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  • Tennessee sends search and rescue team to Oklahoma

    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee-based team of emergency service workers has gone to Oklahoma to help with tornado recovery. Memphis Fire Department spokesman Wayne Cooke said that Tennessee Task Force 1 left early Tuesday from Memphis. Cooke says the 80-member team will mostly help with search and rescue efforts after powerful and deadly tornadoes struck cities in Oklahoma on Sunday and ...

  • Tennessee City Debates Red Light Cameras

    A group in Murfreesboro has started a petition to end the use of red-light cameras, but police say the traffic enforcement measure has improve safety. Middle Tennessee State University student Axl David, who heads Citizens Against Photo Enforcement, said he plans to submit the petition to City Council after 1,000 people have signed it. The group complains that the city uses the cameras to ...

  • Sir Elton John Ray Davies and Elvis Costello to play Hyde Park summer festival

    The artists will be taking the stage for the Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park events which also feature performances by Bon Jovi and The Rolling ...

  • Father charged with leaving kids in hot car

    A father is facing charges after police said he left his young kids in a hot car Monday in the Gulch area of downtown. Police said the dad, Tranquilo Camaja-Lajon, went to orientation for a new job and brought his kids along with him. According to jail records, the car was unlocked with the kids inside at 12th Avenue and Laurel Street. Someone noticed a 2 and 4-year-old sweating in the back ...

  • Rescuers dig through rubble after deadly OK tornado

    Residents in tornado-stricken Moore, OK, awaited news on missing love ones Tuesday, a day after a massive tornado devastated the city, killing at least 51. The death toll is expected to rise as emergency crews search through the rubble left behind. The medical examiner's office said it expected around 40 bodies, half of them children, not added to the count, according to CNN. ...


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The Exorcism of Emily Rose

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

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  • Driver slams into power pole on White Bridge Road

    Power was knocked out to thousands of residents in Nashville overnight after a truck slammed into a pole on White Bridge Road. The crash happened at about 10:50 p.m. Monday near Corbett Lane. As of 6 a.m., some lanes of White Bridge Road are still shut down as crews work to repair the problem. Despite the truck being totaled, the driver was not hurt and taken to the Metro Jail. The driver, ...

  • TN residents gather items to help OK tornado victims

    Tennesseans didn't waste time assembling resources to help Oklahoma tornado victims following Monday's storms. Members of the Churches of Christ Disaster Relief, located at 410 Allied Drive, are busy Tuesday loading up a tractor-trailer will supplies like toiletries, non-perishable food and water to Moore, OK. On Wednesday at 10 a.m., hundreds of volunteers will be loading up ...

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    A cropped photograph depicts singer Elvis Presley's bust. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) If you could go back in time to meet Elvis Presley and ask him only one question, what would that question be? Chances are, it would be thought provoking, provocative and help you to better understand who Elvis was and what made him tick--something undiscovered that uniquely defines who The King was or ...

  • More troops due back at Fort Campbell

    FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) -- Families and friends will be meeting loved ones this week at Fort Campbell, where more soldier are returning to the post on the Kentucky-Tennessee from ...

  • Tornado levels Oklahoma town killing at least 51

    (RNN) - At least 51 people have died after a second day of tornadoes twisted through Oklahoma, this time taking aim at the town of Moore, south of Oklahoma City. At least 20 of the dead are children, according to CNN. The death toll is expected to rise as the search continued through the night, the wreckage lit by flood lamps. The National Weather Service described the storm as large and ...

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