JACKSON, Tenn. — With COVID-19 case numbers continuing to rise, the Jackson-Madison County Regional Health Department, West Tennessee Healthcare officials, and government leaders are talking about the growing problem. Health officials have seen the highest numbers of positive cases and hospitalizations in the county since the pandemic began. However, they are hoping they are seeing indications of the delta variant…
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is seeking help in locating a man on the TBI’s Most Wanted List. The TBI says 39-year-old Horatio Lewis Rice is wanted by the Shelbyville Police Department, and is facing charges of attempted first-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a weapon. The TBI says a $2,500 award is being…
Buel Austin “Buddy” Carroll, Jr., age 80, resident of Bartlett, Tennessee, departed this life Sunday, September 12, 2021 at Methodist LeBonheur Germantown Hospital. Buddy was born February 23, 1941 in Dresden, Tennessee, the son of the late Buel Austin Carroll, Sr. and Ludie Virginia Hillard Carroll. He graduated from Clarksville High School in 1959, Memphis State University in 1962 and…
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The powerful sister of North Korea’s leader has criticized South Korean President Moon Jae-in and threatened a “complete destruction” of relations hours after Moon said South Korea’s growing missile capabilities will serve as a “sure deterrence” against North Korean provocations. Moon made the comments after South Korea’s first successful test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile….
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The University of Memphis says $1 million has been endowed to the Senior Class Gift program. (Photo courtesy: University of Memphis) According to a news release, the endowment comes from George and Betty Johnson, who created the program in 2015, and match the contributions made to it. “I was familiar with similar programs at other colleges,” said…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles has told Congress that the FBI and gymnastics officials turned a “blind eye” to USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of her and hundreds of other women. Biles told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that “enough is enough” as she and three other U.S. gymnasts spoke in stark emotional terms…
NEW YORK (AP) — A rarely seen Tennessee Williams short story confirms his longtime passion for Italy and reveals concerns about how Italians felt about Americans. “The Summer Woman” appears this week in the fall issue of the literary quarterly The Strand Magazine. Williams wrote the story in the early 1950s. It tells of an American academic described as “the…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s Attorneys General is joining an opposition to the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. In a letter, Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III, along with 22 other attorneys general, say the new legislation would allow the federal government to take over state elections. The letter says in part: “The bill, as introduced, would allow the United…
CHARLOTTE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man has been sentenced to 51 years in prison in the death of his 5-year-old son, who was reported missing in 2018 and hasn’t been found. News outlets report a judge in Dickson County handed down the sentence Tuesday for Joseph Daniels after nearly three hours of testimony. Daniels was convicted in June of…
