UVA to pay $9M for shooting that killed 3, including 1 from Arlington High
The school in Charlottesville will pay $2 million each to the families of the three students, including former Arlington High football player Devin Chandler who died.
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Sports SEC gathers to sort through consequences of settlement, comes away with more questions than answers
Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin said college football is awkwardly stuck between two worlds: Trending toward professionalism but still rooted in a model tied to higher education.
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Sports SEC’s 8- or 9-game conference schedule debate on hold
After much discussion last year, the SEC locked in a short-term solution by agreeing to go with eight games for this season and next, but leaving open the possibility to change it in 2026.
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Metro New York jury finds Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts
Donald Trump has been convicted in his New York hush money trial, a landmark jury verdict making him the first former American president to be found guilty of felony crimes in the nation’s nearly 250-year history.
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Sports MLB has new career, season batting leader after Negro Leagues statistics incorporated
With the Negro leagues' statistics added to Major League Baseball, Gibson’s .372 batting average surpassed Ty Cobb’s .367. At age 18, Gibson played his first professional game for the Memphis Red Sox in 1930.
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Sports Roster sizes, the future of walk-ons and other topics on minds of SEC’s football coaches
Southeastern Conference football coaches are bracing for the impact of a potential downsizing of rosters around the NCAA.
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Education Logo Brands adds University of Memphis to strategic partnership program
The Tennessee-based company will exclusively produce a variety of merchandise categories, such as tents, chairs, soft-sided coolers and more, under contracts ranging from five to 10 years.
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Sports Tennessee Vols baseball gets top seed for NCAA Tournament; CWS pairings
The Tennessee Vols, fresh off their SEC baseball tournament title, were selected Monday as the top seed for the 2024 College Baseball Tournament.
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Sports Tennessee Lady Vols fall to Alabama in softball super regional
Tennessee won the best-of-three opener Friday but fell 3-2 in 14 innings Saturday and then lost Sunday’s deciding game, 4-1.
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Sports Tennessee Vols win SEC baseball title over LSU
Tennessee (49-11), the regular-season SEC champions, notched their fifth conference championship since the tournament began in 1977, most recently winning it in 2022 and including three straight from 1993-95.
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Sports NCAA, leagues sign off on plan that includes paying athletes
Student-athletes could start receiving millions of dollars as soon as the 2025 fall semester.
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Sports Rachel Heck helps Stanford win women’s NCAA golf title
Former St. Agnes standout delivers the final point and helps Stanford win its second NCAA championship in three years.
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State Government Tennessee to become first state to offer free diapers for Medicaid families
The recent funding approval comes as public health advocates say that families are increasingly struggling to afford enough diapers for their children.
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Education Tennessee is the latest state to mandate automatic defibrillators at high schools
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell joined Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday to celebrate Tennessee’s new law requiring all high schools to keep an automated external defibrillator available during classes, athletic practices and games.
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Sports Olive Branch’s Ricky Stenhouse could face suspension after throwing punch
The NASCAR driver threw a right hook at Kyle Busch, and suddenly, an otherwise boring All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway had NASCAR fans buzzing.
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State Government Gov. Lee OKs bill allowing death penalty for child-rape convictions
The new Tennessee law, which goes into effect July 1, authorizes the state to pursue capital punishment when an adult is convicted of aggravated rape of a child.
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Sports Texas A&M vs. Notre Dame headlines first weekend of college football TV lineup
ESPN announced its major matchups for Week 0 and Week 1 on Tuesday as part of its presentation to advertisers in New York.
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Sports Ole Miss, Lane Kiffin clean up in football transfer portal
The Rebels pick up multiple defensive players who might make Ole Miss the best non-Georgia team in SEC.
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Sports Memphian Doug Barron claims first PGA Tour Champions major
Doug Barron won the Regions Tradition on Sunday, May 12, for his first PGA Tour Champions major title, shooting a 4-under 68 to hold off Steven Alker by two strokes.
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Metro TVA ignores warnings in moving forward with new natural gas plant
The nation’s largest public utility is moving ahead with a plan for a new natural gas plant in Tennessee despite warnings that its environmental review of the project doesn’t comply with federal law.
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Metro Two dead in Tennessee after severe weather
The storms continue an outbreak of torrential rain and tornadoes that has cut across the country this week, from the Plains to the Midwest and now the southeastern U.S.
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Elections New lawsuit renews challenge to Tennessee laws targeting crossover voting in primary elections
A law passed last year requires polling places to post warning signs stating that it’s a crime for someone to vote in a political party’s primary if they are not a bona fide member of that party.
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Metro FedEx building in Michigan destroyed as storms lash Midwest
At one point an estimated 50 people were trapped in a FedEx building in Kalamazoo by downed power lines. All escaped, and a company spokesperson said there were no serious injuries despite the severe damage.
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Sports Former ECS star makes MLB history with two home runs in same inning
Brent Rooker, who lives in Germantown during the MLB offseason, is the 60th player in major league history to homer twice in an inning. The last A’s player to do it was Mark McGwire in 1996.
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State Government Transgender Tennesseans want birth certificate policy declared unconstitutional
The plaintiffs argue in court filings that sex is properly determined not by external genitalia but by gender identity, which they define in their brief as “a person’s core internal sense of their own gender.”
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