Articles Tagged with Tennessee

Tyler Bray Stands Out Among SEC Undrafted

Tyler Bray one of few SEC players to go undrafted

Tyler Bray remaining undrafted stands out for a couple of different reasons. With the 2013 NFL Draft come and gone, the former Tennessee volunteer saw a whopping 63 of his SEC Conference compatriots selected by professional football teams. That number is more than twice the number of players that were selected from any other conference…. Read more »

Carrie Underwood Stays On The Offensive Over Tennessee Ag-Gag Bill

Carrie Underwood

Carrie Underwood isn’t happy with the Tennessee Ag-Gag bill, and she has taken to Twitter in an attempt to confront lawmakers in the state. Underwood, an animal rights activist, is upset that the bill would require journalists and other organizations to report all cases of animal abuse within 48-hours. Opponents of the bill claim that… Read more »

Honest Tennessee Man Turns In $3,800 Found In Trash

Honest Tennessee man returns lost cash

Murfreesboro, TN – A Good Samaritan poking around in a Speedy Mart dumpster collecting cans to be recycled for pennies apiece came upon the ultimate payday: $3,800 in cash wrapped in a plastic bag. “I didn’t think it was real,” Joe Ellis, the man who discovered the cash, told Nashville’s News 2. The bag contained… Read more »

Pigeon Forge Fire Smolders After Monday Rain

Forest fire

Pigeon Forge, TN – The forest fire that once stretched across 300 acres dwindled down to less than a single acre after a full day of around-the-clock efforts and an evening rain Monday. The fire damaged over 70 cabins at the Black Bear Ridge Resort and several private structures sprinkled throughout the heavily forested area… Read more »

Tennessee Wildfire Threatens Popular Tourist Destination

Tennessee wildfire threatens local city

Pigeon Forge, TN – A raging fire within a popular tourist city has stretched across 200 acres over the weekend, decimating property at the Black Bear Ridge Resort. East Tennessee crews are still fighting to tame the blaze. A wildfire has destroyed over 30 cabins at the Black Bear Ridge Resort and turned propane tanks… Read more »

Elton The ‘Gay’ Dog Rescued From Certain Death In Tennessee

Gay dog rescued

Jackson, TN – A Tennessee dog owner sent his pup to be euthanized because the dog was allegedly “gay.” Though the pup was scheduled to be put down at 1 pm today, he was rescued just in time. The original story went like this: After seeing his male pit bull/American bulldog mix “humping” another male… Read more »

Ohio Holiday Collision Kills Four [Breaking]

A family leaving a Christmas party in a minivan died when they went the wrong way on a southwestern Ohio highway and hit another minivan with a family going to see their grandparents. At 2:30 am on Interstate 75 near Franklin, the head-on collision took the lives of three adults and one seven-year-old boy and… Read more »

‘Super’ Window Washers Bring Smiles To Children’s Hospital

'Super' Window Washers Bring Smiles To Children's Hospital

Memphis, TN – Three window washers recently dressed up as superheroes as they cleaned the windows of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. According to TODAY, while pretending to be comic book heroes, the trio are real-life heroes to the patients and staff at the hospital. “The kids are normally tethered to their rooms at that time… Read more »

Tennessee Drivers Now Using iPads To Renew Drivers Licenses

Tennessee iPad Drivers License

Drivers in Tennessee can now visit their local DMV and use one of 72 iPad kiosk when renewing their drivers license. The program was implemented by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security at a cost of nearly $80,000. The new iPad renewal stations are offered throughout 26 of the states driver service centers… Read more »

Sen. Rand Paul Introduces Two New Anti-TSA Bits of Legislation

rand paul TSA

Sen. Rand Paul, like a vast many Americans who travel or who just don’t like having their business felt up by some rando at the airport in the name of inefficient security procedures, is no big fan of the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA. Rand Paul has had very public run-ins with the TSA, but… Read more »

Father of 30 Wants a Break on Child Support

father of 30 child support

A man who fathered 30- yes that’s thirty- children by the age of 33 feels that the child support he pays is too much of a burden and has implored the state of Tennessee to reduce his obligation. Desmond Hatchett is incredibly difficult to feel sorry for in this scenario, being as he has 11… Read more »

Tennessee Bill Encourages Teachers To Critique Theory Of Evolution

Tennessee Evolution Bill

The Tennessee legislature this week introduced a bill that would protect teachers who encourage their students to debate the theory of evolution. On the surface the bill appears to give way for lively discussion in the classroom however opponents of the proposal say it’s nothing more than a ruse to teach creationism or intelligent design… Read more »