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In this May 24, 2017, file photo, Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., presides over a House Budget Committee meeting in Washington. Black announced on Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, that she is joining the Tennessee governor's race.
Former NFL Coaches Rex and Rob Ryan found themselves in the middle of a brawl at a Nashville bar over margaritas Saturday afternoon. A video went viral over the weekend showing former Jets and Bills head coach Rex and his brother Rob, who was a former defensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys, getting into a bar fight in Nashville, Tennessee.
Nashville courthouse to be named after former senator, actor Fred Thompson The federal courthouse in Nashville, Tenn., will be named after Fred Thompson, a former senator, presidential candidate and actor. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2rVsUno WASHINGTON - A bill to name the new federal courthouse in Nashville, Tenn., after former Sen. Fred Thompson has cleared its final hurdle in Congress and is awaiting President Trump's signature.
State Senator Mark Green joined Nashville-based financial services company Advance Financial in awarding $1,000 scholarships to eight outstanding Middle Tennessee high school seniors at the Advance Financial Foundation's Annual Scholarship Banquet. Students' applications were judged on academic activities, honors, goals and financial need.
The Senate confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Labor Department has been delayed until later this month. But a spokesman for the panel's chairman, Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, says the hearing will now be held on March 22. The spokesman, Taylor Haulsee, cites a scheduling conflict in which Alexander is to appear with Trump at an event in Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday to help promote Republicans' plan to repeal and replace Barack Obama's health care law.
President Donald Trump speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2017, during a meeting with leaders from small community banks. . FILE- In this March 6, 2012 file photo, an FBI poster showing a composite image of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, right, of how he would look like now after five years in captivity, and an image, center, taken f... .
Police in a Seattle suburb say they are seeking a white gunman after Indian Sikh man said he was shot in arm, told to "go back to your own country." . Police in a Seattle suburb say they are seeking a white gunman after Indian Sikh man said he was shot in arm, told to "go back to your own country."
China's top leadership... . Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is displayed on huge screens as he delivers a work report at the opening session of the annual National People's Congress at Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Sunday, March 5, 2017.
Karl Dean is running for governor of Tennessee in an uphill bid to become the first Democrat elected statewide in the Volunteer State since 2006. Casting himself as a pro-business moderate focused on education and jobs, the former Nashville mayor said he made the call after consultation with family, deciding he had "a reason and purpose" to run and determining there's a path for him to win in a state where Republicans have dominated in recent years.
After recent protests around the state Capitol in Nashville, some Republicans want a crackdown on demonstrators and tougher security requirements for entering the legislative office complex. Democrats are pushing back, arguing that access to lawmakers shouldn't be restricted only because many of the protesters oppose the policies of Republican President Donald Trump on issues including immigration, race, abortion and LGBT rights.
Rep. Jeremy Durham of Franklin talks to reporters as he leaves the Capitol before a vote to expel him from the House of Representatives was taken during a special session Tuesday Sept. 13, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn.
Future Health Professionals, the largest international organization for middle school, high school, and postsecondary/collegiate students with an interest in the health professions, will be holding its largest gathering of future health professionals in Nashville, Tennessee next week. HOSA-Future Health Professionals, the largest international organization for middle school, high school, and postsecondary/collegiate students with an interest in the health professions, will be holding its largest gathering of future health professionals in Nashville, Tennessee next week.
One of the reasons I really love the early history of Nashville is that it's a time rich with possibilities. Things weren't settled and they were very strange.
In this week's Viewpoint , Tom Humphrey, retired from the Knoxville News Sentinel , where he earned a reputation as the dean of Tennessee political writers, and now my colleague as a contributing editor of The Tennessee Journal , contributes some informed - and likely definitive - thoughts on the Republican candidates who will be vying in a 2018 gubernatorial contest which is about to get started in earnest. As Humphrey points out, Tennessee is now about as deep-dyed red in its political sentiments as can be, and the GOP has a built-in advantage.