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In the wake of the narrow leadership election for the Williamson County Republican Party (WCRP), which saw the Elevate-2025 slate of candidates win, with chairman candidate Steve Hickey elected by a margin of just 44 votes, The Tennessee Star obtained an email sent by Williamson County Conservatives Secretary candidate Kimberly Calcote, which demands information raw data from the WCRP Reorganizing Convention held on Tuesday ahead of a possible appeal of the […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — ADM Animal Nutrition has issued a recall for cattle feed sold across six states, including Tennessee. On Wednesday, ADM Animal Nutrition recalled specific animal feed products that may contain elevated levels of copper or have levels of zinc below their represented amounts, which could harm cattle. The issue was discovered during routine production and initiated the recall after confirming the feed had varying levels of copper […]

The first 11 transit and infrastructure projects to come out of the city’s transit overhaul have been announced. While the projects are in different stages and of varying sizes, they will all be funded by the sales tax surcharge approved in Nashville’s transit referendum. The half-cent increase went into effect last month. The revenues from the new tax were not predicted in the original budget for this fiscal year, so Nashville […]

The Trump Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally dismissed a lawsuit against the state of Idaho that had been brought by the Biden Administration in opposition to the state’s pro-life law.As ABC News reports, the lawsuit had claimed that Idaho’s law – which enacts a near-total ban on abortion – was in violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). The federal law requires all hospitals […]

JACKSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — A man faces several charges following a standoff involving multiple Middle Tennessee law enforcement agencies. Jackson County dispatch received an emergency call Thursday from a woman who said she was being assaulted by her boyfriend. Though she was able to get away with her child and take shelter in a nearby camper, the Jackson County Sheriff's Department said she warned responding deputies that the suspect, […]

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Chloe Kitts had 25 points and 10 rebounds and No. 5 South Carolina held off a furious second-half rally from Vanderbilt to win 84-63 on Friday in the SEC Tournament quarterfinals. MiLaysia Fulwiley scored 15 off the bench and Sania Feagin added 13 points for South Carolina (28-3), which has won five straight. Coach Dawn Staley’s Gamecocks, the Southeastern Conference’s top seed, appeared plenty motivated to […]

The Federal Emergency Management says the agency has fired three more employees following an investigation into allegations that houses in a hurricane disaster zone were skipped over because they displayed pro-Trump campaign materials. The agency acknowledged the firings is a March 4 letter to the House Oversight Committee, which has been investigating the matter.

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi should turn her attention to more pressing issues in an effort to save face after last month’s botched rollout of declassified files related to the late billionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States would offer a pathway to citizenship for South African farmers facing land expropriation by their government. In a post on TruthSocial, Trump criticized South Africa’s treatment of farmers, claiming the government was "confiscating their land and farms," and promised to stop all federal funding to the country.