Drivers in Polk County, Tennessee, this week have been treated to the above image on a roadside billboard, courtesy of Rick Tyler, a third-party candidate for U.S. Congress. According to the local Kiwanis, Tyler is the owner of a local restaurant, which I can only imagine will be seeing its business suffer in the…

Responding to criticism after his officers handcuffed and arrested school children as young as 6 for failing to stop a fight, a police chief in Tennessee said on Sunday he was “so sorry this incident happened,” Mediaite reports.

Notoriously hypocritical anti-abortion Congressman Scott DesJarlais, Republican from Tennessee (which is a Super Tuesday state), has endorsed Donald Trump, the Guardian reports. DesJarlais’s ex-wife and his mistress have undergone abortions either at his behest or as the result of a “mutual decision.”

The Tennessean reports that Rep. Stephen Fincher, a 42-year-old congressman representing Tennessee’s 8th district, will not seek re-election this year. In an emailed statement to the paper, Fincher declined to provide a specific reason for retiring. Uh oh.

Here are some recent allegations lodged against Tennessee State Rep. Jeremy Durham (R):

Tennessee attorney Fred Wortman apologized to his wife Staci on Tuesday for trying to kill her three different times, WMC Action News 5 reports. He was in court to accept a plea deal.

One small county in Tennessee is running out of money, and its Director of Schools has taken it upon himself to address the problem by closing all schools in the middle of the academic year, affecting more than 1,100 students. According to him, it’s all Obamacare’s fault.

A local judge in Tennessee has denied a divorce to a man and woman on the grounds that the Supreme Court’s recent decision on same-sex marriage means only the Supreme Court can decide “what is not a marriage, or better stated, when a marriage is no longer a marriage.”

Authorities have identified 29-year-old Vincente Montano as the man shot dead by Nashville police on Wednesday after attacking patrons of a Tennessee movie theater, WSMV reports.

Tremaine Wilbourn, the man accused of killing a Memphis police officer on Saturday, has surrendered to authorities, the AP reports. “I think he felt the walls closing in and thought it would be in his best interest to turn himself in,” said Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong.

Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for 29-year-old Tremaine Wilbourn, the man believed to have shot and killed a Memphis police officer this weekend, the Associated Press reports.

Tuesday evening, the FBI identified 24-year-old Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez as the gunman who killed four Marines at a Chattanooga recruitment center today before dying in a shootout with police. Here’s what we know so far.

According to the Kingsport Times-News, a Tennessee woman and her sex/crime partner were arrested for aggravated assault last week after the couple allegedly attacked a neighbor who reported their noisy boning to police.

The Associated Press reports that outlaw country singer Randy Howard was killed on Tuesday in a shootout with a bounty hunter. The bondsman had come to detain the singer after he missed a court appearance.

Tennessee gun owners with handgun carry permits can now bring their weapons into nearly any park, playground, or sports field in the state. The controversial bill only passed after legislators agreed to remove the state Capitol building from the list of places where permit owners could be armed. Sensible, really.

Hip-hop artist Nelly, best known for his 2002 climate change anthem "Hot in Herre," was arrested in Tennessee on felony drug charges yesterday, thus confirming the St. Lunatic's continued existence well into the current decade.

For obvious reasons, tort reform advocates tend to focus on high-profile cases with punitive damages in the millions of dollars, but what about civil law as experienced by your average schlimazel*? Take, for instance, the case of Everett Chattman, awarded $2,400 after his mouth was fucked up by "excessively hard…

We periodically run letters from death row inmates. Today we bring you a letter from Donnie Edward Johnson, a death row inmate in Tennessee, who was sentenced to die for the 1984 murder of his wife, Connie Johnson.