Mayor Wonders If We Need WWII-Style Internment Camps After Paris Attacks


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WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is set to consider on Jan. 9 whether it will hear appeals of same-sex couples’ marriage challenges in cases out of five states, one of the legal teams representing the couples told BuzzFeed News on Monday ( Read more... )

WITH the success of Republicans in the midterm elections and the passage of Tennessee’s anti-abortion amendment, we can expect ongoing efforts to ban abortion and advance the “personhood” rights of fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses.

But it is not just those who support abortion rights who have reason to worry. Anti-abortion measures pose a risk ( Read more... )

CINCINNATI (AP) - The march toward gay marriage across the U.S. hit a roadblock Thursday when a federal appeals court upheld laws against the practice in four states, creating a split in the legal system that increases the chances the Supreme Court will step in to decide the issue once and for all ( Read more... )

CLARKSVILLE, TENN. - Hours after four dead puppies were found inside a Clarksville home Thursday, deputies in Sumner County went to a Cottontown home and found 37 bags containing animal remains and seized 39 live dogs from the woman who claimed she was running a non-profit organization that rescued dogs and trained them as service animals ( Read more... )

A third man has been indicted in federal court in a cross-burning case in Minor Hill.

Timothy Flanagan, 44, was indicted Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Nashville on charges of conspiracy against another’s rights, interference with housing rights and the use of fire to commit a felony. He and two other men are accused of burning a cross on a ( Read more... )

Tennessee Republicans Shoot Down $2 Million For Untested Rape Kits, Some Going Back To 1980s


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Just eleven days after Dorothy Chambers’ husband Daniel passed away, Nashville Electric Service (NES) shut her power off because the name on the account (currently under her husband’s name) had not been changed.

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Public colleges have sharply raised their prices since the 1990s in the face of declining state support, but a plan by Tennessee’s governor to make two years of community college and technical school free for all students represents a striking reversal of that trend ( Read more... )

Child severely injured while in foster care

CHATTANOOGA, TN (WRCB) -
Jennifer Palmer spent Monday at Erlanger Children's Hospital after a surprise knock at her door early in the morning.

"Police and DFCS lady came to my door, my case worker. She told me she had something bad to tell me about my daughter," Palmer explains. That's how she learned ( Read more... )