Author: Jonathan Mattise
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Nashville cleared the runway for an emergency. Pilot said ‘I’m too far away’
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Authorities say two adults and three children were killed when their small plane crashed just west of downtown Nashville
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14 GOP-led states have turned down federal money to feed low-income kids in the summer. Here’s why
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Most Republican governors turned down federal money to provide grocery help for low-income families with school-age kids over the summer
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Tenn. grocery store attack: ‘He kept on shooting’
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COLLIERVILLE, Tenn. • A gunman attacked a grocery store in an upscale Tennessee suburb on Thursday afternoon, killing one person and wounding 12 before he was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at the store, authorities said. Collierville Police Chief Dale Lane said the shooting broke out at a Kroger grocery in his…
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2 juveniles charged in Tennessee wildfires that killed 14
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities on Wednesday charged two juveniles in an East Tennessee wildfire that killed 14 people and destroyed or damaged more than 1,700 buildings in an iconic tourism spot at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains. Officials offered few other specifics about how they think the two started a fire that leveled…
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Death toll from Tennessee wildfires increases to 11
GATLINBURG, Tenn. — Crews discovered the remains of more people as they searched the rubble of wildfires that torched hundreds of homes and businesses near the Great Smoky Mountains, bringing the death toll to 11, officials said Thursday. Authorities set up a hotline for people to report missing friends and relatives, and after following up…
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3 more bodies found in Tennessee wildfire ruins, toll at 7
GATLINBURG, Tenn. — Three more bodies were found in the ruins of wildfires that torched hundreds of homes and businesses in the Great Smoky Mountains area, raising the death toll to seven, a Tennessee mayor said Wednesday. Search-and-rescue missions continued, and Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters said they had found three people who had been…
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West Virginia official: Spill company knew of 2nd chemical
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The company at the center of the West Virginia water crisis immediately knew a second chemical leaked from its plant into the Elk River, and told its workers in an email, according to a state environmental official. However, Freedom Industries did not let state government officials know about the second chemical right…