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  • Mother accused of having young daughter help steal from Walmart

    Metro police say a mother used her own daughter to help steal from a Nashville Walmart store. Officers were called to the business on Dickerson Pike on Tuesday after security guards said Kiara Steverson, 22, left without paying for merchandise. Steverson allegedly had her daughter keep an eye out for security, then had her daughter push the shopping cart out of the store. Steverson is ...

  • Parents activists push TN lawmakers for change in textbooks

    Tennessee lawmakers got an earful from parents Wednesday who are demanding that they have a say in what is in their children's school textbooks. It was supposed to be a routine hearing for the State Textbook Commission, which plays a part in reviewing and recommending textbooks for school districts to adopt. But after hearing from many parents about the content of those textbooks, ...

  • TN teachers say proposed plan amounts to a pay freeze

    There's a battle brewing between Tennessee's teachers and the state department of education over a plan the teachers believe will cost them thousands of dollars over the course of their careers. The state plans to change the way it pays teachers, and while some say it will help reward the best teachers, others say it's a pay freeze. "Over the term of their career, it ...

  • Channel 4 Kroger present Red Cross with check for disaster relief

    People still recovering from the deadly tornado outbreak last month in Oklahoma are getting a lot of help from generous folks in Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky. Kroger and Channel 4 presented a check on Wednesday to the American Red Cross for $132,000. After the disaster, grocery shoppers made donations totaling more than $82,000 at their check-out lanes, and Kroger added another ...

  • Williamson Co. coaches indicted after spectator struck with ball

    Two high school basketball coaches in Williamson County are now facing charges after an incident during a game earlier this year. Angela Muir worked as head coach for Summit High School, while Chloe Mayo was an assistant coach. During a game against Spring Hill in January, a Summit player threw a basketball toward the bleachers, striking a female Summit student, who was sitting on the floor ...


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Communion [DVD]

Communion [DVD]

"'Communion' was written to bring into question the idea of alien abduction. It was intended to enrich speculation about this experience by placing it in historical perspective and--at the same time--acknowledging its power and the startling sense of physical reality that accompanies it." --Whitley Strieber, from an article in "Publisher's Weekly," October 2, 1987 ...

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  • Country singer who helped at crash says firefighters deserve praise

    Country music star Craig Morgan said a recent crash on the interstate is proof of how hard people work at volunteer fire departments. Morgan was riding in his tour bus on Interstate 40 earlier this month, heading home to Dickson after wrapping up a tour, when three tractor trailers, including a tanker truck and a loaded horse trailer, crashed right in front of them in Humphreys County. ...

  • Tennessees deficit up to $3 million for year

    Tennessee's athletic department is expecting a budget deficit between $2 million and $3 million this year. That's a drop from $3.98 million a year ago according to a review at the university's board of trustees meeting Wednesday. The athletic department cut its 2012-13 budget to $99 million from $105.9 million. But revenue is expected to be no more than $97 million. University ...

  • Korean War veteran receives honorary high school diploma

    It's never too late to fulfill a dream, as an 84-year-old Korean War veteran proved Wednesday when he finally got received the high school diploma he always wanted. Now, William Duncan hopes other war veterans will do the same. "After more than 60 years of dreaming about this day, the honorary high school diploma of Tullahoma High School is issued by the State of Tennessee and ...

  • Christian artistproducer Buddy Miller to replace T-Bone Burnett on Nashville

    Local Americana and gospel music veteran artist/producer Buddy Miller has been named as the replacement for departing ABC's "Nashville" music producer T Bone Burnett, also a legendary Christian music icon. Burnett will not be returning for the second season of the series due to an overwhelming schedule, according to his wife and the show's creator, Callie ...

  • Recall Beef products possibly have E. coli contamination

    National Beef Packing Company - a Liberal, KS, establishment - is recalling approximately 22,737 pounds of raw ground beef products that may be contaminated ...

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