The Associated Press poured over the stories, and here’s their list of the top 10 stories in Tennessee for 2007. Do you think they got it right?
- A drought grips Tennessee while a heat wave kills more than a dozen people in the state.
- Mary Winkler being convicted of voluntary manslaughter for killing her preacher husband.
- John Ford being found guilty in the Tennessee Waltz corruption case.
- Al Gore winning the Nobel Peace Prize, an Emmy and an Oscar.
- Workplace smoking ban and tripling the cigarette tax.
- Fred Thompson declaring his candidacy for President.
- The fall of Titans cornerback Adam Pacman Jones.
- Ron Ramsey becoming the first republican since the Civil War to serve as speaker of the state Senate.
- The brutal murder of a young Knoxville couple Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.
- The future of the death penalty is on holdwhile the U.S. Supreme Court decides on the constitutionality of lethal injections.
