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JONESBORO, Ga. — A 13-year-old boy used text messages and photos to help lead police to the small compartment behind an upstairs linen closet where he was being hidden inside his father's and stepmother's home in the Atlanta suburbs, authorities said Monday.

WASHINGTON — A short circuit likely due to a manufacturing defect in a Boeing 787 airliner battery caused a fire last year that grounded the planes for more than three months, federal accident investigators said Monday.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Monday he wants to ensure the U.S. isn't building a "militarized culture" within police departments, while maintaining federal programs that provide the type of military-style equipment that were used to dispel racially charged protests in Ferguson, Missouri.

A 34-year-old lifelong resident of Calhoun, Tenn., died in a car crash early Monday morning, according to an accident report from Tennessee Highway Patrol.

Ooltewah's Laszlo Toser was chosen TSSAA Kicker of the Year at the Tennessee Titans Mr. Football Awards ceremony Monday at Murfreesboro.

The National Labor Relations Board has upheld a ruling that Mercedes violated federal labor laws by stopping United Auto Workers union supporters from handing out literature inside its Alabama plant, according to the Associated Press.

Antonio George, a suspect in the Nov. 23 shooting death of a 36-year-old Cleveland, Tenn., man at a Georgetown Road home, turned himself in at the Bradley County Jail this morning, Sheriff Eric Watson stated in a news release.

An aide to a Republican congressman has resigned after her critical comments about President Barack Obama's daughters touched off a backlash.

CLINTON, Tenn. — The Tennessee Valley Authority has declined to release the incentives it awarded an auto parts maker that is expanding in Clinton.