Tennessee
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Rural Tennessee needs family doctors. Can $200K lure them to the state’s small towns?
In a small clinic room in Sparta, Tennessee, Dr. Ty Webb moved his chair near his 70-year-old patient and encouraged her progress with weight loss and smoking.

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Lincoln Day Dinner: GOP gubernatorial candidates talk growth, business, preserving Tennessee culture
Blackburn and Rose attend Hamilton County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner

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Residential real estate: What you get for $800k in the Chattanooga area
This is an occasional feature in the Chattanooga Times Free Press exploring what kinds of homes are available in various price ranges. Today, we look at homes at or near a $800,000 asking price.

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Personal Finance: SpaceX IPO bends the rules
Elon Musk made history again this month with the largest public offering of a company in the history of the known universe.

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BBB notes rise in employment scams – especially offers for ‘video boosters’
Over the past three years, nearly 50,000 people have reported employment scams to BBB Scam Tracker. In 2025 alone, those reports surged, more than doubling the number received the previous year.

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Guards at privately run Tennessee prison to wear body cameras
Tennessee's private-prison operator is paying the cost of equipping officers with body cams at besieged Trousdale Turner, but much of the video captured in the delayed pilot program will not be subject to the state's Public Records Act.

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Memphis-Shelby County Schools sue Tennessee over state takeover
Memphis-Shelby County school leaders are suing top Tennessee Republicans in an effort to stop a new takeover law from diverting power away from the locally elected school board to a new board of political appointees.

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Tennessee child rape death penalty law paves path for Supreme Court decision
State Rep. Greg Martin, R-Hixson, said it's likely a matter of time before a bill he sponsored that was signed into law in April prompts a case and ruling before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Chair of Hamilton County GOP says all kinds of Republicans welcome at Lincoln dinner
Gail Greene, chair of the Hamilton County GOP, said all kinds of Republicans, from moderate to conservative, have a spot in the party and a seat at Saturday's Lincoln Day Dinner, the county party's biggest fundraiser and gathering.

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Tennessee soybean farmers get morale boost from better prices, but future remains ‘daunting’
Crops are in the ground, the weather is cooperating, soybean prices are up slightly from 2025, and China – the biggest buyer of U.S. soybean exports – is once again placing orders after a trade agreement ended the country's purchasing freeze last fall.
