The Shelby County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the official cause of death for the people who were killed in an Orange Mound house fire.

A Memphis man who has admitted killing his wife has an earlier conviction for fatally shooting a pregnant girlfriend.

The Tennessee Human Services Department has laid off a dozen workers, months before the forced separations Gov. Bredesen said might be needed for budget reasons.

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis has chosen former Vice President Al Gore and civil rights activist Diane Nash as recipients of its annual "Freedom Awards."

A man whose threat caused the lockdown of a dozen Middle Tennessee schools is in custody and faces multiple charges.