Formally known as "The State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes," it was a trial that was a challenge to the Butler Act.

Authorities have identified 16-year-old Truston Alexander as the victim of a fatal tubing accident on a Butler County pond. A ...

Tennessee basketball has one scholarship spot to fill and it hosted international guard Ethan Butler Burg as a candidate to ...

Jamie Dimon just sent Donald Trump a warning about meddling with the Fed All the Celebrities and Royals Who Attended ...

Dayton, Tennessee was the center of the world's attention.A biology teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching Ch ...

John Washington Butler, a corn and tobacco farmer serving in the Tennessee House of Representatives, introduced the Butler ...

In 1925, a teacher deliberately broke a law stating that evolution could not be taught in Tennessee classrooms. His trial ...

As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the case continue to be felt today.

In 1925, the tiny, growing town of Dayton saw an economic opportunity in the ACLU's newspaper ads seeking a teacher to ...

The NCAA Tournament is one-and-done chaos — regular-season success should matter more when judging college basketball coaches ...

Butler is the third Wildcat to earn an NBA opportunity. He joins Koby Brea and Amari Williams who were second-round picks. “I ...

You may have noticed that the 100th anniversary of the so-called “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, has rolled around this month, with various offerings, notably my colleague Ron Grossman’s ...