Hurricane Laura to bring heavy rains, strong storms to Tennessee Friday

The remnants of Hurricane Laura will likely make their way to Tennessee Friday. Here’s what the Nashville Weather Service is saying.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

Tennessee risks losing $50M in pandemic food aid as 217,000 eligible kids have not been enrolled

The program has been in place for months, but the deadline is quickly approaching.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

After Tennessee prison suicide, CoreCivic counselor fabricated health records of treatment: TDOC

Addison Smith killed himself in a Tennessee prison after warning multiple CoreCivic employees he was suicidal, then his health records were falsified.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

Metro Nashville Public Schools to stay virtual until fall break, K-2 among first to start in-person classes

Metro Nashville Public Schools Director Adrienne Battle announced that in-person classes for most students won’t resume until at least October.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

Nashville’s best outdoor dining: 15 of our favorite al fresco hot spots

From pizza to brew houses to barbecue to fine dining, here’s a list of awesome places you might feel safer eating outside during the pandemic         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

Tennessee’s revenue grew this year, despite dire predictions. But a drop is coming, experts warn

When the final tax revenues came this July, however, the grim estimates about the past several months proved too extreme.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

Fisk president Kevin Rome out after restraining order, court allegations

“The University thanks Dr. Rome for his service as president of Fisk and wishes the very best to him and his family,” a Fisk statement read.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

Say goodbye to the Nashville airport’s familiar brown carpeting

The familiar music-themed carpet at Nashville’s airport is being replaced with ‘calming’ flooring incorporating the ‘colors of Tennessee.’         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

In Nashville, coronavirus vaccine research is a footrace with no losers

Three coronavirus vaccines are in clinical trials in Nashville, and more are likely on the way. Volunteers are needed.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

Singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle dead at age 38

“It is with tremendous sadness that we inform you of the passing of our son, husband, father and friend Justin,” a Facebook post said Sunday night.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

New Titans QB Trevor Siemian catching up like ‘drinking through a fire hose’ as he vies for backup QB role

In every sense, Trevor Siemian was far from the grind of NFL training camp. And then he wasn’t.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

Nashville police killed two Black men. Now their moms fight for justice side by side

“I got to get to her,” Sheila Clemmons Lee thought the day she heard Vickie Hambrick’s son died. They’ve been like family ever since.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

What the first Friday night of Tennessee high school football during coronavirus pandemic looked like

The first Friday night of high school football was played during the coronavirus pandemic.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

Some Tennessee lawmakers became full-time unemployment problem solvers during the pandemic

In the COVID-19 pandemic and corresponding economic shutdown, over 30,000 Tennesseans contacted their representatives for help with unemployment.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

Sexual harassment lawsuit echoes claims of toxic culture at Nashville police department

The suit described “an atmosphere of intimidation and fear that would prevent any reasonable person from feeling secure” in the police department.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

After devastating tornado, a high school football game meant so much more in Putnam County | Estes

A healing community that has endured much in 2020 was able to join back together for Thursday night’s Upperman-Cookeville game.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

Equal Rights Amendment: Will women ever have equal rights under federal law?

Despite the ratification of the 19th Amendment, women’s rights advocates argued that women didn’t have equal rights under the law.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

With the struggles of remote learning, why educators say ‘it’s impossible to separate’ academics from digital access

Educators worry that the digital divide will only exacerbate long-standing inequities among students while they learn remotely.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

Vanderbilt football team has positive COVID-19 tests in first week of practice

There have been positive COVID-19 tests on the Vanderbilt football team in the opening week of preseason practice, a university spokesperson confirmed.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

TN July unemployment rate falls to 9.5%; what to know about the $300 federal weekly benefit

Tennessee’s unemployment rate fell to 9.5% in July, a slight decline from June’s revised rate of 9.6%.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

When the pandemic came, others ran away. These six Meharrians ‘ran to it’ and have been running Nashville testing sites ever since.

Meharry Medical College has been running three free COVID-19 testing sites in Nashville.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

TN removes COVID-19 language from absentee ballot application, adds reward for voter fraud tips

After a court ruling, a new Tennessee absentee ballot application does not mentioning COVID-19 while offering a $1,000 reward for reports of voter fraud.         Top Featured Tags: – Tennessee News Press Release Distribution Service

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