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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Tennessee’s tax structure is designed to attract companies to the state by keeping business tax lower. Tennessee ranks 2nd in the nation in sales tax rate. Michael Kofoed, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Tennessee’s Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research,...

CLINTON, Tenn. (WVLT) - Anderson County School Director Dr. Tim Parrot wants to hand out bonuses to non-teacher staff to remedy Gov. Bill Lee’s “unjust and discouraging” private school voucher bonus system. In a letter earmarked for the county’s school board, Parrot proposed pulling more than $800,000 from other...

Federal officials on Thursday announced the formation of a Nashville-based Homeland Security Task Force to combat gangs, drug trafficking and transnational crime across Middle Tennessee. Dozens of federal law enforcement agents from the Department of Homeland Security, the IRS, U.S. Marshals Service, the U.S. Army...

TENNESSEE — Two people were killed in a two-vehicle crash Thursday morning in South Nashville, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. The collision occurred around 9:15 a.m. at the intersection of Trousdale Drive and Briarwood Drive. Police said 22-year-old Nicholas Moralas Gomez was riding a BMW...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A nonprofit called Youth Villages and the Tennessee Department of Children Services are teaming up to find families for the more than 450 children in state custody. Youth Villages said there are 459 children awaiting adoption in Tennessee. The average age of those kids is 14,...

In an interview with the Tennessee Firefly, Sexton said he’ll propose creating an associate’s degree program for future kindergarten through sixth grade teachers.

One Tennessee couple is focusing on feeding families in a unique way.

Days after thousands of Tennessee families lost monthly federal food benefits, Gov. Bill Lee announced he would direct $5 million in state funding to food banks. Lee said Tuesday that funding will come from savings accrued in TennCare, the state’s Medicaid program for the poor, disabled and elderly, and be...

Former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and his ex-chief of staff reportedly received presidential pardons Thursday, just weeks after being sentenced to prison for government corruption convictions, according to news reports. Casada’s attorney, Jonathan Farmer of Nashville, could not confirm the pardon Thursday...

Tennessee and Kentucky will be seeing showers, thunderstorms, and severe weather risk Friday November 7th. The Storm Prediction Center is indicating an area of severe thunderstorm risk centered over these two states. The risk in some areas is as high as 15 percent. This would suggest either isolated severe...