Written by KIMBERLEE KRUESI More than 150 years after slaves were freed in the U.S., voters in five states will soon decide whether to close loopholes that led to the proliferation of a different form of slavery — forced labor...
Read MoreWritten by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A Tennessee school district has voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust due to “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman, according to minutes...
Read MoreWritten by TRAVIS LOLLER Nashville-based helicopter pilot Joel Boyers had just finished helping his fiancee earn her pilot’s license on Saturday morning, and they were heading home to celebrate, when he received a frantic call...
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Written by WILL WEISSERT Top Republicans are battling school districts in their own states’ urban,...
Read MoreWritten by TRAVIS LOLLER Tennessee has sent nearly half a million dollars to farmers who have vaccinated their cattle against respiratory diseases and other maladies over the past two years. But Republican Gov. Bill Lee, who...
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Written by SETH BORENSTEIN Sifting through a shovel load of dirt in a suburban backyard, Michael...
Read MoreWritten by KIMBERLEE KRUESI When frantic messages started trickling in that a tornado had hit a beloved music venue in Nashville, Mike Grimes told himself it couldn’t possibly be that bad. Could Basement East really be...
Read MoreDeadly tornadoes knocked out polling places in Tennessee, fears over the coronavirus left some precincts short of election workers and long lines frustrated voters in California and Texas as Super Tuesday sent voters surging to...
Read MoreTornadoes ripped across Tennessee as people slept early Tuesday, shredding at least 140 buildings and killing at least 22 people. Authorities described painstaking efforts to find survivors in piles of rubble and wrecked...
Read MoreDays and days of heavy rain have created a dilemma for authorities managing dams along swollen rivers in Mississippi and Tennessee. The water has to be released eventually, worsening the flooding for people living downstream....
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