A federal judge on Jan. 5 reduced the sentence for Smith, 62, from eight months in prison to a year of probation. U.S.

A former House staffer — pardoned for a federal corruption conviction — is asking to delay a hearing before the state’s ...

A federal judge has reduced a prison sentence to probation for a former Tennessee lawmaker whose testimony helped land ...

As we look back on the year 2025, a major story was the corruption trial involving former Tennessee Speaker Glen Casada and ...

The defendants suggested in legal filings the government's confidential informant is House Speaker Cameron Sexton or someone ...

An order put down on Monday gave former state Rep. Robin Smith a year of probation and spared her any prison time. Ms. Smith, a former Hamilton County and Tennessee Republican Party chairman, had been ...

Former Tennessee House Speaker Glen Casada and his top aide Cade Cothren will receive pardons from President Donald Trump, a White House official confirmed to USA TODAY. Casada and Cothren had been ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Cade Cothren, the former chief of staff to Tennessee’s speaker of the house, is asking a federal judge to hold off on sending him to prison while he appeals his conviction on ...

Former Hixson lawmaker Robin Smith is supposed to start serving her prison sentence next Monday.But Smith's legal team filed ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A former Tennessee House speaker was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison after being convicted in a scheme with a onetime aide to win taxpayer-funded mail business from ...