State Rep. Pat Marsh, R-Shelbyville, has been unanimously elected by his peers to serve as Speaker Pro Tempore for the 113th Tennessee General Assembly. Read moreRep. Pat Marsh elected as state House speaker pro tempore
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Three from Lincoln County High School’s Falcon football team received Class 5-A - Region 6 honors during the team’s awards banquet. From left are Hank Sorrells, a senior; Hunter Hammons, a junior; and Aron Jones, a senior. Read moreFalcons Football - All Region
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Fayetteville City Schools has been awarded a $4,000 Utrust mini-grant, made in honor of Pam Bryson, second from left, a Fayetteville City school board member, who became a trustee on the Utrust Board last July. The Trustee Choice grant provided that Bryson could choose to use the grant for w… Read moreUtrust grant in honor of Bryson
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A University of Michigan student is one of the world’s foremost “speedcubers,” a person capable of quickly solving a Rubik’s Cube. He also is an accomplished violinist. Stanley Chapel says the two fields go hand in hand and the violin has aided in his speedcubing success. The 21-year-old is the world champion in two categories of blindfolded speedcubing. Factoring in the time it takes for him to review the cube before placing the blindfold over his eyes, Chapel can solve one in around 17 seconds. The junior majoring in violin performance intends to defend his titles later this year in South Korea.
Billy Packer, an Emmy award-winning college basketball broadcaster who covered 34 Final Fours for NBC and CBS, has died at 82. Packer's son, Mark, told The Associated Press on Thursday night that his father had been hospitalized for the past three weeks and had several medical issues, and ultimately succumbed to kidney failure. Packer’s broadcasting career coincided with the growth of college basketball. He worked as analyst or color commentator on every Final Four from 1975 to 2008.
A federal appeals court has ordered a Detroit museum to hold onto an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh amid a Brazilian collector’s dispute with the museum over the painting. The Detroit News reports that Wednesday’s order from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati comes days after a federal judge in Detroit dismissed a lawsuit filed by collector Gustavo Soter’s art brokerage company. That suit claims Soter bought the painting of a woman with a book, titled “The Novel Reader,” in 2017 for $3.7 million, but that a “third party” took possession of the art, which has been missing for nearly six years. The oil-on-canvas painting was part of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ recent “Van Gogh in America” exhibition.
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Fayetteville City Schools has been awarded a $4,000 Utrust mini-grant, made in honor of Pam Bryson, second from left, a Fayetteville City school board member, who became a trustee on the Utrust Board last July. The Trustee Choice grant provided that Bryson could choose to use the grant for w… Read moreUtrust grant in honor of Bryson