DCS has been under heightened scrutiny over how it handled abuse and
neglect investigations of more than 200 children who later died or were
seriously injured.
Tennessee's unemployment insurance program has cut its backlog of
claims awaiting decisions by more than half since reaching a high of
about 28,000 claims in September, the Department of Labor and Workforce
Development said last week.
The American Red Cross assisted a woman and her two children with
temporary shelter on Sunday afternoon after their Blount County home
caught fire earlier that day.
