The Tennessean

The government may resume funding of embryonic stem cell research for now, an appeals court said Thursday, but the short-term approval may be of little help to research scientists caught in a legal battle that has just begun.

The Blind Pig No. 55, a new restaurant in the 12 South District, is heaping plates with smoky meats and inventive Low Country-inspired side dishes.

When floodwaters rose at the campground where she was staying near Opryland this past May, Margo Franssen didn't call 911. She tweeted her emergency.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A federal judge in Southern California has declared the U.S. military's ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional because the ban violates the First Amendment rights of gays and lesbians.

Police have arrested a second man in a fatal Artic Avenue beating.

The Internal Revenue Service donated 154 computers to Cameron Middle School in Nashville on Wednesday and plans to give 150 to Bellshire Elementary tomorrow.

Springfield, TN pastor still plans to burn Quran at his home.

Nashville area home sales declined for a second straight month, reflecting consumers being more cautious about big purchases and end of a federal tax credit of up to $8,000 to homebuyers.

Gov. Phil Bredesen conceded that his administration erred by naming too many Democrats to the Tennessee Board of Regents and said he will "fix up" the situation within the next few days.

ATLANTA (AP) -- An apple a day? Apparently not in the United States. Most Americans still don't eat enough vegetables, and fruit consumption is actually dropping a little, according to a new government report released Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that last year about one-third of U.S. adults had two or more servings of fruit or fruit juice a day. That's down slightly from more than 34 percent in 2000. Only about 26 percent ate vegetables three or more times a day, the same as in 2000. The statistics come from a national telephone survey of hundreds of thousands of Americans.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court on Thursday permitted federal funding of stem cell research to proceed for now, while it considers a judge's ruling that had temporarily shut off the funds. The government is asking the appeals court in Washington to strike down a preliminary order by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth blocking federal funding for some stem cell research.

For­mer Jack­son Mayor Charles Farmer is resign­ing from the Ten­nessee Ethics Com­mis­sion out of frus­tra­tion over its lim­ited pow­ers, says the Jack­son Sun this morning.

HAVANA — Cuba's communist economic model has come in for criticism from an unlikely source: Fidel Castro.

Sources say New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was unhurt after a two-car accident in Boston.

An accident in the southbound lane of I-65 near the Briley Parkway/Opryland exit is slowing the morning commute into Nashville.

The remnants of tropical storm Hermine will sweep toward Middle Tennessee tonight, bringing the possibility of heavy rainfall to Nashville and the surrounding northern counties.

Authorities say a 1-year-old boy in Shelby County was killed when his father backed over him with a tractor.

Lipscomb University President Dr. L. Randolph Lowry is one of 40 faith-based leaders and scholars participating in a White House policy briefing on Iraq.

President Barack Obama is exhorting a Florida minister to "listen to those better angels" and call off his plan to engage in a Quran-burning protest this weekend.