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Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Safety, Nissan A worker has died at the Nissan assembly plant in Smyrna, TN following an accident. According to The Detroit News, the tragedy happened Thursday and involved a large electric panel that fell while it was...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Nora Mildred Young, 82, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., died Sat., April 6, 2013.  Born Jan. 26, 1931, in Bradfordsville, Ky., she was a daughter of the late Wilson Cooley and Sylvia Garrett Cooley.  Mrs. Young attended Leanna Church...

Hampton pitcher/infielder Steve Hux, the Peninsula District Player of the Year last spring, is off to another hot start and has committed to Division II Chowan University in Murfreesboro, N.C. Hux said he plans to sign his letter-of-intent next week. He...

He really could have used that $3,800. But Joe Ellis is an honest man. Saturday night, Ellis (video below) was searching a Dumpster in Tennessee for recycled cans to turn in for extra cash when he hit the mother lode: a plastic bag full of hundred-...

As U.S. and allied forces advanced toward Baghdad 10 years ago, a military public affairs sergeant snapped a photograph of a Marine saluting the flag at sunset at a desert airfield in southern Iraq. Taken on April 3, 2003, it was one of many images...

Robert Lee Myers died Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, while under the compassionate care of hospice.  Born near Chewsville, Md., he was the son of the late Wilbur Cleveland Myers and Elnora L. Stouffer Myers. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth M. (Sterling)...

Following the school shootings in December, the nation's gun laws seemed the obvious place to look to prevent future attacks in schools, malls, theaters and workplaces. But another key theme that emerged - and deserves a great deal of attention as well...

Mental health critical part of nation's debate on gun control  Following the school shootings in December, the nation’s gun laws seemed the obvious place to look to prevent future attacks in schools, malls, theaters and workplaces. But another key...

Beauty Is Embarrassing Monday, Jan. 21, 10 p.m., on PBS's Independent Lens, check local listings   Wayne White says "fuck" a lot. He paints the word "fuck" a lot, too. White, the subject of the excellent and entertaining documentary Beauty is...

James M. Buchanan, the U.S. economist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize for applying the principles of economic self-interest to understand why politicians do what they do, has died. He was 93. He died Wednesday at a hospital in Blacksburg, Va., according to...

Joseph H. Gasco, of Pellston and formerly of Harbor Springs and Boyne Falls, passed away Dec. 29, 2012, at McLaren Northern Michigan at the age of 57. Heaven now has another Angel. He was born on Dec. 9, 1955, in Petoskey, the son of John and Irene...

Since I finished the October front page story and short video for the Chicago Tribune about King Daniel Ganaway, the story of the nearly-forgotten Chicago photographer has been read and watched again and again. Ganaway, a brilliant photographer who...