Erik Schelzig

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In this May 3, 2012, photo, U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais, right, speaks with Gov. Bill Haslam at a groundbreaking event at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The freshman Republican raised $28,310 in the first reporting period since a transcript emerged of DesJarlais urging a woman to seek an abortion more than 12 years ago. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

Democratic PAC buys $180K in anti-DesJarlais ads

Erik Schelzig · October 29, 2012 4:00 am

National Dems jump into DesJarlais race in Tenn.

Erik Schelzig · October 19, 2012 5:12 pm

DesJarlais denies hypocrisy for talk of abortion

Erik Schelzig · October 15, 2012 8:05 pm

Southern auto industry wary of Mexican competition

Erik Schelzig · October 11, 2012 10:26 pm

Transcript: Rep. DesJarlais urged abortion

Erik Schelzig · October 10, 2012 5:32 pm

Security company fired after nuke plant break-in

Erik Schelzig · October 1, 2012 10:29 pm

FILE-In a Jan. 17, 2007, photograph, the University of Tennessee Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house is seen in Knoxville, Tenn. University administrators indefinitely suspended the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and ordered the Zeta Chapter house to be vacated in nine days in the wake of the alcohol enema incident that sent one student to the hospital. (AP Photo/Knoxville (AP Photo/Amy Smotherman Burgess,File)

Students, experts recoil at alcohol enema case

Erik Schelzig · September 29, 2012 4:00 am

Ryan hits Obama economic policies at Tenn. event

Erik Schelzig · September 27, 2012 6:06 pm

Signs warn against trespassing onto the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. The plant recently resumed operations put on hold after three anti-war protesters, including an 82-year-old nun, cut their way through three fences and spray-painted slogans on the wall of a weapons-grade uranium facility. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

Intrusion embarrasses ‘Fort Knox of uranium’

Erik Schelzig · August 18, 2012 4:00 am

Y-12 protesters Sister Megan Rice, center, and Michael Walli, in the background waving, are greeted by supporters as they arrive for a federal court appearance Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 in Knoxville, Tenn. Along with a third defendant third, Greg Boertje-Obed, the pair were indicted on charges stemming from their alleged July 2 infiltration of the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn. (AP Photo/Knoxville News Sentinel, Michael Patrick)

New charges filed in nuclear weapons plant breach

Erik Schelzig · August 9, 2012 4:00 am

Gibson Guitar acknowledges exotic wood violation

Erik Schelzig · August 6, 2012 4:06 pm

Tenn. VW workers to put in 4 weekly 10-hour shifts

Erik Schelzig · July 31, 2012 9:59 pm