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From the HERE City State DeskBOSTON — The Nashville Predators start a two-game road swing Thursday night at TD Garden, where they meet a Boston team that has been one of the best in the NHL so far. Puck drop is set for 6 p.m. Central. Nashville sits at 3-2-3…
From the HERE City State DeskIRVING, Texas — Two Tennessee linebackers are in the running for the top academic honor in college football. On Wednesday the National Football Foundation put Arion Carter of the Vols and Nick Rinaldi of Vanderbilt on its 18-man short list for the William V. Campbell…
From the HERE City State DeskMEMPHIS, Tenn. — Ty Jerome opened the Grizzlies season with the best scoring night of his career, putting up 45 points as Memphis pulled away from the Utah Jazz for a 123-103 win Wednesday night at FedExForum. The veteran point guard had seven points inside…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK — The NFL said Tuesday it has no issue with how the Philadelphia Eagles cared for quarterback Jalen Hurts before and after his blood clot diagnosis, and the team will face no discipline. Hours later, the NFL Players Association said it knew of…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK — The New York Knicks raised their first championship banner since 1973 on Tuesday night, then watched a retooled Philadelphia 76ers team leave Madison Square Garden with a 106-100 win in the season opener for both clubs. Tyrese Maxey paced Philadelphia with a…
From the HERE City National DeskCOLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State is preparing to play the rest of the season without starting quarterback Julian Sayin, who is out indefinitely after hurting his throwing arm in Saturday’s win over Indiana. Coach Ryan Day said Tuesday the program will not set a timeline…
From the HERE City National DeskMILWAUKEE — Brandon Woodruff took a real step toward a World Series comeback on Tuesday, throwing 23 pitches of live batting practice at American Family Field to several of the Brewers regular hitters. His fastball sat at 90 to 92 mph in his first session…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK — The NFL is tightening security for Sunday’s Pittsburgh Steelers and New Orleans Saints game outside Paris, league officials said Tuesday, after rioting swept French cities over the weekend. Peter O’Reilly, the league executive who oversees international events, said at the fall owners…
From the HERE City National DeskCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Colorado College senior Charlie Flint has been chosen as the top women’s runner in the SCAC for the past week, the third time she has earned the conference honor this fall. The award follows her victory Saturday at the Augustana Interregional…
From the HERE City National DeskWILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Top-ranked Emory closed with the best team round of the final day to win the women’s NCAA Division III Fall Preview on Tuesday, finishing 36 holes on the River Course at Kingsmill Resort at 18-over-par 594. The Eagles began the day in…
From the HERE City National DeskCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Kate Chambon’s first college meet earned her a conference award, as the Colorado College freshman was chosen as the top women’s swimmer in the SCAC for the past week. Chambon, who is from Grenoble, France, took the 100-yard backstroke in 59.52…
From the HERE City National DeskSAN ANTONIO — Oklahoma City opened its season Tuesday night by beating the team that ended its last one. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 32 points and the Thunder led nearly wire to wire in a 116-104 win over the San Antonio Spurs at Frost Bank Center,…
Education
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Tennessee placed five colleges on a 2026 national list of the top schools for students who want careers on the business side of the music industry, a showing few states can match. The honorees are Middle Tennessee State University, Belmont University and Tennessee State University in the…
Education
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee families using state Education Freedom Scholarships can keep them after a three-judge court panel threw out the lawsuit that challenged the private-school voucher program, in a final order filed Monday in Davidson County Chancery Court. The panel held that the state constitution requires a system of…
Business
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jack Cawthon, whose barbecue joint helped bring people back to Nashville's Lower Broadway long before the honky-tonk boom, has died at age 80 after a long fight with cancer, his restaurant company announced Wednesday. Cawthon spent more than half a century in food and hospitality. He rose…
Crime
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A federal judge has ordered a 28-year-old Tullahoma man to spend 210 months, or 17 and a half years, behind bars for burning a building at the Highlander Center in New Market and for trying to help a foreign terrorist group, the U.S. Department of Justice announced…
From the HERE City State Desk
MONTEREY, Tenn. — A ruptured natural gas line near the Muddy Pond community in Overton County brought crews from several counties racing to the Upper Cumberland on Wednesday, but responders
Politics
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — People who rent homes or storefronts in Nashville would start getting letters about proposed rezonings near them under a Metro Council bill that cleared its first reading this week. Today, Metro is only required to notify owners of land inside a 1,000-foot ring around a site up…
Politics
CINCINNATI, Ohio — A federal appeals panel on Wednesday took up the fight over a Tennessee law that lets police order onlookers to keep 25 feet away while officers work, a rule a group of news organizations says is too vague to survive. Under the Tennessee Bystander Interference Act, passed…
Politics
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Two recent looks at how Tennesseans view President Donald Trump point in different directions as early voting continues ahead of the Nov. 3 election. Tracking from the online pollster Civiqs, last updated Oct. 19, has the president slightly underwater in the state. In mid-October, 44% of residents…
Health
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — One of Tennessee's largest HIV service providers has taken the state Department of Health to court over new rules that would require immigration status checks for people who rely on Ryan White, the federal HIV/AIDS care program. Nashville CARES filed the lawsuit Monday in Davidson County Chancery…
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