Six states send National Guard troops to Washington as Trump deploys soldiers to combat crime and federalizes the Metropolitan Police Department.

A hiker was found on the Den Ridge Trail east of Gatlinburg. Crew members hoisted the hiker into a helicopter.

The Tennessee National Guard was called to rescue an injured hiker from the Great Smoky Mountain National Park this week.

The chair of the Democratic Governors Association, however, warned Republican governors against supporting “a dangerous, politically motivated agenda.”

Six states have pledged to send troops to Washington, D.C., swelling the number of National Guard brought to support federal law enforcement.

Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana pledged to send National Guard troops to Washington. They could carry weapons in the city.

SEVIER CO., Tenn. (WSMV) - An injured hiker was flown to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville after he was rescued from a remote area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Tuesday evening.

The Tennessee National Guard rescued an injured hiker in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Tuesday night.

Tennessee Congressman Explains Constitutional Differences Between National Capital and Home State in Crime Crackdown In a Wednesday appearance on CNN's "Inside Politics," Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett (R) clarified for host Dana Bash why President Donald Trump was deploying National Guard troops to Washington,