Tennessee

Tennessee execution survivor Christa Pike released from hospital, returned to prison

Pike, 50, had been taken from the execution chamber to a Nashville hospital, unconscious and ‌with severe arm injuries after two injections failed to kill her at a maximum-security prison.

Christa Gail Pike, 36, the only woman on Tennessee's Death Row, is pictured in this 2007 Tennessee Department of Correction booking photograph obtained by Reuters March 22, 2012.
A picture taken on December 4, 2007 shows death row inmate Christa Pike entering a Knox County Criminal Court in Knoxville, Tennessee, US., obtained by Reuters on September 30, 2026.

After botched execution attempt, death row inmate Christa Pike awakes 'angry and confused'

A picture taken on December 4, 2007 shows death row inmate Christa Pike entering a Knox County Criminal Court in Knoxville, Tennessee, US., obtained by Reuters on September 30, 2026.

Tennessee execution survivor Christa Pike is conscious and speaking, lawyers say

A picture taken on December 4, 2007 shows death row inmate Christa Pike entering a Knox County Criminal Court in Knoxville, Tennessee, US., obtained by Reuters on September 30, 2026.

Tennessee prison chief resigns after second failed execution this year


Jewish communities must bolster security against antisemitic attacks - opinion

Jewish communities and facilities are frequently targets of antisemitic attacks but we don't have to be victims.

 A Memphis police cruiser.

Memphis Jewish school shooting suspect saw cops kill his father in 2003

The man who tried to enter Margolin Hebrew Academy with a gun was Joel Bowman, who saw his father killed by Memphis police in 2003.

 Memphis, Tennessee (illustrative).

Rabbi Craig Lewis: Classy reform rabbi in Chattanooga

Lewis: “In Chattanooga, we do have very strong synagogues, a very strong federation and a lot of folks committed to it.”

 Rabbi Lewis and his wife, Jennifer, celebrating with their son Eden as he became bar mitzvah on June 12, 2021.

'Queen of rock 'n' roll' Tina Turner dies at 83

Turner began her career in the 1950s during the early years of rock and roll and evolved into an MTV phenomenon.

 Tina Turner performs during her "Wildest Dream" tour concert in Basel, Switzerland July 5, 1996.

In Tennessee, guns are winning and children are losing - opinion

Even common-sense reforms like red flag laws, background checks, raising the minimum age for gun purchases and assault rifle bans are apparently too radical.

 PROTESTERS GATHER outside the Tennessee State Capitol to call for an end to gun violence and stronger gun laws, after a deadly shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, last month.

Tennessee Democratic lawmakers expelled over gun-control protest hope to reclaim seats

Representatives Jones and Pearson hoped to be reappointed by their districts to serve in their seats until they could run again in special elections

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville shooting spurs US schools to review security -- again

Ron Avi Astor, a University of California, Los Angeles professor who studies school violence said small schools in vulnerable Jewish and Muslim communities have created subtle barriers to entry.

 Children run past an ambulance near the Covenant School after a shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, US March 27, 2023

7 dead after school shooting in Nashville, officials say

Two officers from a five-member team shot the assailant in a lobby area, and the suspect was pronounced dead by 10:27 a.m.

 Police officers arrive at the Covenant School, Covenant Presbyterian Church, after reports of a shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, US March 27, 2023

Jews responsible for slavery, antisemitic flyers at US university claim

The watchdog organization StopAntisemitism wrote on Twitter, "this is the EXACT hateful rhetoric that Kyrie Irving helped spread."

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Memphis police say four dead after 19-year old's shooting spree

Four people were dead and three Wounded after a shooting spree in Memphis. The suspected shooter was arrested by the Memphis police.

 Memphis police officers work at one of multiple crime scenes they believe were committed by a man driving around shooting in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. September 7, 2022.