Tennessee sends search and rescue team to Oklahoma

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee-based team of emergency service workers has gone to Oklahoma to help with tornado recovery. Memphis Fire Department spokesman Wayne Cooke said that Tennessee Task Force 1 left early Tuesday from Memphis. Cooke says the 80-member team will mostly help with search and rescue efforts after powerful and deadly tornadoes struck cities in Oklahoma on Sunday and ...

Morriss wins Unions Eaton Speech Contest

- Grace Morriss, a junior engineering major from Flower Mound, Texas, won the 2013 Union University Joseph H. Eaton Speech and Oratory Contest May 2. Morriss' speech, entitled "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Military Screening," beat out nine other speeches. Courtney Brown placed second with "The Dangers of Barbie" and Leeana Cargile placed third with ...

Union University Hendersonville admits next Leadership Academy class

- Union University Hendersonville has admitted 40 individuals for its next installment of Leadership Academy, which will begin in June. Leadership Academy is an ongoing program designed for teachers and administrators in Sumner County schools. All participants receive professional in-service credit and those who are admitted to a Union graduate degree program will receive three hours of ...

Tennessee City Debates Red Light Cameras

A group in Murfreesboro has started a petition to end the use of red-light cameras, but police say the traffic enforcement measure has improve safety. Middle Tennessee State University student Axl David, who heads Citizens Against Photo Enforcement, said he plans to submit the petition to City Council after 1,000 people have signed it. The group complains that the city uses the cameras to ...

Red Bank officials say town is fine without cams

RED BANK, Tenn. (AP) -- Now that traffic enforcement cameras have been gone from a Hamilton County city for four months, officials are saying just how much they are not ...