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The government paid nearly $2,500 for Sarah Palin's husband to come to the trial of a Tennessee college student who hacked into her email — even though Todd Palin never testified, court records show.
An electrician charged with falsifying inspection records at an unfinished nuclear reactor in Tennessee was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation and community service after he apologized for causing any nuclear fears.
Prosecutors described a frightening standoff at a Tennessee courthouse between law enforcement and an armed man who vowed to take it over in his quest to oust President Barack Obama. The man's attorney said he was just a "loudmouth" expressing his political opinions.
An attorney for property owners seeking damages for the Tennessee Valley Authority's huge 2008 coal ash spill told a federal judge Monday that the TVA's own records show years of negligent conduct preceded the disaster. A TVA attorney rejected that claim.
A federal court further limited lawsuits seeking damages from the Tennessee Valley Authority for its huge spill of toxin-laden coal ash, but the judge ruled that claims related to property damages and reduced property values will to go to trial.
In a July 3 story about the United Auto Workers and Volkswagen's new assembly plant in Chattanooga, The Associated Press erroneously reported the year that Nissan started operations as the first Japanese automaker in the South. Nissan started production in 1983, not 1973.
Chuck Hurd says he has been "hooked on venom" for years, a love for snakes that began as a boy when he collected them on his family farm and evolved into a profitable hobby. It never led him to trouble with the law until an acquaintance died from a copperhead bite.
Poor coal ash control practices and the Tennessee Valley Authority management culture led to the huge December 2008 spill on the Emory River in East Tennessee, the utility's inspector general said in a report released Monday.
General Motors is expanding production at its Spring Hill plant, recalling hundreds of idled workers to build four-cylinder engines.
The Tennessee Valley Authority will eliminate about 200 jobs, starting next year, as it downsizes coal-fired plants in Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama but affected employees will be offered work at other locations.
Volkswagen is requiring production workers hired for its new U.S. assembly plant to go through a fitness program on top of the usual job training, aiming to forge an "industrial athlete" who can lift, grip, bend and push without flagging.
Nissan North America Inc. broke ground Wednesday for a lithium-ion battery plant as part of a plan to build a five-passenger all-electric car, the Leaf, and create up to 1,300 jobs in Tennessee.
The Tennessee Valley Authority will permanently store onsite more than 2 million cubic yards of coal ash from a massive spill as part of the utility's second phase of clean up.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed regulating coal ash, possibly as a kind of hazardous waste, while phasing out wet storage impoundments. It would allow coal byproducts to be used in concrete, wallboard and other building materials.
The son of a Democratic Tennessee lawmaker was convicted Friday on two charges in the hacking of Sarah Palin's e-mail account while she campaigned on the Republican presidential ticket in 2008.
A federal jury has begun deliberating for a second day in the trial of a former Tennessee college student accused of hacking Sarah Palin's e-mail account when she was a vice presidential candidate.
The United States trails Brazil, Germany, Russia and some other countries in its rate of recycling aluminum beverage cans and Alcoa Inc.'s chief executive said Friday that needs to change.
The Tennessee Valley Authority's cleanup of a December 2008 coal ash spill at its Kingston plant has hit a snag 500 miles away, just before the treated wastewater reaches Mobile Bay.
Five hundred new jobs will be created at Volkswagen's supplier park that will be built alongside the German automaker's new assembly plant in Chattanooga.
Nissan closed on a $1.4 billion federal loan that will be used to build electric vehicles and lithium-ion battery packs in Tennessee, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said Thursday.
As the cleanup of Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston ash spill continues, the Environmental Protection Agency has suggested ways to move forward and what it could cost, but a key question remains unanswered.
Hundreds of people have sued the Tennessee Valley Authority ahead of a deadline for filing personal injury claims over a massive coal ash spill.
The Tennessee Valley Authority's top executive says changing the way waste is stored at its power plants should reduce the risk of another disastrous coal ash spill like the one that tarnished a riverside community a year ago. But he isn't offering any guarantees.
Environmental groups said Monday they want the Tennessee Valley Authority to be prosecuted for its huge coal ash spill in Tennessee and not shielded from penalties for polluting.
The Tennessee Valley Authority's huge ash spill boosted waterway pollutants at its Kingston Fossil Plant to 2.66 million pounds in 2008, more than the total water pollution output of the power industry nationwide the previous year.
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