SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say a small plane carrying seven people has crashed into a Tennessee lake. Authorities say at least one person has been killed. The Federal Aviation Administration says a Cessna C501 jet crashed into Percy Priest Lake near Smyrna after taking off from a nearby airport Saturday. It was not immediately known if there were any…
Weather Update – 4:30 p.m. – Saturday, May 29 TODAY: If you’ve been wishing for some cooler temperatures after those summer-like days, you’ve gotten your wish. We saw temperatures remaining in the lower to mid 60’s for most of the day today. Cloudy conditions made it feel like fall outside as well. The passing cold front dropped us by almost…
ADAMSVILLE, Tenn. — The 33rd Annual Buford Pusser Festival celebrates the last day of the event. The festival honors former McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser. Attendees were out to enjoy carnival rides and food as well as to visit the home and museum of Sheriff Pusser. The festival will continue into Saturday afternoon with bluegrass music from the ‘Wayne Jerrold…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – William Lee Golden of The Oak Ridge Boys says writing an autobiography is like getting naked in front of the whole world. He says he kept thinking, “If I was going to get naked in front of everyone, I probably shouldn’t have waited until I was 82 years old.” Golden’s book, “Behind the Beard,” covers his…
HANOI — Vietnam has discovered a new coronavirus variant that’s a hybrid of strains first found in India and the U.K., the Vietnamese health minister said. Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said Saturday that scientists identified the variant while examining the genetic makeup of the virus that had infected some recent patients. He said lab tests suggested it might spread…
(CBS Newspath)–Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. and cases are increasing, according to the American Cancer Society. With beach season here, experts want to remind us about sun safety tips to prevent skin cancer. Every sunburn counts, according to former acting surgeon general Dr. Boris Lushniak with the National Council on Skin Cancer Prevention. He says,…
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities searching the home of Samuel Cassidy say the man who gunned down nine co-workers at a California rail yard had stockpiled an arsenal that included a dozen guns, Molotov cocktails and 25,000 rounds of ammunition. Cassidy’s home in San Jose also was rigged to catch fire before he set off Wednesday on his deadly rampage…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Samuel E. Wright, the actor and singer who famously voiced “Sebastian the Crab” in Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” has died. His family says Wright died Monday in New York after a three-year bout with prostate cancer. Wright’s career spanned five decades; he got his start at South Carolina State University in the 1960s, and acted in…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California district attorney won’t seek a new death sentence against Scott Peterson, convicted in 2005 of murdering his pregnant wife Laci. In a filing Friday, the Stanislaus County district attorney’s office said it would drop efforts to restore the penalty thrown out last year by the state Supreme Court. The DA said the decision was…
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Actor Bill Cosby has been denied parole after refusing to participate in sex offender programs during his nearly three years in state prison in Pennsylvania. The 83-year-old Cosby has long said he would serve the full 10-year sentence rather than acknowledge wrongdoing and take part in the programs. This is the first year he was eligible for…
