Tennessee
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As Tennessee prepares to ramp up executions again, here’s the drug it will use
If Oscar Smith is executed as scheduled on May 22 at Nashville's Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, he will be killed with a lethal dose of the barbiturate pentobarbital.
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This lender said its loans would help Tennesseans. It has sued more than 110,000 of them.
Rosita Hansen was working an evening shift at a tubing factory in 2023 when a sheriff's deputy showed up and handed her a court summons.
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Civil rights leaders say acquittals in Tyre Nichols’ death highlight the need for police reform
After three former Memphis police officers were acquitted Wednesday in the beating death of Tyre Nichols, community and civil rights leaders expressed outrage over another disappointment in the long push for police reform.
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Vacancies leave TVA board handcuffed for May meeting
The gathering marked the first time the panel lacked enough members to muster a quorum in 25 years
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Vanderbilt poll: Tennesseans largely against cuts to Social Security, health care
Tennesseans, regardless of political party affiliation, are against cuts to federal programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, according to a new statewide poll.
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Hamilton County jury acquits Memphis officers in fatal beating of Tyre Nichols
Three former Memphis officers were acquitted Wednesday of all state charges, including second-degree murder, in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after he ran away from a traffic stop in 2023.
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Investor letter urges Ford, BlueOval SK to address reported union-busting, engagement concerns
A group of Ford Motor Co. investors sent a letter to the company's board, asking it to address concerns over reported union-busting activity at a Kentucky battery plant and lack of engagement with Black communities surrounding its BlueOval City project in Tennessee.
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For Tennessee charities, helping immigrants carries new legal risks
A Tennessee charity that knowingly helps an unauthorized immigrant with long-term housing can be held civilly liable for a crime that person commits under a measure signed into law late last week by Gov. Bill Lee.
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Jury begins deliberating fate of 3 former Memphis officers charged in Tyre Nichols’ death
The fate of three former Memphis police officers charged in the beating of Tyre Nichols was in the hands of 12 people who do not live in the city as jury deliberations began Tuesday in the 29-year-old Black man's death.
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What hemp products will be banned in Tennessee next year?
A few short years after allowing the retail sale of cannabis for the first time, Tennessee lawmakers moved to limit the sales of certain types of hemp-derived products beginning in 2026.
