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TAKE THE HELM: Metro is searching for a contractor to manage its docks along both sides of the Cumberland River near downtown and Nissan Stadium. A procurement notice issued last week cites an expected increase in use of the docks, which provide access to Lower Broadway and the under-development East Bank. Docks are available both to recreational users and...

By the time Philip Workman was executed by lethal injection on May 9, 2007, Tennesseans across the state had seen his face and heard him speak for himself. During a years-long legal battle that saw him scheduled for execution six times, Workman — who was sentenced for the killing of a Memphis police officer during a shootout after a robbery — gave interviews to newspaper and...

A scandal that has rattled the world of contemporary Christian music recently took another turn in federal court.

In a 276-page defamation and antitrust complaint filed on April 20, Wes Campbell, co-founder and manager o...

TOO BUSY: Candidates have until Friday to qualify to run in newly redrawn congressional districts. Those who qualified by the original March deadline remain eligible if they plan to run in the same numbered district, and they can transfer their signatures to a new district by filing a notarized statement with the state coordinator of elections. New candidate...

On April 26, 1996, after securing the convictions of James Montgomery and Tony Carruthers for a triple murder, Shelby County prosecutors asked jurors to sentence the men to death. In making the case that the murders were “heinous, atrocious and cruel,” they highlighted a medical examiner’s grim testimony that the three victims — Marcellos Anderson, his mother Delois, and And...