Fire officials in Tennessee say nine people are dead after a blaze enveloped a home in Memphis in the early hours.

Tennessee lawmakers have voted to make the Bible the state's official book.

Five people have been killed after a tourist helicopter crashed in the Great Smoky Mountains in eastern Tennessee.

Police have launched a massive manhunt following the killing of an officer who interrupted a drug deal.

A Kuwait-born man who shot and killed five service members in Tennessee suffered from depression since his early teenage years and fought drug and alcohol abuse, his family has said.

A sailor wounded in the shooting spree by a gunman in Tennessee has died, taking the toll to five.

Authorities are investigating what made a gunman attack military sites in the US, killing four marines before he was shot dead by police.

A gunman unleashed a hail of bullets at two military sites a few miles apart in Tennessee, killing at least four US Marines before he was shot dead by police.

Five people were killed yesterday including a suspected gunman who opened fire at two military-related facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in an attack officials described as an act of terrorism.

At least two military facilities in Tennessee have been attacked in shootings, including a Navy recruiting building.

Good golly that scary!

As much of the US debates the use of lethal injections against a backdrop of drug scarcity and botched executions, Tennessee has found an alternative — the electric chair.