University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Annual spending on sports by public universities in six big-time conferences like the SEC and Big 12 has passed $100,000 per athlete — about six to 12 times the amount those universities are spending per student on academics, according to a study...

As President Barack Obama tries to avoid fallout from his Cabinet and national security nominations, one potentially controversial post remains vacant. Amid tension with America's Roman Catholic leaders about a health care mandate that requires religious...

John William Hudson Jr., of Danville, died Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Born Oct. 26, 1940, in Greeneville, Tenn., he was the son of the late John William and Margorie Cates Hudson. He also was predeceased by his grandparents, Keith Peak and Mary Sherfey...

Albert H. Ford, a retired Bendix Field Engineering Corp. executive who was a noted Maryland rosarian, died Jan. 3 of pneumonia at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 90. The son of a newspaperman and a homemaker, Albert Henry...

James M. Buchanan, the U.S. economist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for applying the principles of economic self-interest to understand why politicians do what they do, has died. He was 93. He died Wednesday at a hospital in Blacksburg, Va., according to...

College football fans are generally pretty clear about their feelings on Notre Dame. You either love 'em or hate 'em. For so long, they've been the NCAA's trophy wife minus the trophy. But this year, they've finally got style and substance and for...

Four years ago, Christine Magnuson's swimming coach at the University of Tennessee suggested near the end of her final college season that she might take a shot at the U.S. trials for the 2008 Olympics. After all, Mark Kredich said, it might be the last...

Jewish students in the University of California system labeled terrorists for their support of Israel. Black high school students pelted by bananas on a Tennessee campus tour. A hostile student in Maryland challenging his professor to a fight after the...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Twelve students at the University of Tennessee have been cited for underage drinking, one for disorderly conduct, and a chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity suspended after a weekend incident involving alcohol enemas in which one...

The following students were among the 37 George Rogers Clark High School  juniors who were selected to the National Council on Youth Leadership Youth Salute. The students were recognized at a banquet and awards ceremony at Georgetown College in May....

Virginia's governor has reappointed the University of Virginia board member who led the failed effort to oust school president Teresa Sullivan. Gov. Bob McDonnell reappointed university Rector Helen Dragas of Virginia Beach on Friday. Dragas was the...

The first time Barbara Steiner plugged her tape recorder in at the old Boonsboro Middle School, she blew out the electrical circuit for half the second floor, including her class. For the past two decades, her French II students were rewarded at the...