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Toby Keith tribute concert receives praise, reveals best moments online
Country music stars performed a tribute concert for Toby Keith at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, including Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Ashley McBryde, Parker McCollum, Jelly Roll, Darius Rucker, Carrie Underwood, Lainey Wilson, The War And Treaty, and more, with videos of the event receiving overwhelming positive reactions on social media.
Author Sara Koffi discusses her new book, While We Were Burning, at TSM
Sara Koffi will discuss her new book, While We Were Burning (Penguin Random House), in conversation with Jeremy Finley on Saturday, August 10, 10:30 a.m. – 12 Noon CDT as part of the TN Writers | TN Stories series at the Tennessee State Museum. Sara Koffi is a writer...
Soccer Position Previews: Goalkeepers and Defenders
July has come to an end, and that means the 2024-25 academic year of college athletics is close to kicking off. The most prevalent form of football around the world gets the early jump with the first official competition on August 15th when the Dores go to the nation’s capital to take on Georgetown. Two exhibition matches will precede that contest with an August 6th trip to Memphis and August 10th contest hosting UAB serving as the tune-ups for a roster that looks VERY different.
Teen recovering after Nashville apartment shooting, another teen charged
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - While a teenager continues to recover after being seriously injured in a shooting at a Nashville apartment complex in late May, another teenager now faces charges, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. Police said the high schooler who was shot during a party at an...
Smithfield Foods finalizes dry sausage facility purchase from Cargill
Smithfield Foods has completed its purchase of a premier dry sausage production facility in Nashville, Tennessee, from Cargill. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Smithfield is poised to continue to expand its packaged meats business in the rapidly growing dry sausage category. The transaction fuels Smithfield's strategy of continued...
Nashville Business Manager Sentenced for Tax, Counterfeiting Offenses, Ordered to Pay Over $148K in Restitution
A former manager at Harding Place Wholesale in Nashville found himself facing the hard truth of the law after pleading guilty to tax and counterfeiting charges. Last week’s court session, overseen by Judge Angela Dalton, concluded with Mohamad Amer receiving a sentence of 10 years of supervised probation following his admission to the felony offenses.
Victim in fatal Clarksville shooting identified
The victim of a fatal shooting at the Lyrics Lounge on Fort Campbell Boulevard in Clarksville has been identified by the Clarksville Police Department. According to a news release, the victim of the shooting that happened Tuesday around 11:15 p.m. in the parking lot of the Lounge in the 1300 block of Fort Campbell Boulevard has been identified as 27-year-old Tikoreus Gold of Clarksville.
Focused ultrasound to treat tremors, Parkinson’s available soon at VUMC
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Nashville will soon treat movement disorders such as tremor and Parkinson’s disease using a minimally invasive technology called focused ultrasound (FUS) that delivers sound waves to specific regions in the brain. The approach, expected to become available in late summer or fall, uses...
Attend the 10th Annual Charlie Daniels Patriot Awards Dinner
It is a significant milestone for the Charlie Daniels Patriot Awards Dinner, which will be held on September 11, 2024, at City Winery Nashville. Tickets are available now here. The awards dinner is a program of The Charlie Daniels Journey Home Project, a 501c3 that supports military veterans and their...
Spanish-speaking church becomes Nashville's newest, largest Catholic parish
Quieres leer esta historia en español? Encuentra la traducción aquí. Antonio Figueroa stood by the doors and greeted members as they walked into the church. No one there spoke English — not even the visiting priest, who offered Mass completely in Spanish. Figueroa waved at kids he recognized and gave directions to people...
Fall matchup set between ‘Tennessee Three’ Democrat Gloria Johnson and GOP US Sen. Marsha Blackburn
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a top Republican ally of former President Donald Trump, will square off this fall in Tennessee against Democratic state Rep. Gloria Johnson, whose progressive profile rose nationally when her GOP colleagues tried to boot her from office over a gun control protest on the chamber floor.
Report: Tennessee ranked last in voter turnout in '22, low in registration too
(The Center Square) – Tennessee ranked 42nd in voter registration and last, 51st, in voter turnout in the 2022 midterm election, according to a new report from ThinkTenessee. Tennessee is scheduled to have its primary for both federal and state posts Thursday. The report showed those rankings were 41st and 27th in 2020 for the 2020 presidential election and ranked 45th and 49th in the 2016 presidential election of the...