NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell joined Gov. Bill Lee in celebrating a newly enacted law requiring all Tennessee high schools to keep an automated external defibrillator available during classes, athletic practices and games. Lee signed the legislation earlier this year, but held a formal ceremony Tuesday marking the “Smart Heart Act” at Nashville’s Pearl-Cohn High School.
Tennessee governor OKs bill allowing death penalty for child rape convictions
Gov. Bill Lee has approved legislation allowing the death penalty in child rape convictions, a change the Republican-controlled Statehouse championed amid concerns that the U.S. Supreme Court has banned capital punishment in such cases.
Tennessee House kills bill that would have banned local officials from studying, funding reparations
Tennessee’s Republican-dominant House has spiked legislation that would have banned local governments from paying to study or dispense money for reparations for slavery. The move marked a rare defeat on a GOP-backed proposal initially introduced nearly one year ago.
Progressive candidates are increasingly sharing their own abortion stories after Roe’s demise
A growing number of progressive candidates are choosing to tell their own abortion stories. And they’re doing so more frequently in states that banned abortion after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Tennessee lawmakers seek to require parental permission before children join social media
Tennessee’s GOP-dominant Senate on Monday unanimously signed off on legislation requiring minors to have parental consent to create social media accounts.
Tennessee lawmakers pass bill to require anti-abortion group video, or comparable, in public schools
Tennessee would become the latest state to require public school students to watch a video on fetal development produced by an anti-abortion group, or something comparable, under legislation heading to Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s desk.
Missing college student’s body found in Cumberland River; no foul play suspected
Police previously said the 22-year-old Strain was last seen just before 10 p.m. on March 8 after drinking downtown. A massive search had been underway ever since, with just small clues available to help investigators trying to find him.
Tennessee Senate advances nearly $2 billion business tax cut, refund to prevent lawsuit
The Tennessee Senate has approved a nearly $2 billion tax and refund for businesses, a proposal designed to prevent threats of a potential lawsuit. However, critics warn the so-called solution was rushed without being properly vetted and shrouded in mystery.
James Burton, John Anderson and Toby Keith join the Country Music Hall of Fame
The Country Music Association announced the 2024 inductees on Monday in Nashville, Tennessee. The three will be formally inducted during a ceremony in the fall.
Asked to clear up abortion bans, GOP leaders blame doctors and misinformation for the confusion
In Republican-led states across the U.S., conservative legislators are refusing to reevaluate abortion bans — even as doctors and patients insist the laws’ exceptions are dangerously unclear, resulting in denied treatment to some pregnant women in need.
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