CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A Jackson native graduates as a new firefighter. According to information received from the family, one Jackson native graduated as a new fireman for the city of Chattanooga. Courtesy of Chattanooga Fire Department Her name is Zanah Kent. She graduated from Madison Academic in Jackson back in 2012. Kent is the only female graduate for this class…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal health officials are delaying a decision on whether to snuff out a major e-cigarette brand. The Food and Drug Administration has held off its ruling on Juul, a popular vaping brand for adults and many teens. Parents, politicians and anti-tobacco advocates have been pushing the FDA for years to ban Juul products, which deliver high doses…
(CBS Newspath) — On September 11th, 2001, terrorists hijacked American Airlines flight 77 and then flew it into the Pentagon. Hanna and Heather Born were in the Pentagon’s daycare center that day. Twenty years later, they are carrying on the legacy of the members of the military killed in the attack. Hanna talks about what she remembers from that day….
RICHMOND,Va. (AP) — Workers at the site in Richmond, Virginia, where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was taken down this week have installed a new time capsule within the statue’s massive pedestal. A state government official confirmed the installation was completed Saturday morning. It contains remembrances of current events, including those related to COVID-19 and protests over…
Former President Donald Trump has commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by visiting a fire station and police precinct in New York, where he criticized his successor for the way he pulled out of Afghanistan last month. Trump skipped joining President Joe Biden and other past presidents at official 9/11 memorial ceremonies Saturday at the World Trade…
(CBS NEWSPATH) — POTHOLE TREE: A banana tree popped up in a strange place recently – inside a pothole in Fort Myers, FL. People in the area say it was planted to make a point about all the potholes on the road. Here’s how drivers reacted: Watch here. Categories: Video
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Country singer Brett Eldredge had an encounter with a bear in a garage at a North Carolina home. The Charlotte Observer reports Eldredge says he opened the garage door at a home in Asheville and was about to go on a hike when he saw the bear pulling on a trash bin and trying to pry…
(AP) — Michael Constantine, an Emmy Award-winning character actor who reached worldwide fame playing the Windex bottle-toting father of the bride in the 2002 film “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” has died. Michael Constantine was 94. He made appearances on such TV shows as “My Favorite Martian,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Bonanza,” “Hogan’s Heroes,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “The Fugitive,”…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee officials say a ninth county has a confirmed case of chronic wasting disease in deer. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency says tests confirmed the condition in Henry County in a 3 1/2-year-old doe that was thin and exhibiting strange behavior. The state says the disease has been found in white-tailed deer in Chester, Fayette, Hardeman,…
A federal judge has thrown out all charges against a University of Tennessee professor accused of hiding his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving research grants from NASA. Anming Hu was arrested in February, charged with wire fraud and making false statements. In June, the judge declared a mistrial after the jury deadlocked. On Thursday, the judge acquitted Hu….
