Tornadoes hit Tennessee, killing at least 19 people
Tornadoes ripped across Tennessee early Tuesday, shredding at least 40 buildings and killing at least 19 people. One of the twisters caused severe damage across downtown Nashville, destroying the stained glass in a historic church and leaving hundreds of people homeless.
‘He grew me up’: An inside look at the bond between Mississippi State receiver JaVonta Payton and his mother
Monday, the mother and child combination will join together in Nashville once more as MSU takes on Louisville in the Music City Bowl.
Mississippi State women’s golf falls a spot to seventh at Mason Rudolph Invite
The Bulldogs shot 6-over par as a team Saturday, putting them at 9-over after two rounds. Host Vanderbilt is in first place at 1-under overall.
Tears flow as victims of Waffle House shooting remembered
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 stream of customers came in to the Nashville restaurant Wednesday to show support.
Waffle House suspect’s ex-bosses asked FBI to keep, help him
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 custody after he was arrested at the White House last year.
Waffle House slaying suspect arrested after massive manhunt
The mentally unstable gunman suspected of killing four people in a late-night shooting at a Waffle House restaurant was arrested near his apartment Monday after hiding from police for more than a day, authorities said.
Man who snatched AR-15 from gunman: ‘It was life or death’
The man who snatched an AR-15 rifle from a gunman at a busy Tennessee restaurant says his was a “selfish” act of self-preservation and he doesn’t consider himself a hero. Never mind that he is being credited with saving several other lives.
Waffle House suspect still being sought; Nashville residents on alert
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 beware of the alleged killer.
Nashville mayor resigns after affair, pleads guilty to theft
Mayor Megan Barry, a one-time rising star in the Democratic Party with big plans to remake Nashville, resigned Tuesday after pleading guilty to cheating the city out of thousands of dollars to carry on an affair with her bodyguard.
Tennessee church shooting suspect charged with murder
Witnesses and police described a chaotic scene as a masked attacker armed with two guns shot seven people, killing one, in a Tennessee church before he was subdued.
Local man slain in Nashville laid to rest
A Columbus native returned home Saturday to be laid to rest, six days after his shooting death in Nashville, Tennessee.
Nashville rape case echoes sex assault by Stanford swimmer
The cases are tragically similar: Student-athletes at two elite universities accused of sex crimes against unconscious women. Yet one is given six months in a county jail, while the other is facing at least 15 years in prison.
Movie-theater attacker may have planned to set off explosion
The disturbed homeless man who attacked a movie theater with a pellet gun, an ax and pepper spray also had a propane tank and lighter fluid and may have been planning to set off an explosion, authorities said Thursday.
Nashville Music City Center abuzz with 100K bees on roof
Nashville’s Music City Center is now home to 100,000 bees as part of the venue’s sustainability initiative.
More violence at troubled Nashville juvenile jail
Despite its idyllic-sounding name, the Woodland Hills Youth Development Center had seen a decade of violent clashes, breakout attempts and attacks on guards.
Teens in custody after disturbance at detention center
Authorities have regained control after a disturbance at a Nashville juvenile detention center where more than 30 teens escaped earlier this week.
Ask Rufus: Nashville
A question arose last week about Nashville. Not Nashville, Tennessee, but Nashville, Lowndes County, Mississippi.
UAW drops appeal of defeat in vote
The United Auto Workers dropped its appeal of a worker vote against unionizing at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, a move that the union said should put pressure on Republican politicians to quickly approve incentives the German automaker is seeking to expand its lone U.S. assembly plant.
Country Music Museum grows to match genre
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is no longer bursting at the seams, thanks to a $100 million expansion that has more than doubled its space and allowed it to add more interactive and contemporary exhibits.
In the movies: Happenstance lands a Columbus painter and his artwork in a movie
If he wasn’t before, Bob Nolan of Columbus is now a firm believer in that old adage about being in the right place at the right time. The right place, as it turns out, was the garage of an apartment he and his wife have with their daughter in Franklin, Tenn. The right time was a warm day in May, when a production crew happened to be filming at the upscale apartment complex for a new motion picture.