International Business News - Tennessee http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Despite lingering drought conditions in some parts of the state, Tennessee agricultural officials say 2008 is a good year for the harvest. With 98 percent of the corn harvested, 95 percent of the soybeans reaped and half the tobacco stripped, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued its final weekly Tennessee Crop Weather bulletin on Nov. 17. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/tenn-officials-say-2008-harvest-deemed-a-good-one.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:29:48 EST A twin-engine plane was spinning as it fell from the sky and crashed Monday several miles from Nashville's major airport, killing a retail executive and the two others aboard the plane, witnesses and authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081125/3-people-die-in-plane-crash-in-nashville-tenn.htm Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:18:47 EST A twin-engine plane was spinning as it fell from the sky and crashed Monday several miles from Nashville's major airport, killing a retail executive and the two others aboard the plane, witnesses and authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081124/3-people-die-in-plane-crash-north-of-nashville.htm Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:17:38 EST Two men pleaded guilty Monday to firebombing a storefront mosque that was reduced to rubble with black swastikas spray painted on it. A federal indictment said the two and a third defendant also tagged "White Power" on the outside of the mosque before torching the building with Molotov cocktails. No one was injured in the February fire that burned down the Islamic Center of Columbia, about 40 miles south of Nashville. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081103/2-plead-guilty-to-firebombing-tennessee-mosque.htm Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:06:36 EST The 16-year-old driver of a sport utility vehicle that went out of control in rural Tennessee and caused a weekend accident that killed five people should not have been on the road, authorities said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081027/teen-in-fatal-tenn-crash-had-restricted-license.htm Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:57:15 EDT A rural East Tennessee community was grieving Saturday for four high school cheerleaders who died in a fiery car crash hours after they had been cheering on their football team. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/159890-tennessee-crash.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081026/suv-collides-with-car-in-tenn-crash-killing-5.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081026/suv-collides-with-car-in-tenn-crash-killing-5.htm Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:27:50 EDT A rural East Tennessee community was grieving Saturday for four high school cheerleaders who died in a fiery car crash hours after they had been cheering on their football team. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/159761-tennessee-crash.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081025/suv-collides-with-car-in-tenn-crash-killing-4.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081025/suv-collides-with-car-in-tenn-crash-killing-4.htm Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:02:22 EDT A 19-year-old student at Middle Tennessee State University has been arrested on terrorism charges after threatening e-mails forced the cancellation of classes. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/credible-e-mail-threat-shuts-down-tenn-campus.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:29:17 EDT The fatal shooting of a store employee and gun battle with police in a Knoxville shopping mall began as a complaint over a clothing purchase, authorities said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/148328-tennesee-mall-shooting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/man-charged-in-tenn-mall-shooting-that-killed-1.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/man-charged-in-tenn-mall-shooting-that-killed-1.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:17:40 EDT A customer opened fire in a crowded shopping mall Wednesday afternoon, killing a clothing store employee before he was shot and wounded by police officers, authorities said. Witnesses said the gunfire sent people "stampeding" for cover. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/147794-tennesee-mall-shooting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/1-dead-in-tenn-mall-shooting-suspect-caught.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/1-dead-in-tenn-mall-shooting-suspect-caught.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:41:18 EDT Patsy Lawson and her husband, Herman, grew up in a patch of Appalachia with "no railroad, no airstrips, just subsistence farming." There she learned from her father--a "great natural storyteller"--how to turn everyday events into compelling tales. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/143330-storycorps-tennessee.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/storycorps-ordinary-folks-telling-tales-a-big-hit.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/storycorps-ordinary-folks-telling-tales-a-big-hit.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:55:05 EDT Police in eastern Tennessee say they found a school bus driver passed out behind the wheel of a loaded bus that was stopped in the middle of a road. None of the 30 children aboard were hurt Tuesday morning and the driver was charged with driving under the influence. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/tenn-bus-driver-accused-of-dui-with-kids-aboard.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:00:13 EDT A former Tennessee state senator has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for accepting more than $800,000 from companies and pushing for laws that favored them. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080930/former-tenn-lawmaker-gets-14-years-for-fraud.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:15:20 EDT A former Tennessee state senator has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for accepting more than $800,000 from companies and pushing for laws that favored them. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080929/former-tenn-lawmaker-gets-14-years-for-fraud.htm Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:02:04 EDT URS Corp. said Monday it will provide construction and engineering services for Tennessee Valley Authority power generating plants under a $3.7 billion, 10-year alliance. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080908/urs-strikes-3-7b-alliance-to-improve-tva-plants.htm Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:01:32 EDT Tennessee's financial incentives for Volkswagen to pick Chattanooga total $577.4 million, apparently the largest such offer to an automaker joining the South's lineup of assembly plants. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080829/tennessee-incentives-for-vw-total-577-4-million.htm Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:56:59 EDT Tennessee prosecutors want to try a 15-year-old boy as an adult in last week's fatal shooting of a classmate in the middle of a crowded school cafeteria. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/117824-tennessee-school-shooting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080828/prosecutors-try-teen-as-adult-in-tenn-shooting.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080828/prosecutors-try-teen-as-adult-in-tenn-shooting.htm Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:05:07 EDT Tough-talking Ryan McDonald grew up in a rough blue-collar neighborhood, teased as "Mr. Clean" since childhood after an ailment left him permanently bald. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080822/student-killed-in-shooting-at-tenn-school.htm Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:25:25 EDT A student fatally shot a 15-year-old classmate Thursday at a high school, police said, as other teenagers watched in horror as the victim clutched his chest and fell to the floor. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080821/report-1-wounded-in-shooting-at-tenn-school.htm Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:03:24 EDT A woman who made headlines by having five pups cloned and was linked to an abduction case in England is also wanted in Tennessee on charges she tried to plan a burglary in 2004, a defense attorney and prosecutors there said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/109076-cloned-dogs-mormon-hostage.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080815/woman-who-had-dogs-cloned-wanted-in-tennessee.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080815/woman-who-had-dogs-cloned-wanted-in-tennessee.htm Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:05:15 EDT