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Obama-chimp e-mail costs Walt Baker his job, business partner
9:37 AM on 03/09/2010
Walt Baker was fired Monday afternoon by both the Tennessee Hospitality Association and the Greater Nashville Hospitality Association - days after he created a political firestorm by forwarding an e-mail that compared first lady Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee...
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Parents angry at 'American Idol' contestant
8:17 AM on 02/22/2010
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Parents are complaining they never got refunds for performance fees in a failed musical production Todrick Hall wrote and directed...
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Tennessee diver becomes first black national champion
2:29 PM on 02/12/2010
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Michael Wright, a 22-year-old senior at Tennessee, won the title Monday at the USA Diving Winter National Championships...
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TheGrio Reflects: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
12:48 PM on 02/10/2010
VIDEO - "The Queen Of Soul", "Lady Soul"..."Re-Re"... Whatever you call her... You have got to give her some R-E-S-P-E-C-T...
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From the 'Blind Side' to the bright side
4:43 PM on 11/30/2009
VIDEO - The Blind Side tells the story of the Tuohy family's unlikely addition...
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Should push for mandatory paternity tests be abandoned?
8:00 AM on 11/20/2009
OPINION - Creative solutions are required for the serious crisis of absent fathers. The issue of mandatory paternity testing helps to shine a light on the problem, but it will take more than a DNA result to make better fathers.
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Iverson and Grizzlies call it quits
5:42 PM on 11/16/2009
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- The Allen Iverson experiment with the Memphis Grizzlies is over...
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3 University of Tennessee football players arrested for robbery
11:13 AM on 11/12/2009
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police say wide receiver Nu'Keese Richardson and defensive backs Janzen Jackson and Mike Edwards were arrested after an incident early Thursday...
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Teen dies in police custody
9:42 AM on 08/17/2009
Investigators in Tennessee are looking into how an 18-year-old man died while in police custody. The Daily News Journal in Murfreesboro reports that Andron Reed died after officers arrested him Friday night...
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Police: McNair murdered by girlfriend
6:14 PM on 07/08/2009
Former NFL star Steve McNair was shot dead in his sleep last week by a 20-year-old girlfriend distraught about mounting financial problems and her belief that he was seeing someone else, police said on Wednesday.
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Mrs. McNair didn't know about affair
10:50 AM on 07/08/2009
An associate said Wednesday that the wife of ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair didn't know about Sahel Kazemi before the 20-year-old woman was found dead alongside her husband on the Fourth of July.
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White congressman faces tough primary in black TN district
7:43 AM on 06/18/2009
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Steve Cohen, a two-term white congressman from a mostly black House district, faces a bruising Democratic primary next year and race again will likely be at the center of the campaign...
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Racist email sent by Tennessee state worker stirs up controversy
4:07 PM on 06/16/2009
Democratic legislators in Tennessee demanded Monday that a state employee who works for a Republican lawmaker be fired for using a state computer to send a racist e-mail about President Barack Obama. Sherri Goforth, a legislative aide for Tennessee State Senator Diane Black, sent the e-mail last month to other...
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Bonnaroo Music Festival features African acts
8:15 AM on 06/13/2009
JAKE COYLE AP Entertainment Writer MANCHESTER, Tennessee (AP) -- The Bonnaroo Music Festival is large enough that it contains mini-festivals within itself. On Friday, one of the more vibrant and colorful stages was an African invasion. The African-influenced North Carolina band Toubab Krewe got things started, before giving way to...
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'All black people' asked to leave Wal-Mart
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, NJ (AP) - On Sunday evening at the store, a male voice calmly announced: "Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now."...
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