobbying expenditures in Tenn.

More than 100 members of a Tennessee National Guard unit are back home for an early Thanksgiving visit before being deployed to Iraq.

Bridges McRae, former Memphis Police Department law enforcement officer, was indicted yesterday on one count of deprivation of rights under color of law announced Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting United States ...

Two of the companies have targetted the Memphis area. Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper has filed a lawsuit against a Memphis company that he believes is taking advantage of ...

Democratic House Majority Leader Gary Odom says Gov. Phil Bredesen is trying to hand-pick a new Democratic leader in the General Assembly's lower chamber.

In another sign of how hard the nation's economic meltdown is hitting the Southeast, unemployment rates ticked up across most of the region in October.

State's deer population rebounds from disease year Posted: Friday, November 21, 2008 7:10 pm NASHVILLE - The deer population in Tennessee has rebounded from last year as the first segment of gun season opens ...

MEMPHIS - A new federal study of the New Madrid Seismic Zone predicts Tennessee would see the highest level of damage if there is a 7.7 magnitude earthquake.

A mathematics professor at the University of Mississippi has been named the new provost and vice president of academic and student affairs at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, the school announced ...

Aunt B. on the implications of the excuses Tennessee Democrats are offering for the lose of the legislature: I know ita s more tempting to believe that Tennessee voted against Barack Obama than it is to believe ...

Tennessee officials say they were aware of the state's high premature birth rate before the March of Dimes gave it a failing grade and they are working toward higher marks.

Gov. Phil Bredesen may not be naming his preference for who should lead Democrats in the Tennessee House, but he is signaling that it isn't current House Majority Leader Gary Odom.

Tennessee's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in October dropped slightly from the 21-year high set a month earlier, even while the national jobless rate worsened.

Borrowing money to pay for bridge repairs could provide an economic boon to Tennessee, Gov.

NASHVILLE - Gov. Phil Bredesen said Tuesday he won't seek a hike in Tennessee's gas tax as a way to bolster the state's ability to build and repair roads.

If it's no surprise that Michigan lawmakers are behind the pitch for a $25 billion lifeline for Detroit automakers, then it might be just as predictable that Southerners would be leading the charge against it.

Rep. John Tanner, D-Union City, was elected this week as the president for the NATO Parliamentary Assembly during its annual meeting in Valencia, Spain.