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The Waffle House Index helps Southerners — and FEMA — gauge a storm’s severity
If a Waffle House stays open in town, even in a limited capacity, neighbors are reassured that the coming storm is unlikely to cause devastation. A closed location of the dependable diner chain has come to indicate impending disaster. The metric is known as the Waffle House Index.
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Texas carries out nation’s first execution since Christa Pike’s failed lethal injection
A Texas man who fatally shot a convenience store clerk was put to death Wednesday evening, becoming the 30th person executed in the U.S. this year and the first since Tennessee's failed attempt to administer a lethal injection to Christa Pike a week ago.
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Scientists win chemistry Nobel for discoveries about mirrored molecules that led to many drugs
Scientists Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs and transformed modern medicine.
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Pasquali’s Pix: Dawgs dealing with unknowns before Alabama trip
The anticipated college football showdown between No. 2 Georgia and No. 6 Alabama inside Bryant-Denny Stadium on Saturday could be altered by Tropical Storm Isaias.
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Dolly Parton’s multifaceted legacy showcased at Nashville museum and hotel
Dolly Parton's longtime creative director, Steve Summers, designed hundreds of dresses and outfits for the late singer and entertainer every year, so he saw her in many stages of her career.
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Chattanooga Whiskey ‘full proof’ tour opens tap on 4K-gallon barrel
Chattanoogans can get a two-hour peek behind the curtain at how their local whiskey distillery has earned national and international acclaim for bourbons with a complex, toasty flavor.
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Reason for reversal on replacement Moccasin Bend hospital site remains a mystery
Five days after the state's surprise announcement of a new site for Moccasin Bend Mental Health Institute in Chattanooga's Lookout Valley, state officials just as suddenly reversed the decision with no discussion.
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Attacks on Saudi airports claimed by Houthi rebels kill 3 people, officials say
Two attacks on airports in Saudi Arabia claimed by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen killed three people Wednesday, Saudi officials said, as the kingdom was pulled deeper into the latest front in the Iran war.
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Former Alabama football coach Dennis Franchione dies at 75
Dennis Franchione, the longtime college football coach who turned around TCU before stops at Alabama and Texas A&M, has died. He was 75.
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Cornell gang-rape accuser was ‘misled’ about criminal investigation, her lawyer says
The woman accusing several men of raping her at a Cornell University fraternity party was “misled” about the status of the criminal investigation in the weeks after she went to police, her lawyer said Wednesday.
