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La Vergne, TN - National Telecommunicators Week is from April 9 to 15 this year and recognizes the dispatchers who dutifully answer 911 calls and calls for service. The La Vergne Police Department currently has nine dispatchers and three other officers and support staff that fill in as needed. These men and women are the first to answer the phone when you dial 911 and are vital to police and fire communications. The La Vergne communications center is staffed 24/7, often working long hours, mi ....

Local activists on Monday rallied in support of the Tennessee Three – a group of lawmakers who recently led gun control demonstrations on the House floor in response to last month’s elementary school shooting in Nashville.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — A scholar of American and German LGBTQ+ history will give a public talk during the upcoming LGBT Plus College Conference hosted at MTSU that explores the connections between the original pride symbol and the Holocaust. Jake Newsome, who holds a Ph.D. in history, will give the conference’s keynote address based on his book of the same title, “Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust,”...

One of the two Black Democrats who were expelled last week from the GOP-led Tennessee House has been reinstated.

Rutherford County, TN - It all started with a phone call from England... A Rutherford County couple traveling overseas became concerned when a woman who was a relative and house-sitting for them didn’t answer. They made repeated phone calls and even left messages for the house sitter this past week. Their concern started growing. They called a friend and asked for his help. The friend called the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office and asked for a deputy to check on the house ...

A prestigious medical school will see its first Black woman neurosurgery resident ever.

Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma. Subramanian on Tuesday advised people to wear masks amid rising in Covid-19 cases in the state.

Technology entrepreneur Calvin Collett will on Thursday introduce a new mobile virtual network operator that piggybacks on MTN’s network.

Health News - Despite the success of vaccines for preventing COVID-19, and of drugs for treating the disease, outcomes for severely ill patients admitted to the hospital remains poor. Identifying new therapies for severe COVID-19 remains a high priority and one in which Vanderbilt University Medical Center is taking a leading role. A study published April 11 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) evaluated two drugs that act on the renin-angiotensin ...