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A jury on Thursday convicted a Wahiawa man of second-degree murder after authorities say he went on a shooting rampage through Honolulu in 2011, killing a mother of 10 and wounding two other people as he opened fire... A jury on Thursday convicted a Wahiawa man of second-degree murder and other charges in a 2011 shooting rampage through Honolulu ... (more)

A longtime Knoxville lawyer and the first female president of the Tennessee Bar Association has been nominated by President Barack Obama to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.

Breaking news: Conservative organizations suddenly have found common cause with one of their favorite objects of contempt -- the benighted Mainstream Media.

The White House's release of nearly 100 pages of emails and notes about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, has failed to satisfy congressional Republicans demanding more... The White House release of some 100 pages of emails and notes about the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last ... (more)

Has the federal government become ungovernable? It certainly seems that way if we take the reports on recent failures at face value.

Sen. Lamar Alexander doubled down Tuesday on his comparison of fundraising by a top Obama administration official for a nonprofit working to implement the Affordable Care Act to the Iran-Contra scandal of 1986.

President Barack Obama genuinely believed he could buck the second-term curse of fecklessness and scandal that afflicted the last three two-term presidents, even if history and his adversaries suggested otherwise.

The talk on the street is that Knoxville lawyer Pam Reeves has been to the White House as part of the process of being considered for a lifetime appointment as a federal judge.

The White House Board of Mayor and Aldermen is poised to propose a 20-cent property tax hike to fund capital projects in the 2013-14 city budget, including the construction of a new library and an extensive overhaul of the city's sewer system.

There is no doubt some people love history. Their period clothing can make their passion easy to identify even if the location they are celebrating doesn't. "You may ask, why are we doing this in White House? We have no battlefields in White House." said White House Mayor Mike Arnold.

Conservatives choked on New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's heavy-handed efforts to ban Big Gulp-sized soft drinks in the Big Apple.

The White House Board of Mayor and Aldermen are poised to propose a 20-cent property tax hike to fund capital projects in the 2013-14 city budget, including building a new library and an extensive overhaul of the city's sewer system.

A friend and fellow student of Chattanooga history recently shared a copy of an 1892 Chamber of Commerce advertisement booklet.

With budget and foreign policy issues continuing to cloud the White House's relationship with Congress, President Barack Obama on Monday invited Republican Sen.

Any parent who has ever raised a child with serious character and moral issues, perhaps as a consequence of what turns out to have been a persistent and reckless infusion of adulation and unconditional love, must soon come to the realization that as a by-product of their permissiveness, blindness, or fantastical "Hope for Change," something ... (more)

Tennessee political, business and educational leaders had loudly called for more rigorous education standards, because the measurements for progress in Tennessee's schools gave a false impression of success.

Back in Chicago, before Michelle Obama became first lady, she was plotting a White House garden.

The Relay for Life of White House will run for 12 straight hours on Friday, May 3 from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. the following morning at White House Heritage High School.

President Obama calls it "the bubble." President Harry Truman called it "the great white jail." And President Bill Clinton called it "the crown jewel of the federal penitentiary system." They were all talking about the constraints of living in the White House , which is the topic of Kenneth Walsh's new book, out Wednesday by Paradigm Press.

A White House High School student's mother says it's a miracle her son is alive after suffering a critical head injury while trying to reenact a stunt he saw on YouTube.