NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Wildlife Federation has opened submissions for its wildlife and landscape photo contest, according to a news release. The release says the contest is in its seventh year, and photographers from across the state are encouraged to submit their best images that show Tennessee’s natural resources, the release says. Submissions opened on Sunday and can be…
Mr. James Clifford Climer, age 57, passed away on Wednesday, July 29,2021, at the Jackson Madison County General Hospital. All services are under the direction of the Bells Funeral Home. Mr. Climer was born on March 10, 1964, in Jackson, TN to the late Mr. Bobby Glyn Climer and Mrs. Mamie Lou Jones Climer. He was also preceded in death…
CEDAR GROVE, Tenn.– A U.S. Marine came back to where it all started to celebrate with his family. Derek Siler was promoted to Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps on Sunday and pinned by his own grandfather, a former marine. As a third generation Marine, Siler wanted to have a different kind of ceremony, which would bring him back…
MADISON COUNTY, Tenn.– West Tennesseans attended the second annual Kustoff family cookout. The cookout was held at the Barn at Snider Farms. Congressman David Kustoff and several state leaders attended the event. Kustoff wanted to bring people together to discuss issues they are concerned with. The congressman said he takes those concerns to Washington and uses their opinions when voting…
Forecast For Sunday Evening Into Monday, Issued Sunday August 1st, 6:41 PM: *A quick recap on the Saturday night and Sunday morning storms: Storms caused power outages overnight as what looked to be up to 70 mph winds on radar slammed through parts of Madison, Chester, Henderson, Decatur, and Benton counties. Power was reported out in several locations including 6800…
MADISON CO. Tenn. — Last night many people in West Tennessee experienced power outages and storm damage. “So last night, when we had the storms come through we started getting multiple reports of trees down, kind of scattered throughout the county,” said Chief Eric Turner, Madison Co. Fire Department. Madison County wasn’t the only county to experience storm damage. Gibson,…
(AP) — Forty years after its founding, MTV is relaunching. The media network unveiled a large scale “Moon Person” during a ceremony Sunday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The new design was inspired by a Moon Person image created this year by Kehinde Wiley. Wiley painted the portrait of former President Barack Obama for the Smithsonian…
TRENTON, Tenn. — A West Tennessee fire chief was arrested over the weekend after a wreck in Trenton. The Tennessee Highway Patrol says troopers responded to a crash with property damage at Lexington Street and 10th Street in Trenton on Saturday. According to the THP, officers on scene said Trenton Fire Chief Terrence Elam was driving his city issued Ford…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Saginaw Grant, a prolific Native American character actor and hereditary chief of the Sac & Fox Nation of Oklahoma, has died. He was 85. Grant’s publicist, Lani Carmichael, says Grant died peacefully in his sleep of natural causes on Wednesday at a private-care facility in Hollywood, California. Born July 20, 1936, in Pawnee, Oklahoma, Grant was…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Authorities on Saturday night reopened the Interstate 40 bridge linking Arkansas and Tennessee that had been closed ever since a crack was discovered in the span in May. The Hernando DeSoto Bridge reopened to the public for eastbound traffic on Saturday. The I-40 bridge over the Mississippi River was shut down May 11 after inspectors found…
