WAVERLY, Tenn. (AP) — Search crews are working through shattered homes and tangled debris in Tennessee, looking for dozens of people still missing after record-breaking rain unleashed floods that killed at least 22 people. Saturday’s flooding took out roads, cellphone towers and telephone lines in a rural area northwest of Nashville, leaving people uncertain about whether family and friends survived….
JACKSON, Tenn. — A local family is remembering one of their own after he was shot by one of his friends. Demetris Cole was shot 10 years ago and his family wanted to honor him on what would’ve been a special day. “He’s gone, it’s hard everyday. I used to take my obituaries and I used to thumbtack them to…
HUMPHREYS CO.,Tenn. — A community recovers from a record breaking flood. Middle Tennessee experienced record breaking floods on Saturday. Around twenty bodies have been declared deceased, while nearly 40 people are still missing. “Yesterday morning when I got up, I looked out the back door and the creek was already at the bank level. And I told my daughter we…
Doris “Dotti” Frederiksen 1947 – 2021 Doris Mae “Dotti” Rhea Frederiksen, age 74, resident of Olive Branch, Mississippi and wife of Eddy Frederiksen, departed this life Saturday evening, August 21, 2021 at the Methodist Hospice Residence in Memphis, Tennessee. Dotti was born January 31, 1947 in Shelby County, Tennessee, the daughter of the late Willie Rhea and Nellie Mae Miller…
UNDATED (AP) – Facebook is trying to pull in workplace users with a new virtual-reality app called Horizon Workrooms. Workrooms lets people meet remotely in a virtual space populated by avatars. It’s an app for Facebook’s headset, which costs at least $300 and weighs a pound. People without a headset can join with a video call. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg…
Weather Update – Sunday, August 22 – 3:45 PM YESTERDAY: A rare flooding event took place yesterday in Middle Tennessee. The system traveled more easterly than expected, dropping 17″ of rain in McEwen, Tennessee in less than 24 hours-Where 9.34″ of rainfall fell in only 3 hours. This broke the previous record for 24 hour rainfall accumulation in Middle Tennessee…
Wilbur “Skip” Schultz 1945 – 2021 Wilbur Allen “Skip” Schultz, age 76, resident of Oakland, Tennessee and husband of Janet McClain Schultz, departed this life Thursday afternoon, August 19, 2021 at his home. Wilbur was born January 5, 1945 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the son of the late Rev. Wilbur R. Schultz and Naomi Sue Hutchings Schultz. He graduated in…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Titans coach Mike Vrabel says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and has quarantined pending further testing. Vrabel told reporters he had a sore throat and an earache. He went to the team headquarters Sunday morning to be tested, and the result came back positive. He originally was scheduled to meet with reporters in person….
ALISTRATI, Greece (AP) – Persephone is not your ordinary robot. Billed as the world’s first robot used as a tour guide inside a cave, Persephone has been welcoming visitors to the Alistrati cave in northern Greece since mid-July. The multilingual robot covers the first 150 meters (500 feet) of the tour and a human guide takes over for the rest….
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Don Everly, one-half of the pioneering rock ‘n’ roll Everly Brothers, has died. He was 84. The Los Angeles Times reports that a family spokesperson confirmed Everly died Saturday at his home in Nashville, Tennessee. His brother, Phil Everly, died in January 2014. In the late 1950s and 1960s, the duo molded rock ‘n’ roll with…
