FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WSMV) – The school board in Williamson County voted on Monday night to prohibit students from using cellphones on its elementary and middle school campuses. After amending the language of the policy, the board voted 10-2 to approve the new policy, which requires elementary and middle school students to lock away their phones…
An attorney for a man charged with killing four members of the same family told a judge on Monday that he plans to request that a jury from outside the county hear the case, which set a swath of rural Tennessee on edge as the man eluded authorities for a week after the shootings. Austin…
Two law enforcement vehicles crashed in Tennessee on Friday night while supporting Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade, sending a police officer to the hospital in critical condition, authorities said. The crash in Maryville, about 17 miles south of Knoxville, involved a state trooper and a Maryville Police Department motorcycle officer, the city said in a…
Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal injection. Nichols was sentenced to death in 1990 after he was convicted of raping and murdering Karen Pulley, a 21-year-old student at Chattanooga State…
Power shifts begin in places most people never see – on assembly lines making batteries and robots, along transmission lines feeding data centre clusters, in local offices selling land and in labs training artificial intelligence models. The United States and China are using these quiet levers to construct different futures. The contest will be decided…
Newly released footage has surfaced showing former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler refusing to take a field sobriety test before his arrest for DUI in October 2024. The footage, which offers a clearer look at the tense exchange, begins with police responding to the scene of Cutler’s minor fender bender with another vehicle. The situation quickly…
How goats are solving the invasive plant problem on Tennessee River island – CBS News Watch CBS News A popular camping ground on the Tennessee River was overrun by vegetation and desperately needed a trimming. As Dave Malkoff reports, the search for a landscaper led to an unlikely solution. Source link
The names of 16 people who are presumed dead in the massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant last week have been released. Their remains have not been identified, as authorities continue search efforts following the Friday explosion at Accurate Energetic Systems in McEwen, but Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis and Hickman County Sheriff Jason…
Just miles from a rural Tennessee plant leveled by a devastating explosion, the congregants of Maple Valley Baptist Church devoted Sunday’s service to the 16 deceased victims and their families. Several of the dozens of people praying at the small church knew someone who worked at the plant owned by Accurate Energetic Systems, which supplies…
10/11: CBS Weekend News – CBS News Watch CBS News Israelis credit President Trump with ceasefire deal, hostage release; Creative musicians turn trash to instruments and a landfill to theater. Source link