UPDATE: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee executed Harold Wayne Nichols by lethal injection Thursday in Nashville for the 1988 rape and murder of Karen Pulley, a 20-year-old student at Chattanooga State University. Nichols, 64, had confessed to killing Pulley as well as raping several other women in the Chattanooga area. Although he …

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan fires football coach Sherrone Moore, saying he had ‘inappropriate relationship’ with staff member.

Chattanooga Mocs (5-5) at Tennessee State Lady Tigers (1-7) Nashville, Tennessee; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Chattanooga visits Tennessee State after Gianna Corbitt scored 30 points in Chattanooga’s 78-73 win against the Bellarmine Knights. The Lady Tigers have gone 1-2 at home. Tennessee State ranks third in the OVC …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A doctor who pleaded guilty to selling ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before the “Friends” star’s overdose death was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison on Wednesday. Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence plus two years of probation to 44-year-old Dr. Salvador Plasencia in a …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Matt Van Epps has won a nationally watched special election in Tennessee for a seat in the U.S. House, maintaining his party’s grip on the district with help from President Donald Trump. A military veteran and former state general services commissioner from Nashville, Van Epps defeated Democratic state …

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Travis Harper II and Aaron Nkrumah had 17 points apiece in Tennessee State’s 70-64 victory against Chattanooga on Sunday. Harper had six rebounds for the Tigers (5-3). Dante Harris finished 6 of 11 from the field to finish with 15 points. The Mocs (4-4) were led …

Lane Kiffin left his one-loss Ole Miss team to become the coach at LSU on Sunday, taking over a program that has won national titles under three of its previous four coaches while saying he would have stayed to coach the Rebels in the postseason had he been allowed to. …

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Lane Kiffin says on social media he is leaving Ole Miss to become LSU’s football coach.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Jordan Frison had 17 points in Chattanooga’s 109-59 win over Tennessee Wesleyan on Friday. Frison went 7 of 8 from the field (3 for 3 from 3-point range) for the Mocs (4-3). Billy Smith scored 15 points while going 6 of 10 (3 for 7 from …

UTC Community: As part of the ongoing construction project for the Dorothy and Jim Kennedy Health Sciences Building, an unmarked gas line was inadvertently struck at approximately 9:45 AM today. The UTC Police Department (UTCPD), UTC Office of Environmental Health and Safety (EHS), Chattanooga Fire Department (CFD), and UTC Facilities …