Three freshman University of Tennessee football players have been charged with armed robbery. These three, Janzen Jackson, Mike Edwards and Nu'Keese Richardson, were among the first recruiting class for UT head coach Lane Kiffin.

Jesse Mahelona, a former NCAA football player for the Tennessee Volunteers, as well as a draftee of the Tennessee Titans, has been killed in a car crash in his native Hawaii. He was 26.

Another fine, upstanding, GOP legislator has an affair. Hardly seems like news, except there's plenty more where that came from.

The 10th annual Country Music Marathon & 1/2 Marathon was held in Nashville, TN today. 7,500 marathoners, 25,000 half-marathoners on a course that ran through downtown Nashville. It was exciting, but at the same time, tragic.

A tornado touched down in Tennessee on Friday, killing a woman and her 9-week-old baby, while another touched down in southwestern Kentucky, injuring two people and destroying homes.

On Sunday morning, at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, an unidentified gunman fired a number of shots with a shotgun, killing one person, and wounding at least six others. That person who started the Knoxville church shooting was finally tackled by two parishioners and restrained until the authorities arrived.

An exciting new journey is about to launch at the Tennessee Aquarium. Visitors will soon have the opportunity to extend their Aquarium experience by venturing into the heart of “Tennessee’s Grand Canyon.” The River Gorge Explorer will transport as many as 70 passengers – up to five times daily - into the Gorge to experience this unspoiled stretch of the Tennessee River.

There is something lovable about frogs. Maybe it’s the way they stare at us with huge, unblinking eyes. Or it could be the way some species have slightly upturned mouths, making it appear as though they have smiles on their faces. Or maybe some frogs are just so icky, bumpy or gross they’re cool. Whatever the opinion, the Tennessee Aquarium hopes to inspire visitors to appreciate these natural wonders by opening a new frog exhibit featuring some brightly colored tropical frog species.

Taking care of penguins may be one of the coolest jobs in the world according to some Tennessee Aquarium visitors. Then they talk with the divers in the Secret Reef as big, toothy sharks swim past. “Maybe that’s the coolest job in the world,” they think to themselves. Or maybe it was the person working with the otters or seahorses.

No. 1 seed Tennessee advances in the SEC Basketball Tournament on Friday after squeezing out a victory against South Carolina, 89-87.

If you have a good United States map handy, you'll see that the southern boundary of the mid-South state of Tennessee is a long, straight line along the 35th Parallel, which also forms the northern border of Georgia and two other states.

President Bush is visiting Tennessee to survey the damage caused by a series of deadly tornadoes that ripped through the south-central United States this week.