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Haywood County Schools to close early Friday

HAYWOOD COUNTY, Tenn. -- Haywood County Schools announced they will be closing early.   Officials with the school say that students will be dismissed at 1 p.m. There will also be no after school activities. This comes as West Tennessee…

USJ cancels after school activities for Friday

JACKSON, Tenn. – The University School of Jackson is canceling after school activities due to weather. The school says that all after school care, practices and games are canceled for Friday, March 31. USJ adds that infants and toddlers will…

Funerals set for 3 of the Nashville school shooting victims

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Funeral arrangements were disclosed Thursday for one of the adults and two of the children who were killed in this week's school shooting in Nashville, as the grieving city mourns the victims of the horrific attack that…

Local tech earns high honor

JACKSON, Tenn. -- A local technician received a very high honor. ReNew Biomedical technician Josh Weatherford is the first technician in the world to complete the Association for the Advancement…

FACT FOCUS: No 'incredible rise' in transgender shooters

Moments after the assailant who killed six people at a Nashville private school was identified as transgender, a baseless narrative emerged: that there has been an incredible rise in transgender or nonbinary mass shooters in recent years. A…

Fundraiser to be held Saturday for veteran

GIBSON COUNTY, Tenn. -- A local man is receiving a celebration for his service. A community-wide fundraiser and celebration is being held Saturday in Gibson County to honor Air Force Veteran and…

Lawyer: Trump indicted; 1st ex-president charged with crime

A lawyer for Donald Trump said Thursday he's been told that the former president has been indicted in New York on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter. [caption id="attachment_1482610"…

911 calls reveal terror at Nashville school during attack

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities released 911 recordings on Thursday that capture the terror inside a Nashville elementary school during a mass shooting this week, as callers pleaded for help in hushed voices while sirens, crying and gunfire could be heard in…

Docs debunk vaccine myths, discuss misinformation challenges

JACKSON, Tenn. -- Experts with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health discussed the challenges that disinformation and misinformation have on the fight against COVID-19. The school's research estimates that in Summer 2021, dis- and misinformation caused 2-12…

Walking among ways to keep pets healthy

JACKSON, Tenn. -- March 30 is National Take a Walk in the Park Day, and some walkers may be taking their special fur friend out on a stroll. Walking your pet…

2 killed, 5 wounded in shooting outside Memphis restaurant

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Two men were killed and five other people were wounded in a shooting outside a restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee, police said Thursday. Police were looking for suspects after the shooting Wednesday night that authorities said began…

Man gets 25 years in roadside killing of Tennessee nurse

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The man who shot and killed a Tennessee nurse as she was driving to work two years ago was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday, according to the Nashville district attorney's office. In January,…

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