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Tennessee

NashVillager Podcast: Kiffin Rockwell, Tennessee’s hero of France

By Nina Cardona

May 18, 2026

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How did a Tennessee-born ad agency employee become a French WWI flying ace?  Plus, the local news for May 18, 2026.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: history, Military, Tennessee, World War I

NashVillager Podcast: Tennessee’s history-making gun

By Nina Cardona

May 15, 2026

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What’s behind all the drama in the Rutherford County Assessor’s office? Plus, the local news for May 13, 2026.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: firearms, history, Military, military weapon, Tennessee

NashVillager Podcast: Tennessee and Israel

By Nina Cardona

May 14, 2026

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What’s behind all the drama in the Rutherford County Assessor’s office? Plus, the local news for May 13, 2026.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: history, Israel, Tennessee

Hot money summer: Tennessee Treasury wants to reunite you with your long lost dollars

By Seth Thorpe

May 2, 2026

Ever wonder what happens to paychecks, bank accounts and refunds that get lost or never delivered to the owner? In Tennessee, it’s likely turned over to the state Treasury Department’s Unclaimed Property Division. 

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Tennessee, unclaimed money

Nashville sued the state four times last year. Here’s where those lawsuits stand today.

By Cynthia Abrams

January 4, 2024

The state approved at least seven preemption laws. The city filed lawsuits against four: an attempt to reduce the size of Metro Council by half, the undoing of a charter referendum pertaining to the fairgrounds racetrack demolition and overhauls of the Airport and Sports Authority boards.

Filed Under: Metro, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, Airport Authority, Bristol Motor Speedway, Fairgrounds racetrack, metro, Metro Government, Nashville, Preemption, Preemption bills, Sports Authority, state legislature, Tennessee

As you like it: Improvised Shakespeare comes to TPAC this weekend

By LaTonya Turner

November 10, 2023

The cast of Improvised Shakespeare
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Friends, Nashvillians, countrymen, lend me your ears: The Improvised Shakespeare Company will be at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center for two performances on Nov. 10 and 11. It’s improvised theater — unscripted, unpredictable and funny — using the language and rhymes of Shakespeare.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Arts, comedy, improv, Improvised Shakespeare, improvised theater, Nashville, performing arts, Shakespeare, Tennessee, theatre, TPAC

Hundreds gather in downtown Nashville to protest SCOTUS decision striking Roe v. Wade

By Jackie LlanosandAmbriehl Crutchfield

June 24, 2022

Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Historic Metro Courthouse in downtown Nashville on Friday evening to protest the end of legal abortions in Tennessee.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, abortion rights, Nashville, Nashville courthouse, protest, Tennessee

Tennessee’s anti-abortion advocates are celebrating, and eyeing next steps in the abortion battle

By Rose Gilbert

June 24, 2022

Tennessee Right to Life
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Tennessee anti-abortion advocates are celebrating the overturning of Roe v. Wade and discussing the future of anti-abortion activism in the state. 

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, pregnancy, Tennessee, Tennessee Right to Life

How Tennessee’s Planned Parenthood providers are preparing for the end of abortion access

By Julia Ritchey

June 24, 2022

Planned Parenthood

Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, told reporters on Friday that they are booked with patients through July 1, and are trying to see people as quickly as they can before a ban goes into effect.

Filed Under: Abortion Live Updates, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Abortion, clinics, Healthcare, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy, Tennessee

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