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Education
Sherrie Ford, R-Lookout Valley, was sworn in Wednesday night to fill an open District 11 seat on the Hamilton County school board, left vacant by Democrat Jill Black…
By REBECCA SANTANA
Tennessee Republican lawmakers are ready to change the state's death penalty laws in the wake of two botched executions by lethal injection, including a renewed look at electrocution and firing squads.
A Tennessee Republican senator says the Senate GOP caucus has "no basis" to expel her for endorsing an independent gubernatorial candidate as a Senate speakership vote approaches.
Republican candidate for governor Rick Jackson will skip President Donald Trump's upcoming rally in middle Georgia this weekend, opting instead to campaign in suburban Atlanta as as the race, which polling averages indicate is a virtual tie, enters its final stretch.
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A new federal program that expands Pell Grant eligibility to short-term workforce training has yet to add any approved programs in Tennessee.
Georgia candidates up and down the ballot are campaigning on an issue that has struck a nerve across the political spectrum: data centers.
Gov. Bill Lee made a universal voucher program into the centerpiece of his education agenda. The next governor — and perhaps as importantly, the next General Assembly — will determine if that program is expanded, scaled back or ends entirely.
U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche joined federal and state leaders in Tennessee on Friday to tout the record of the Memphis Safe Task Force a little more than one year after President Donald Trump first established the multi-agency crime-fighting force.
Fifth-generation Kansas farmer Glenn Brunkow describes this time of year as “go time,” when farmers are combining fields, hauling crops to town and moving livestock from summer pastures to their winter homes.
No response from Blackburn to only nonpartisan, public candidate event of gubernatorial election
