Archives for March 2006

Emergency crews and public health workers in four midstate counties are gearing up for the nation’s largest emergency preparedness drill since Hurricane Katrina.

If elected to the U.S. Senate, Republican candidate Ed Bryant of Jackson says he will propose that Congress move to a two-year budget.

Democratic Congressman Harold Ford Junior of Memphis says the people of Tennessee are ready to see the end of a Republican majority in the U-S Senate.

A former US marine was in Nashville yesterday talking about his experiences as an African Union observer in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Sponsors of a bill that would cap spending in state government brought in two congressmen (today/yesterday) to rally support for their cause.

(Today/yesterday) the governor announced changes that will immediately affect the hiring and promotion practices of the state’s troubled Safety Department.

Several disability groups want Tennessee to pass legislation that would allow people with disabilities to receive at-home or community based health care, instead of being institutionalized.

Sumner County sheriff J-D Vandercook and his brother Jerry were arrested by federal agents (today/yesterday) after fraud indictments were handed down by a grand jury.

The first U.S. flag ever called ‘Old Glory’ is back in Tennessee on display at the Tennessee State Museum on loan from the Smithsonian Museum of American History.