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Wednesday Night Forecast Update

Wednesday Night Forecast Update for September 8th: Wednesday’s cold front brought a round of rain showers to West Tennessee in the afternoon but will be ushering in some fall like temperatures overnight into Thursday morning. Most of our region will fall down to the low-mid 50s. Mild and sunny weather is on the way for the end of the work…

Maria Mercedes Aguilar

ENHANCE_NONE Maria Mercedes Aguilar, age 59, passed away on Monday, September 6, 2021, at the Jackson Madison County General Hospital.  Funeral Services will be conducted on Thursday, September 9, 2021, at 1:00 P.M. in the Chapel of the Bells Funeral Home with Father Jonathan Perez officiating. Mrs. Maria was born on April 3, 1962, in Cheran, Michoacan to the late…

Donna Lee Hampton Jenkins

Donna Lee Hampton Jenkins, age 62, resident of Oakland, Tennessee and wife of Kenneth Jenkins, departed this life Monday evening, September 6, 2021 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Collierville, Tennessee. Donna was born June 25, 1959 in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of the late David Lee Hampton and Yvonne Wells Hampton. She graduated from Bartlett High School and was married…

Australian court rules media liable for Facebook comments

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s highest court has made a landmark ruling that media outlets are “publishers” of allegedly defamatory comments posted by third parties on their official Facebook pages. The High Court on Wednesday dismissed an argument by some of Australia’s largest media organizations that for people to be a publishers, they must be aware of the defamatory content…

Toddler in Pentagon daycare on 9/11 talks about attack

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. Categories: Video

Suits draw mixed rulings for Tennessee school mask opt-out

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Lawsuits have drawn mixed results in opposite ends of Tennessee for Gov. Bill Lee’s order that lets parents opt out of school mask requirements. On Tuesday, a federal judge in East Tennessee declined to temporarily block the directive after another judge last week paused the order specifically for the state’s largest county, Shelby County, which includes…