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A 5.6 magnitude quake rocked central Oklahoma late Saturday after a day of smaller quakes, leaving cracked buildings and a buckled highway but no initial reports of major damage. The temblor was so strong it rattled a packed college football stadium 50 miles away and could be felt in Tennessee.

A teenage student is facing a first-degree murder charge, with police saying that he followed through on a plan to kill the principal of his small private school in Memphis, Tennessee.

An Allegiant flight bound for Tennessee was delayed twice Saturday — first due to a smoky smell in the cabin, then because of a toddler who wouldn't stay seated.

Searchers in western Tennessee kept looking Thursday for a nursing student who was last seen being dragged from her house by a man wearing camouflage in what authorities say may have been a home invasion and abduction.

Two women postal workers were fatally shot Monday morning in a post office in Henning, Tennessee, about 50 miles northeast of Memphis, a dispatcher for the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Department said.

A spokesman for federal arson investigators said Sunday a fire that damaged construction equipment at the site of an Islamic center in suburban Nashville remained under investigation.

A pitched fight for the Republican nomination for governor ends with Knoxville's mayor winning.

A Monroe County election official says the chairman of the local election commission has been found dead after his car was discovered burning.

The Chattanooga, Tennessee, police department has placed an officer on paid administrative leave for arresting a man who sped and ran three red lights as he tried to rush his wife to a hospital, police said.

Taylor Swift is donating $500,000 to flood relief in Nashville. The money will go directly to various flood relief organizations in the city rocked by deadly storms and flooding that killed 30 in three states, including 20 in Tennessee. The gift was announced by the show's host after Swift finished an interview from her tour stop in Des Moines, Iowa. Swift moved to Nashville when she was 14.