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The 112th Tennessee General Assembly has passed a number of new laws that will go into effect July 1, 2022.

Forecasters are warning of treacherous holiday travel and life-threatening cold for much of the nation as an arctic air mass blows in.

TENNESSEE (WATE) — After the deadly school bus crash Oct. 27 in Meigs County, Governor Bill Lee says he expects debate over whether seatbelts should be installed in Tennessee school buses. The company IMMI says they were the first to engineer seat belts on school buses 20 years ago. Opponents argue that seatbelts could prevent […]

PARIS (AP) — The wheels may be about to come off Paris’ ubiquitous for-hire electric scooters. Zipping around the City of Light on one of them, wind in the hair, or romantically but naughtily e-scooting à deux on one machine when the gendarmes aren’t looking could soon be over if Parisians vote Sunday to do […]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pat Bostick’s official title at the University of Pittsburgh is “Senior Associate Athletic Director of Development, Major Gifts.” There’s an unofficial title that pops up fairly regularly for the quarterback who helped the Panthers pull off one of college football’s greatest upsets of the 21st century. “I joke sometimes people think when […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Forecasters are warning of treacherous holiday travel and life-threatening cold for much of the nation as an arctic air mass blows into the already-frigid southern United States. “We’re looking at much-below normal temperatures, potentially record-low temperatures leading up to the Christmas holiday,” said Zack Taylor, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. […]

A Memphis man was arrested after he allegedly fired a gun while on a MATA bus.

LAJAS BLANCAS, Panama (AP) — At the edge of Panama’s Darien jungle Friday, Venezuelans made up the majority of migrants waiting for buses to speed them across the country to Costa Rica, where they planned to continue moving north. Annie Carrillo, a 38-year-old Venezuelan traveling with her Colombian husband and a friend, said they had […]

NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Josef Newgarden collapsed in the motorhome lot following his late crash Sunday at Iowa Speedway and was taken to a Des Moines hospital by helicopter for evaluation. Team Penske said he’d be held overnight. “Following the conclusion of the race Newgarden lost consciousness and fell, sustaining a cut on the back […]

Pedestrian deaths on American roads have risen by more than 70 percent since 2010, an increase that safe-streets advocates ascribe partly to our national love affair with trucks.  Vehicles struck and killed 7,388 pedestrians in 2021, compared to 4,302 in 2010, according to federal crash data tabulated by The Hill. Pedestrian deaths rose by another […]

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Tens of millions of Americans endured bone-chilling temperatures, blizzard conditions, power outages and canceled holiday gatherings Friday from a winter storm that forecasters said was nearly unprecedented in its scope, exposing about 60% of the U.S. population to some sort of winter weather advisory or warning. More than 200 million people […]