PINSON, Tenn. — A local insurance company brought people together Wednesday for a golf scramble at Woodland Hills Golf Course to raise money for local high school baseball team South Side Hawks. Ebbco Insurance agent Eric Bynum said the Ebbco Insurance Golf Scramble is about more than just a charity. He says it all started through networking. “Ron Plemons, the…
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A federal judge in Knoxville has sentenced a Pennsylvania man to life in prison for a multistate bank robbery-kidnapping spree. U.S. Attorney Nancy Stallard Harr announced Tuesday that Michael Benanti of Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania, received four consecutive life sentences plus an additional 155 years. After trial in February, Benanti was convicted of 23 charges, including conspiracy…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A new report released by a group of Tennessee educator preparation programs focuses on eliminating the barriers preventing diverse candidates from choosing teaching as a career. The Tennessean reports the Trailblazer Coalition is led by Lipscomb University, Belmont University and the Nashville Teacher Residency and released its report Tuesday, titled “Fixing the Broken Pipeline: Teacher Diversity…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – Alpha Natural Resources says it has agreed to convey 280 permits, reclamation equipment, royalty payments and 100 million tons of coal reserves in four states to Lexington Coal Co. According to Alpha, Lexington will get $204 million at closing and $112 million in installments to help with bonding, reclamation, water treatment and other obligations. The deal,…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Gov. Bill Haslam has awarded grants to a pair of Tennessee College of Applied Technology institutions in West Tennessee. Haslam’s office says in a news release Wednesday that Community Development Block Grants have been awarded to the technology schools in Covington and Ripley. The Covington location received $3.2 million to construct a health care training facility…
DYER COUNTY, Tenn. — A Newbern man was killed in a Wednesday morning crash on Interstate 155 in Dyersburg. Brian K. Butler, 50, of Newbern was killed in the crash that occurred around 7:30 a.m. near mile marker 10 on I-155, according to a report from the Tennessee Highway Patrol. Butler was driving a John Deere tractor in the westbound…
MADISON COUNTY, Tenn. — Troopers are working the scene of a tractor-trailer fire on Interstate 40 in Madison County east of Jackson. The scene is at mile marker 90 in the westbound lane, and traffic is backed up in both directions, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol. No one was injured, according to Fire Marshal Don Friddle of the Madison…
Weather Update – 8:00 a.m. Thursday A Heat Advisory is now in effect all of west Tennessee until 7 p.m. Friday. The heat index could reach between 105°F and 109°F at the warmest points of the afternoon in these areas. But no matter where you live in West Tennessee, it’s going to be hot! Temperatures will be slow to cool…
HENDERSON COUNTY, Tenn. — An overturned delivery truck had traffic backed up for miles and miles Wednesday morning as the Tennessee Highway Patrol worked to clean up the wreckage. The crash brought morning rush-hour traffic to a complete stop. THP officials say they believe the load the truck was carrying shifted, causing the truck to overturn. Officials say it happened…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee woman is charged with attempted murder after authorities say she tried to smother her son at a hospital. News outlets report 22-year-old Alexis Bagwell was arrested Monday after a Metro Nashville Police investigation found she tried to harm her son on two occasions while he was at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in January 2016. Police…
