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Hendersonville’s Chase Burns achieves MLB strikeout milestones, but still seeks first big-league win

The Associated Press

July 30, 2025

Chase Burns, of Hendersonville, has reached some elite company in his first six starts in the majors. And his next start is likely to be Saturday against the Atlanta Braves in the MLB Speedway Classic at Tennessee’s Bristol Motor Speedway, where more than 85,000 tickets have been sold.

Filed Under: Sports, WPLN News Tagged With: baseball, Bristol Motor Speedway, Chase Burns, Major League Baseball

NashVillager: Tunnelling in Tennessee

Nina Cardona

July 29, 2025

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Nashville is built on a kind of bedrock that’s famously difficult to tunnel through, so what does that mean for new plans to make an underground passage to the airport? Plus the local news for July 29, 2025 and a heavy polluter in East Tennessee. 

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News

How one Tennessee nonprofit will use a federal grant to help families with disabilities

Camellia Burris

July 28, 2025

TNSTEP Board of Directors member Bridgett Jordan with her two daughters, Skyy and Sunny. TNSTEP recently received a federal grant to go towards the services they provide to Tennessee families with disabilities.

Parents of students with disabilities are wondering how the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education will impact their children.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: disabilities, special education, Tennessee Comptroller, U.S. Department of Education

Tennessee partners with Elon Musk on Tesla tunnel between downtown Nashville and airport

Tony Gonzalez|Cynthia Abrams|Marianna Bacallao

July 28, 2025

A privately developed tunnel project could soon connect travelers from downtown Nashville to Nashville International Airport.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News Tagged With: BNA, Elon Musk, infrastructure, Nashville International Airport, transportation, tunnels

NashVillager Podcast: Vultee

Nina Cardona

July 28, 2025

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Was Rosie the Riveter modeled on a Nashville aircraft builder? Plus, the local news for July 28, 2025.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News

Networking in Nashville in the name of advancing women’s audio careers

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July 28, 2025

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Women’s Audio Mission finds that, “too often, recording studios and boardrooms can be uncomfortable spaces for women, especially young women that are just getting started, and that’s something that absolutely must change.”

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: equity, Joy Oladokun, Linda Perry, music industry

Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime.

Aliyya Swaby, ProPublica

July 28, 2025

Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: bullying, social media, threats of mass violence

Peak heat expected in Nashville, continuing streak of 90-degree days

Tony Gonzalez

July 27, 2025

The relentless heat is not over — and is expected to be at its most dangerous this week.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: heat, heat advisory, heat wave

‘Buckingham Nicks’ bombed in 1973. Then it became used vinyl treasure

The Associated Press

July 27, 2025

Warner Music Group has announced that it’s reissuing the lone album recorded by Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham when they were just a duo. The couple later joined Fleetwood Mac for its most successful lineup. “Buckingham Nicks” bombed when it came out in 1973. But its cult status only grew over the decades.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: music industry, vinyl, Warner Music Group

Titans rookie QB Cam Ward will get much of the work with the 1st-team offense in camp

Teresa M. Walker, AP

July 26, 2025

The Tennessee Titans will give rookie quarterback Cam Ward most of the work running the first-team offense in training camp even as they hold off announcing the No. 1 overall draft pick their starter.

Filed Under: Sports, WPLN News Tagged With: Cam Ward, Tennessee Titans

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