MIDDAY GUEST: Giraffe Awards
David Bryant with The Positive Living Group joined our show to discuss details of the 4th Annual Giraffe Awards coming up in March. Click here for more information. For more news in the…
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3 West Tennessee State Penitentiary inmates indicted in attack of fellow prisoner
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE TENNESSEE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION: THREE WEST TENNESSEE STATE PENITENTIARY INMATES INDICTED IN ATTACK OF FELLOW PRISONER RIPLEY – A joint investigation by special agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and investigators with the Tennessee Department…
Vehicle collision halts morning traffic in north Jackson
JACKSON, Tenn. -- First responders were on the scene of a multi-vehicle wreck Wednesday morning in the Hub City. Tipsters alerted us to the collision, which occurred along the 2000 block of North Highland Avenue, near George A. Smith…
UPDATE: JPD confirms endangered teen located
UPDATE (2/7/24): Jackson Police confirm he has been located safe. JACKSON, Tenn.--Police are asking for your help in locating an endangered child. According to the Jackson Police Department's Facebook page, they're looking for Mar'qicus Nelson, 14. He's 5'-5", weighs…
Parents learn more about the dangers the internet can pose to children.
CROCKETT COUNTY, TENN-- Tuesday night parents of Crockett County Middle School students gathered in the cafeteria to listen to an agent from Homeland Security offer free parent safety training on the dangers of…
Young reenactor represents West Tennessee event in Nashville
JACKSON, Tenn. -- A young reenactor was dispatched to Nashville to represent an annual event. Wyatt Fields, 13, represented the Tennessee River Rendezvous after being invited to the 2024 Veterans Legislative Day in…
DA: Local rapper named ‘Big Phil’ receives sentence
JACKSON, Tenn. – District Attorney Jody Pickens announced that a local rapper named “Big Phil'' has been sentenced over drug and firearm possession. According to the news release, on October 15, 2020, Paul Michael Cheairs, or “Big Phil,” was pulled…
Holly Bobo Case: New developments, key witness admits to lying at trial
HARDIN COUNTY, Tenn. -- New details in the Holly Bobo case arise as a key witness confesses to lying on the stand. Zachary Adams (left), Holly Bobo (Center), Jason…
Gov. Bill Lee gets student-led tour of programs at Jackson State
JACKSON, Tenn. – Gov. Bill Lee visited Jackson State Community College on Tuesday, where he toured different labs such as robotics, capstone, and many more programs. For the last 10 years, Jackson State…
At 102 years old, veteran WWII pilot takes to the skies on a delightfully bumpy ride for charity
LONDON (AP) — A former Royal Air Forces pilot has taken to the skies in a Spitfire at 102 years old. 102-year-old Jack Hemmings AFC gestures after flying a Spitfire plane to mark 80th anniversary of…
City council votes on license plate reader tech, other items
JACKSON, Tenn. – The Jackson City Council met Tuesday morning for their February meeting. It was a fairly quick city council meeting that began with the council voting on a budget amendment for various…
Tennessee militia member planned to attack US border agents, feds say
A Tennessee militia member who told an undercover federal agent that the U.S. is “being invaded” by migrants was planning to travel to the southern border with a stockpile of weapons and commit acts of violence against federal border agents,…
Legislative staffer suspended after confrontation with 'Tennessee Three' member
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee legislative staffer has been placed on leave after Democratic state Rep. Justin Jones says the staffer yelled at him in a hallway. Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, speaks from House floor…
Los Angeles records nearly 400 mudslides during storm that has drenched Southern California
LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the wettest storms in Southern California history unleashed nearly 400 mudslides in the Los Angeles area after dumping more than half the amount of rainfall the city typically gets in a season in just two days,…
2nd of pair wanted in teen's death captured in Kentucky
DYERSBURG, Tenn. -- US Marshals say the second of two men wanted in connection to the death of a teen in Dyersburg has been captured in another state. Marshals say that 19-year-old Jeremiah Davis, of Humboldt, was captured in Mayfield,…
