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Educational leaders meet for regional school board meeting

DECATUR COUNTY, Tenn. -- Educational leaders from across West Tennessee are meeting to discuss issues affecting local school systems. Every year in September the Tennessee School Boards Association holds meetings across Tennessee to…

UT Ag Extension, TSU hold hemp workshop in Jackson

JACKSON, Tenn. -- Farmers in West Tennessee had a chance to meet with experts about a crop growing in popularity. Tennessee State University and the University of Tennessee Ag Extension Center hosted a seven-hour workshop…

FHU celebrates record enrollment after 150 years

HENDERSON, Tenn. -- A local university is celebrating record enrollment and other achievements after 150 years. This is a big year for Freed-Hardeman University. "We had an institutional high enrollment this year of 2,117…

Tennessee appeals court says opioid producers can be sued

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Tennessee Court of Appeals has ruled that a lawsuit against opioid makers can move forward, overturning a lower court that had dismissed the claims. At issue is whether Tennessee's Drug Dealer Liability Act applies to…

University of Tennessee offers scholarship to bullied fan

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Florida fourth-grader who was bullied over his homemade University of Tennessee shirt has been offered a four-year scholarship to the school. School officials said Thursday the boy's scholarship would cover tuition and fees beginning in…

FBI seeks to ID man in sexual exploitation investigation

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation is asking the public to help identify a man who may have information in an ongoing sexual exploitation investigation. The man may have critical information regarding the identity of a child…

Nonprofit protests baptisms on Tennessee high school's field

SPRINGFIELD, Tenn. (AP) -- A nonprofit that advocates for the separation of church and state has filed a formal complaint about baptisms on the football field of a Tennessee high school. The Tennessean reports the Freedom From Religion Foundation wrote…

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