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Jon Bon Jovi, pictured at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York on Sunday, is credited with helping save a woman's life on a Nashville bridge just days later.

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  • Music News

Jon Bon Jovi helps talk a woman off the ledge of a bridge while filming a music video

Bon Jovi spotted a woman on the ledge of the pedestrian bridge where his crew was filming in Nashville late Tuesday. The singer and a team member helped her over the railing and back to safety.

September 12, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
A Tennessee judge ordered Star News Digital Media, a conservative media organization, and editor-in-chief Michael Leahy to appear in court over its publishing details from allegedly leaked documents about the 2023 Nashville school shooting, while the outlet sues for the same kind of records to be released to the public.

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  • National

Nashville court grapples with details on school shooter that were leaked to media

The court is determining if the investigative file and other records from the 2023 shooting should be released under Tennessee's public records law. Leaks of some documents have complicated the case.

June 18, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Country music star Morgan Wallen attending the CMA Awards in Nashville in November 2023.

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  • Arts & Life

Morgan Wallen arrested for throwing a chair from a rooftop bar in Nashville

The country music star was arrested on four charges, including reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct. The chair, thrown from a rooftop bar, landed on the street close to two police officers.

April 09, 2024
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Left: A Tennessee Historical Commission marker honors the site of Greenwood Park, which was the first city park to serve Nashville's Black residents and was established by Preston Taylor in 1905. Right: Learotha Williams is a public historian at Tennessee State University in Nashville.

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  • Race

Black immigrants are growing in numbers, but in the U.S. many often feel invisible

One in five Black Americans are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. But feeling embraced or understood by the U.S. can seem daunting for some, and impossible for others.

June 06, 2023
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  • Leah Donnella
When she first arrived in the U.S. decades ago, Queen Titile Keskessa didn't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was. Today, she is inspired by his legacy and the work of other African American civil rights icons.

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  • Race

Reporter's notebook: The South is home to a growing Black immigrant population

What's it like to be a Black immigrant or refugee in America? We had a hundred or so conversations with people in Tennessee — one of the Blackest states in the country — to find out.

May 12, 2023
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  • Leah Donnella

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Rev. Bernice King on training center; DA Fani Willis calls out Trump's attacks

Tuesday on Political Rewind: Rev. Bernice King called for a complete rethinking of the planned police training center. This comes as Mayor Andre Dickens has doubled down on his commitment to build the facility. Meanwhile, Fulton DA Fani Willis says recent attacks by Donald Trump are "ridiculous."

April 11, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
People walk past the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday, where victims were taken after a shooting at the Covenant School.

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  • Health

At a Nashville hospital, the agony of not being able to help school shooting victims

A pediatric surgeon and his colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center had prepared for a mass casualty event, but the victims of Monday's shooting had already died by the time they arrived.

March 31, 2023
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  • Becky Sullivan
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  • National

Melissa Joan Hart says she helped kindergarteners escape the Nashville shooting

Hart, known for her starring role on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, said her children attend school near Nashville's Covenant School.

March 30, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
A mourner on Wednesday holds a sign reading "Why? Why?" at a makeshift memorial for victims of the shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

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  • National

4 big questions about the Nashville school shooting (and what we know so far)

Monday's school shooting set in motion a familiar cycle of condolences, calls for action and questions, some unanswerable, about how the violence unfolded. Here's a look at what we're following.

March 29, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
Nashville Police Chief John Drake speaks at a news briefing on Tuesday at the entrance to the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee.

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  • National

What we know about the deadly shooting at a Nashville elementary school

Authorities released graphic body camera footage showing the fatal confrontation between police and the shooter at the private religious school. Three children and three adults died in the attack.

March 28, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
Gambling

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Sine Die deadline looms; Gov. Kemp supports vouchers; Nashville school shooting

Tuesday on Political Rewind: As Sine Die looms over the Dome, legislators scramble to pass several high-profile bills. Gov. Brian Kemp supported a school choice measure that critics say would rob public schools of much-needed funds. Sports betting and expanded hate crime bills also saw a second life. We also discuss a tragic school shooting in Nashville. 

March 28, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Fisk University gymnast Jordynn Cromartie performs her floor exercise routine during a team practice at the Nashville Gymnastics Training Center on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. On Friday afternoon, Jan. 6, 2023, at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Cromartie, now a freshman at Fisk University, and the rest of her teammates will make history when they become the first HBCU to participate in an NCAA women's gymnastics meet.

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  • News

At Fisk University, gymnastics makes a giant leap for HBCUs

Nashville-based Fisk University will make history this week when the school's women's gymnastics team becomes the first historically Black college or university to compete at the NCAA level.

January 06, 2023
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  • Associated Press
People react Friday after a jury found Travis Reinking guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of four people at a Waffle House in 2018.

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  • National

Waffle House shooter found guilty on 4 counts of murder

Evidence presented during the trial showed Travis Reinking had schizophrenia and had suffered delusions for years but prosecutors showed that he was calm and cooperative after his arrest.

February 04, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Nashville, Tenn., police officers Brenna Hosey and James Wells embrace after speaking at a news conference on Sunday. Hosey and Wells are part of a group of officers credited with evacuating people before the explosion that occurred in downtown Nashville early Christmas morning.

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  • National

Nashville Blast Suspect Died In Explosion, Officials Say

Authorities revealed that DNA testing shows the man believed to be the perpetrator of the Christmas Day incident died in the blast.

December 28, 2020
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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
Nashville, Tenn., Police Chief John Drake speaks during a news conference on Christmas Day. Law enforcement is looking into who and how many may have been involved in a bombing in Nashville's downtown corridor.

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  • National

Authorities Search For Nashville Bomber As Governor Asks For Emergency Declaration

A day after the early Christmas explosion injured three people and damaged dozens of buildings in downtown Nashville, Tenn., large swaths of the state's communications networks were still down.

December 27, 2020
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  • Matthew S. Schwartz
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