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Wild Day Of College Coaching Moves With Hirings, Firings, Protests
Florida and its athletic director reached into their pasts to find a new coach, and two more schools fired coaches even though their teams are heading to bowl games. Mississippi stayed in-house to fill...
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Vols AD Currie Defends Coaching Search, Vetting Of Schiano
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Tennessee athletic director John Currie is defending the process of his coaching search and vouching for the character of Greg Schiano one day after negotiations between the two...
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Choppy: Quiet No More
Disclosure: I am a 2002 Graduate of the University of Tennessee. I bit my tongue long enough. I stayed quiet long enough. I sat by and watched MY UNIVERSITY be taken hostage by a mob on Twitter,...
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Athletes, Entertainers Rush To Support Bullied Tennessee Boy
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A Tennessee woman’s video of her son recounting being bullied at middle school has prompted a wave of support from athletes and entertainers. Kimberly Jones said in a...
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Country Singer Daryle Singletary Dies At Age 46
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country singer Daryle Singletary, who sang songs like “I Let Her Lie” and “Too Much Fun,” has died. A publicist says Singletary died at his home in Lebanon, Tennessee on Monday...
View Article5 Dead After Tornado, Flooding From Central US Storms
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The death toll rose to at least five on Sunday after severe thunderstorms swept through the central U.S., spawning a tornado that flattened homes, gale force winds and...
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Fort Worth Double Murder Suspect Found & Arrested In Tennessee
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – Police in Tennessee have confirmed that a double murder suspect from Fort Worth has been taken into custody. Paige Terrell Lawyer was arrested by the Murfreesboro Police...
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4 Killed In Tennessee Waffle House Shooting; Suspect Sought
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A nearly naked gunman wearing only a green jacket and brandishing an assault rifle stormed a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville early Sunday, shooting four people to death...
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Man Hailed As ‘Hero’ After Wrestling Rifle Away From Waffle House Shooter
(CBSNEWS) – A customer is being called a hero after he charged a gunman at a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee. Police are searching for 29-year-old Travis Reinking in connection with Sunday’s...
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Star Athlete, Musical Artist Describe Victims Of Waffle House Shooting
(CBSNEWS) – Authorities have identified the victims of Sunday’s shooting that left four people dead at a Waffle House in Tennessee. They were identified as 29-year-old Taurean C. Sanderlin, 20-year-old...
View ArticleSearch Continues For Waffle House Suspect; Residents On Alert
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As an intensive manhunt continues for the suspect in a Waffle House restaurant shooting that killed four people, police are warning residents of a Nashville neighborhood to...
View ArticlePolice Find, Arrest Nashville Waffle House Shooting Suspect
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The suspect in a quadruple homicide at a Nashville Waffle House was taken into custody Monday, police said. Authorities had mounted a massive manhunt for 29-year-old...
View ArticleWaffle House Shooter’s Guns Were Seized But Then Returned
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Travis Reinking exhibited multiple warning signs that he was mentally unstable: He talked openly about delusions that he was being stalked by Taylor Swift. He insisted unknown...
View ArticleWaffle House Shooting Suspect’s Ex-Bosses Asked FBI To Keep Him
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The co-owner of a Colorado crane company where the suspect in a deadly weekend shooting at a Nashville restaurant once worked said she had urged federal officials to keep him in...
View ArticleTears Flow As Victims Of Waffle House Shooting Remembered
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Employees at a Waffle House where four people were killed in a weekend shooting rampage wore orange ribbons, hugged each other and wept as the restaurant re-opened. And a steady...
View ArticleMom Turns In Son After Seeing His Mugshot On The News
MEMPHIS, TN (CBS Local) – A mother in Tennessee turned her “disobedient, disrespectful” son in to the police after seeing his photo on the news. Adrian Perry also apologized to a couple her son...
View ArticlePolice: 1 Man Kills Another, Surrenders At Nashville Mall
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One 22-year-old man ended a fight with another by fatally shooting him inside a Tennessee mall on Thursday, and then gave up his weapon and surrendered, saying he didn’t want...
View ArticleDolly Parton Pays Surprise Visit To Tennessee Senior Center
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country music superstar Dolly Parton has paid a surprise visit to a senior center in Tennessee, where she sang, lifted weights and joked about her age. The Knoxville News...
View ArticleAmazon Charges Woman $1,000 To Ship Paper Plates Less Than 300 Miles
GALLATIN, TN (CBS Local) – A woman in Tennessee is regretting her decision to buy paper plates on Amazon after the online giant charged her over $1,000 in shipping fees. Lorie Galloway of Gallatin says...
View ArticleCouple Unknowingly Both Plan Proposals On the Same Day
(CBSNEWS) – They both liked it, so they both put a ring on it. When one Tennessee couple went to the Memphis Zoo on Friday, they each had a secret plan to pop the question. The Memphis Zoo is a special...
View ArticlePerson Dies At Bonnaroo Music Festival In Tennessee
MANCHESTER, Tenn. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Officials say a person has died while attending the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee. News outlets report Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves confirmed a...
View ArticleOminous UFO-Like Cloud Identified As Rare “Roll Cloud”
(CBSNEWS) – Earlier this month, people near Memphis, Tennessee, spotted an odd formation in the sky after a storm. It was an ominous, cylindrical mass that some likened to a UFO. The mysterious sight...
View ArticleWWE Wrestler Kane Wins Mayor’s Race In Tennessee
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Glenn Jacobs, the WWE wrestler known as Kane, has won the bout for mayor in Tennessee’s third largest county. Jacobs, a Republican who also runs an insurance and real estate...
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Kindergarteners Learn To Sign ‘Happy Birthday’ For Hard-Of-Hearing Custodian
(CBSNEWS) – Kindergartners in a Tennessee elementary school learned “Happy Birthday” in sign language to surprise their hard-of-hearing custodian on his 60th birthday. The song was caught on video —...
View ArticleCar Salesman Accused Of Kidnapping Paralyzed Man, Robbing Him Of $200K...
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Authorities in North Texas arrested a car salesman accused of kidnapping a paralyzed Tennessee man and forcing him to hand over nearly $200,000 cash. Cedar Hill police Lt....
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Texans’ Ryan Griffin Charged With Drunkenly Punching Out Hotel Window At NFL...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Houston Texans player Ryan Griffin has been arrested for drunkenly punching out a front window of a downtown Nashville hotel as the city hosts the NFL Draft, police...
View ArticleTennessee Murder Suspect Shot, Killed After Stabbing West Texas Deputy
GAINES COUNTY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Police say a Connecticut man accused in the fatal stabbing of a Nashville, Tennessee man and the wounding of his wife has been fatally shot in West Texas after...
View ArticleNashville Reportedly The Leader To Host 2019 NFL Draft
The NFL Draft has become a traveling road show over the past several years, making stops in Chicago (2015 & 2016), Philadelphia (2017) and Dallas for this year’s version. According to ESPN’s Adam...
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Dale Earnhardt Jr, Wife, Baby Survive Plane Crash In Tennessee
ELIZABETHTON, Tennessee (CBS NEWS) – Dale Earnhardt Jr., his wife Amy and baby daughter survived a small plane crash in Tennessee on Thursday afternoon, authorities said. Earnhardt Jr. was hospitalized...
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Tennessee Christian Music Manager Accused Of Child Sex Crime In Texas
ABILENE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A Tennessee-based manager of Christian music artists is accused of indecency with a child for an incident that happened when he worked for a church in Texas more than...
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Teen Wanted For Murder Of 25-Year-Old In Arlington Arrested By US Marshals In...
ARLINGTON, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — A 19-year-old wanted in connection with a deadly shooting in Arlington is in custody in Tennessee. U.S. Marshals say they arrested Cedrick Duckett in North Memphis....
View ArticleArlington Native Maren Morris Wins Album Of The Year At CMAs, Garth Brooks...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – The Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday focused on honoring and highlighting women of country music and North Texas native Maren Morris was at the top as...
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21 Dead After 2 Tornadoes Touch Down In And Around Nashville, Tennessee
UPDATED: March 14, 2020 11:34 AM NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CBSNEWS.COM) – Tornadoes touched down across Tennessee Tuesday, killing at least 21 people and leaving an undetermined number missing, according to...
View ArticleTexas Teen With Autism Missing More Than A Week Found In Tennessee
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) – The Fort Worth parents of an autistic teenager who was reported missing from a boys’ ranch in Mississippi for more than a week were reunited with him after he was found...
View ArticleMore Than 750,000 Still Without Power In Laura’s Aftermath
LAKE CHARLES, La. (CBSDFW/AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people across Louisiana are still without power or water a day after Hurricane Laura sawed a devastating path through the state. The hurricane’s...
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2 Texas Residents Arrested In Connection To Murder In Tennessee
SAVANNAH, Tenn. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Two residents from Texas were arrested in Illinois in connection with a murder this week in Tennessee, authorities said Friday. Jeremy Byram, 26, was charged with...
View Article‘Love You So Much,’ Arlington’s Maren Morris Cancels Tour Due To Coronavirus...
ARLINGTON, Texas (CBDFW.COM) – Opening her latest social media message with “Hi, darlings,” Arlington native, and Country Western star Maren Morris announced she is canceling her RSVP tour, which was...
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Ex-Boyfriend Of James Faith’s Wife Arrested For Shooting And Killing Faith...
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Dallas Police said a murder suspect is in custody three months after the deadly shooting of James Faith, while he was walking his dog with his wife on the morning of Oct. 9, 2020....
View ArticleDemario Montague Arrested In Tennessee, Accused Of Pushing Man Out Of Moving...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service has confirmed a North Texas man suspected of killing a person by pushing them out of a moving car has been arrested in Tennessee. Demario...
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Couple (One-Half From Texas) Celebrates Anniversary At Whataburger Opening In...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (CBSDFW.COM/CNN) – A couple recently celebrated their anniversary at the opening of Middle Tennessee’s first Whataburger restaurant. Brittany Smith, who is originally from Texas,...
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