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KY woman, ex-TLC '1,000-lb Sisters' star, arrested in TN on drug, child endangerment charges
A "1,000-lb Sisters" star with west Kentucky ties is facing charges following a Labor Day arrest at a Tennessee zoo. Amy Slaton Halterman, who appeared on the first two seasons of the TLC docuseries "1,000-lb Sisters" in 2020, is charged with two counts of child endangerment, one count of the illegal possession...
Motorcyclist with chihuahua in jacket arrested in Michigan for carrying gun
(CBS DETROIT) - A Tennessee motorcyclist was arrested over the weekend after he was stopped for speeding while on the way to visit his girlfriend in Michigan. He was carrying a gun with him but didn't have a CPL. At 2:35 p.m. on Saturday, a trooper conducted a traffic stop on a motorcycle for speeding on M-32 near Gamage Road in Alpena County.The motorcyclist, a 56-year-old man from Tennessee, told the trooper he and his chihuahua, which was tucked inside his jacket, were heading to Michigan to visit his girlfriend. State police say the man also told the trooper he had a gun in a backpack that was strapped to the motorcycle. He did not have a CPL, and the trooper seized a .45 caliber pistol. The motorcyclist was arrested and taken to the Alpena County Jail and said "the chihuahua was not taken into custody."
Racial and political gerrymander look virtually the same with Tennessee’s U.S. House maps
Middle Tennessee has three corridors in which a large portion of the state’s nonwhite population lives, and two of them used to be in one congressional district. Now, they are spread across four. The move to split Clarksville, North Nashville, and the Antioch-Smyrna region into four different U.S. congressional districts allowed Republicans to flip a […]
New George Masa biography reveals startling discoveries | Word from the Smokies
In early September, Smokies Life will release a historical title of regional and national importance: “George Masa: A Life Reimagined.” It’s a comprehensive biography of a slender Japanese man with a big grin who hiked throughout the mountains of Western North Carolina and East Tennessee in the 1920s and early 1930s. Friends often helped carry his state-of-the-art camera equipment, and sometimes he was seen using a strange apparatus - a wheel attached to bicycle handlebars - to...
Report: 2023 was 'record breaking' for new residential development in Knox Co.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The price of owning a home is still pushing homeownership out of reach for most East Tennessee families, according to a new report by the East Tennessee REALTORS group. It said the median home sales price in July was $374,950, a drop of around $50 compared...
Two local teams earn spots in first AP Tennessee high school football poll of the season
The Tennessee Sports Writers Association announced football rankings after Week 2 on Monday, with the poll presented by CoachT.com. Top 10 teams in each of the six Division I classifications and Top 5 in three Division II classes were selected by TSWA members with first-place votes in parentheses and total points based on 10 points […]
Ascend Federal Awards Scholarships to Students at TSU, Fisk University
Ascend Federal Credit Union, the largest credit union in Middle Tennessee, has awarded four scholarships to first-generation college students attending local Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Two students from both Tennessee State University and Fisk University received $5,000 scholarships – a total of $20,000 in scholarship funding. “At...
Tennessee receives $35M federal college readiness grant
(The Center Square) – Tennessee’s Higher Education Commission received a $35 million grant aimed at promoting college readiness in underserved and at-risk communities. It will mean that 9,000 students will receive support throughout the seven years of the grant, starting with 1,600 seventh-graders from the class of 2030 who will receive support through their first year of college. The GEAR UP TN 4.0 program will work with high schools and...
Tennessee ‘closer’ to resuming executions after more than two-year pause
"I suspect that we are closer than further from having a protocol in place and we'll be allowed to continue that process," Gov. Bill Lee said about the state's progress in developing a new death penalty protocol.
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