NASHVILLE (AP) — A big brown box waits for cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones in his locker along with his No. 32 jersey and helmet. The Tennessee Titans have no idea when he might be slipping into them to join his teammates. Jones’ holdout reached six days Wednesday and eight practice sessions, which marks the longest…

CHATTANOOGA (AP) — Students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga will be paying a new $50 fee this fall to support athletics. But records show a large portion of student fees were already shifted to athletics, despite an overwhelming student vote two years ago against raising fees to boost university sports. Starting in the…

KNOXVILLE (AP) — Nearly four years after the 9-11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the nation’s first advanced nursing program specializing in mass casualties is being created at the University of Tennessee. “Nobody really thinks of a nurse as a war fighter,” said Capt. Roberta Lavin, chief policy officer for the U.S. Office…

MEMPHIS (AP) — Memphis’ mayor rejected calls to rename three parks that honor the Confederacy, saying Wednesday that the city should focus on being part of the New South and stop worrying about the remnants of the Old South. Mayor Willie Herenton, who like 60 percent of the residents of Memphis is black, said public…

NASHVILLE (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday issued a new order that gives the state even more power to restrict the pharmacy benefits of thousands of enrollees on the state’s expanded Medicaid program. U.S. District Court Judge John Nixon said the latest order concerning the so-called Grier consent decree clarifies questions by the state…

KNOXVILLE (AP) — A Knox County grand jury indicted four teens in an alleged murder plot that left one young person dead and the intended victim wounded. Richard Allen Buddy Cox II, Demetrius Lamar Gilmore, Dewayne Turner Jr., all 17, and Anthony Lee Burnett, 18, are charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and conspiracy…

SIGNAL MOUNTAIN, Tenn. (AP) — As fast as Tom and Lavenia Holly could unload a van full of glassware they brought from Pensacola, Fla., shoppers at the World’s Largest Yard Sale snapped up their homemade lamps and delicate knickknacks. It’s the Holly’s fifth year at the 450-mile-long sale, a four-day bargain-hunting spree that attracts eBay…

NASHVILLE (AP) — Authorities who for nine years have tried to solve the case of an artist who disappeared from her upscale home said Wednesday they had arrested her husband on charges of second-degree murder. Nashville police had long ago identified Perry March, a former attorney, as a suspect when his wife, Janet Levine March,…

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Susan Anne Catherine Torres emerged into the world 13 weeks early, kicking and crying three months after her mother suffered a stroke that left her brain dead and kept alive only by life support. The child born Tuesday weighed just 1 pound, 13 ounces, but she kicked so hard when someone…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats plan to use confirmation hearings to question John Roberts about his pledge to follow established legal rulings, saying his record as a government lawyer creates doubts about his commitment to privacy rights, particularly abortion, if he gets a seat on the Supreme Court. Roberts’ response to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire…