Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Retired police officer Larry Bushart spent 37 days in jail last year before authorities dropped the felony charge against him.
Linden hospital reopening shows hope for rural health | Healthcare Hollow
More than a dozen Tennessee small towns have watched their hospitals go dark. Linden is among them.
In Middle Tennessee, several hospitals are still haunted by a failed billing scheme
Part of Perry Community Hospital’s financial collapse was due to losing a contract with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, which is still demanding the hospital pay back $5 million in overbilling for inflated lab testing.
How Main Street Revitalization And Bottled Water Helped Turn Around One Rural Tennessee County
Listen Out in the woods of Perry County, Jim Bruner flips the switch on a stainless-steel pump. Up flows mineral water, about 52 degrees Fahrenheit, drawn from a mile below. “So it’s natural,” he says. “Natural artesian water, with natural alkalinity. It has a pH of about 8.3. The mineral content is in trace amounts. […]



