Tennessee State University president Dwayne Tucker has placed athletic director Mikki Allen on administrative leave following an internal investigation which was prompted by a vote of no confidence from six coaches at the school.
Hegseth again backs a low-altitude military flyover as maneuvers draw scrutiny
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is supporting low-altitude military flyovers as the maneuvers have faced scrutiny. Hegseth has previously dismissed safety investigations into other flyovers.
Indictments show five inmate murders, assaults and other violence at a Tennessee prison
A grand jury has issued 50 indictments involving five murdered inmates, assaults against staff and other violence at a Tennessee prison. The Lake County grand jury issued the indictments all related to the Northwest Correctional Complex, a state-run prison in Tiptonville. District Attorney Danny H. Goodman Jr. says those include murder charges related to inmates who were killed in five separate incidents in 2025 and 2026.
The family of a man shot by the Tennessee National Guard demands release of video
The grandfather of a man fatally killed by members of the Tennessee National Guard says he wants law enforcement to release video footage to see if it supports the police narrative that his 20-year-old grandson, Tyrin Johnson, turned toward U.S. guard members with a gun while fleeing.
The Latest: Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship; and trans athlete bans
The Supreme Court has upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. The court on Tuesday upheld laws in roughly half the states that prohibit transgender girls and women from playing on their public school and college sports.
FDA panel on peptides will include experts who promote the unproven chemicals favored by RFK Jr.
The FDA will meet to consider easing restrictions on several peptides, a group of unapproved drugs popular with followers of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. One panel member is Bobby Harshbarger, a Tennessee state senator who has multiple connections to the industry.
Chris Johnson, known as CJ2K for his 2,000 yards for Titans in ’09, reveals he has ALS
Chris Johnson, one of nine players in NFL history to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season who made the Pro Bowl in each of his first three years with the Tennessee Titans, revealed in a television interview aired Monday that he has ALS.
Japan falls to Brazil, ending Cup run for squad that trained in Nashville
The “Samurai Blue” lost Monday, ending a run in which the team has used Nashville for training.
In boost to Musk, Justice Department seeks to dismiss air pollution lawsuit against xAI data center
The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in North Mississippi and nearby Memphis.
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