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Mr. & Miss FHU named at annual ceremony

HENDERSON, Tenn. -- A local university awards one of its highest honors to a few students. Freed-Hardeman University recognized eight students as nominees for Mr. and Miss FHU Thursday morning.…

3 arrested in Henderson County drug investigation

LEXINGTON, Tenn. -- Three people have been arrested following an ongoing drug investigation in Henderson County. According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, 36-year-old William Corey Hayes, 32-year-old…

Trump lawyer cross examines rape accuser at rape trial

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyer is going on the attack against writer E. Jean Carroll’s claims that she was raped by Trump in the 1990s. The former president's attorney used cross examination Thursday to try to discredit the…

What passed during the 2023 Tennessee lawmaking session?

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Tennessee’s Republican-dominant Statehouse quickly adjourned last week after the expulsion of two Democratic lawmakers, failure to act on gun control after a deadly school shooting and the resignation of a Republican lawmaker for a workplace harassment…

Jerry Springer, politician-turned-TV ringmaster, dies at 79

CINCINNATI (AP) — Jerry Springer, the former Cincinnati mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show unleashed strippers, homewreckers and skinheads to brawl and spew obscenities on weekday afternoons, has died. He was 79. A family spokesperson said he died…

US sues Tennessee over ban on care for transgender youth

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s new law banning transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming care. According to the federal government, the statute should be blocked because it discriminates against people because of their…

US adult cigarette smoking rate hits new all-time low

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. adults are smoking less. Cigarette smoking dropped to another new all-time low last year, with 1 in 9 adults saying they were current smokers. Meanwhile, e-cigarette use rose, to about 1 in 17 adults. That’s…

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