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Dr. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott Kings legacies will be observed by the community at Middle Tennessee State University on Jan. 16

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Middle Tennessee State University will observe the 27th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and a special evening ceremony and traditional candlelight vigil will be held in honor of the slain civil rights leader. The special event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16, in the second floor ballroom of the Student Union, 1768 MTSU Blvd. The university will be closed that day in observan...

The Cathy Wamsley Early Learning Center opened Thursday, Aug. 25, with a ribbon-cutting at Umatilla-Morrow Head Start in Hermiston with special guests Cathy Wamsley’s husband Thomas; son, Brady, and daughter,

MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee and his wife, MTSU first lady Elizabeth McPhee, received the NAACP’s President’s Awards from the Murfreesboro Branch of the NAACP for their ongoing community service

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee and his wife, MTSU first lady Elizabeth McPhee, were presented special awards Monday night by the Murfreesboro Branch of the NAACP for their ongoing community service and support of underserved student populations at the university and Murfreesboro City Schools.The McPhees were presented the NAACP’s President’s Awards during a virtual Martin Luther King Jr. and Social Justice Celebration broadcast.&l...

The criminal investigation into whether former Canaan cop-turned-state trooper Sam Provenza tampered with evidence crucial to a now-infamous 2017 traffic stop wrapped up more than two years ago.But since the investigation’s findings only became public...

monday more than 6,000 inmates were released from federal prison. now the prisoners were mostly african-american and latino men, all convicted on drug charges and more than half of them convicted in the south. many had already begun transitioning back to their communities by living first at half-way houses or under home confinement. the release comes a year after the u.s. sentencing commission reduced federal sentences for drug trafficking, then decided to applile new guidelines retroa...