Deck the bridge with lights a plenty, fa la la la la, la la la la! North America’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge, in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, is showing its holiday spirit. “Lights over Gatlinburg” at SkyLift Park started on Thursday. The bridge, which sits 140 feet over the mountain town, has been transformed into a tunnel of multicolored […]
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Police in Tennessee arrested a man named Tupac A. Shakur, 40, after they say he pulled a knife on them and was found with methamphetamine. Officers with the Johnson City Police Department, about 25 minutes from Bristol, received calls Friday about Shakur, who had active warrants for his arrest from another department, according to a news […]
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Authorities are searching for the killer of a soldier who had returned home just months before he was fatally shot, Tennessee police say. Jacob Bishop, 35, was a father of two who came back to Lenoir City after serving a year in Poland with the Tennessee Army National Guard, the Loudon County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. His mother […]
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Police said a suspect is in custody after a deadly stabbing in Antioch that killed two, including a 13-year-old boy, and injured a 16-year-old girl. The call came in around 2 a.m. Monday on Sonoma Trace. Metro Police Spokesperson Don Aaron said 37-year-old Jermaine Agee broke into the home, got a “butcher-type knife” from the […]
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Channing Smith, a 16-year-old from Manchester, Tennessee, took his own life on September 23 after two classmates publicized screenshots of explicit text conversations he had with another young man. Now, the Smith family is demanding justice for the teen — and in the process, they’re raising awareness of the dangers of cyber bullying. Channing’s story […]
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Members of the University of Tennessee marching band got to be some of the first people to wear the wildly popular anti-bullying T-shirt inspired by a 4th-grade fan, who was teased for his homemade shirt. The band, known as The Pride of the Southland, wore the shirts under their traditional uniforms on Saturday at the […]
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Eighteen years after the 9/11 terror attacks, little Christina Brown brought some joy — and excitement — to this somber day in history. Doctors at a Memphis-area hospital delivered the baby girl by C-section at 9:11 p.m. on Wednesday, September 11. When the nurses placed her on the scales, they called out, “Oh my gosh, […]
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Melinda Major was asleep in her hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee, on Friday morning when she felt something moving around on her arm. She was in town from Nashville for a doctor’s appointment and at first she thought it might have been her husband, until she remembered he wasn’t there with her. When she finally […]
