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Storms from Okla. weakening as they move to Tenn.
Meteorologist Brittney Coleman with the NWS office in Nashville said high wind and hail are the major threats with the storm system. The probability of severe storms is most likely from the Mississippi River to Interstate ...
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Publisher moving administrative offices downtown
Company and state officials announced the move Tuesday, saying Sony will expand its global administration offices, adding 50-60 new jobs. The publisher will move into space in the Fifth Third Center. The publisher will occupy three full floors of the bank building and is set to move by the end of the ...
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Tennessee sends search and rescue team to Oklahoma
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee-based team of emergency service workers has gone to Oklahoma to help with tornado recovery. Memphis Fire Department spokesman Wayne Cooke said that Tennessee Task Force 1 left early Tuesday from Memphis. Cooke says the 80-member team will mostly help with search and rescue efforts after powerful and deadly tornadoes struck cities in Oklahoma on Sunday and ...
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Updated conservatorship statute effective July 1
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Gov. Bill Haslam has signed into law revisions to the state conservatorship statute. The law allows the court to appoint a conservator to manage the assets of a person a judge finds unable to handle his or her own affairs. State Rep. Andrew Farmer, a Sevierville Republican, ...
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Morriss wins Unions Eaton Speech Contest
- Grace Morriss, a junior engineering major from Flower Mound, Texas, won the 2013 Union University Joseph H. Eaton Speech and Oratory Contest May 2. Morriss' speech, entitled "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Military Screening," beat out nine other speeches. Courtney Brown placed second with "The Dangers of Barbie" and Leeana Cargile placed third with ...
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Union University Hendersonville admits next Leadership Academy class
- Union University Hendersonville has admitted 40 individuals for its next installment of Leadership Academy, which will begin in June. Leadership Academy is an ongoing program designed for teachers and administrators in Sumner County schools. All participants receive professional in-service credit and those who are admitted to a Union graduate degree program will receive three hours of ...
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Police chief No charges likely in Va parade crash
DAMASCUS, Va. -; Authorities say an elderly driver is not likely to face charges for plowing into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town's ...
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Nashville home construction activity grows
Home construction activity in Nashville continues to build momentum, according to a new report by research firm Metrostudy. "Builders continue to successfully sell their existing inventory and new starts. Even model homes are being sold as inventory tightens," Jason Brown, director of Metrostudy's Nashville region, said in the report. During the 12-month period that ended in March, ...
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Tennessee City Debates Red Light Cameras
A group in Murfreesboro has started a petition to end the use of red-light cameras, but police say the traffic enforcement measure has improve safety. Middle Tennessee State University student Axl David, who heads Citizens Against Photo Enforcement, said he plans to submit the petition to City Council after 1,000 people have signed it. The group complains that the city uses the cameras to ...
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Red Bank officials say town is fine without cams
RED BANK, Tenn. (AP) -- Now that traffic enforcement cameras have been gone from a Hamilton County city for four months, officials are saying just how much they are not ...
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Texas arrest of suspect in Nashville homicide
Eric Lozano, who is 31 years old and from Lyford, was arrested Monday night in the killing of Mitchel T. Moreno in a Nashville motel room. Moreno was 52 and was from the Denmark community in Madison County, ...
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More troops due back at Fort Campbell
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) -- Families and friends will be meeting loved ones this week at Fort Campbell, where more soldier are returning to the post on the Kentucky-Tennessee from ...
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Trial begins in international custody case
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-A trial begins Tuesday that could determine which country will decide the fate of 13-year-old twin boys at the center of an international custody battle that extends from Eastern Europe to Middle Tennessee. The boys are American citizens who were born in Texas but have spent the majority of their lives in Hungary. Their father is an American citizen with family in the Cottontown ...
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Development projects plod on despite downturn
Knoxville has been hit hard by the recession like every other major city across the country and the world, but innovative planning and adaptation by city leaders seem to be helping the local economy recovery, while laying the ground work for a strong economic future as well.
Knoxville, like any major city, suffers from its fair share of social ills, inner city violence, a concerning crime rate, dilapidated areas of the city that breed nefarious anti-social behavior like drug abuse and drug dealing and a lack of funds to properly stamp out these problems. Read more
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