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More details are coming out as Tennessee prepares to launch the Education Savings Account program in Shelby and Davidson counties.
In a legislative hearing Monday, the state’s Department of Education said it’s using money from a dormant career initiative to be able to start school vouchers this year.
The Senate is holding a trial on the impeachment of President Trump, who is accused by the U.S. House of abusing his power and obstructing Congress.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is preparing to have fewer organs to transplant, starting next week. Academic medical centers banded together to slow down a new distribution plan for donated livers, but they’ve failed to convince a federal judge to intervene ahead of what could be a lengthy court battle.
“It was an older home, we thought, you know all it needed was a slap of paint, the carpets cleaned and it would be all right,” she says.
She soon discovered the house had mold, bedbugs, rats that chewed through the walls, and cockroaches breeding in the cupboards.
Newly uncovered police records reveal that nine months before Officer Andrew Delke shot and killed Daniel Hambrick, he was reprimanded. But not for use of force. It was a night when Delke didn’t pull his gun. And his supervisors criticized him for it.
These records provide a rare glimpse into the mind of police officer struggling to make sense of when to use his gun, and the mixed messages he received from his training, his supervisors and an increasingly wary public.
