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SportsCINCINNATI, Ohio — Nashville SC heads into Saturday’s regular-season finale at FC Cincinnati needing just one point to own the best regular season in MLS history. The Coyotes sit level with the 2024 Inter Miami team on 74 points, the league’s single-season high. A win…
From the HERE City State DeskKNOXVILLE, Tenn. — No. 10 Tennessee volleyball snapped a two-match skid Friday night at Food City Center, blanking Mississippi State 25-20, 25-14, 29-27 and collecting the Lady Vols 13th sweep of 2026. Kennedi Rogers paced the attack with 19 kills while hitting .341. Jalyn Stout…
Education
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Democratic pickups in the Tennessee House are changing the arithmetic for another drive to grow the Education Freedom Scholarship program that Governor-elect Marsha Blackburn put at the center of her campaign. Ninety-five House members voted in April on expanding the private-school scholarship plan. Support came from 52…
Business
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Lenders have lined up a major refinance in Nashville for Peabody Union, the riverfront mixed-use tower that now anchors a stretch of the South Bank district along the Cumberland River. A partnership of PGIM, Stiles Corp. and Hensler Development locked in $310 million of short-term debt from…
Business
SELMER, Tenn. — Electrification manufacturer ABB is committing another large capital outlay in McNairy County, a $50 million second expansion that state economic developers say will bring 227 jobs to Selmer. Governor Bill Lee and Stuart C. McWhorter, the state top economic development official, joined company executives for the announcement.…
Business
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. — Nuclear manufacturer BWXT is scaling up its Washington County campus with a $714.5 million build that state leaders say will add 181 positions and more than double the payroll already working there. Governor Bill Lee and Stuart C. McWhorter of the state economic development department unveiled the…
Politics
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Governor-elect Marsha Blackburn has stood up the people who will manage the handoff from Gov. Bill Lee, putting Stuart McWhorter in charge of both a five-person advisory committee and a campaign-heavy operating staff. On the advisory side, McWhorter will hear from former state Rep. Donna Barrett, Julie…
Politics
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Governor-elect Marsha Blackburn is not weighing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to fill the U.S. Senate seat she will vacate after she is sworn in as governor in January, according to a person familiar with private transition talks. Blackburn won the Nov. 3 governor race over Democrat Jerri…
Politics
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Chancellor Russell T. Perkins on Friday let death row inmates expand their statewide challenge to Tennessee lethal injection rules so the complaint can recount the failed attempts to execute Christa Pike and Tony Carruthers. Chancellor Russell T. Perkins granted a motion to supplement the Burns v. Strada…
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