Tennessee State University News

If the federal government gives living relatives of Meriwether Lewis permission to exhume the famed explorer's body, there's a chance there would be nothing there worth studying, a forensic anthropologist from Middle Tennessee State University said today.

The 32nd Annual Uncle Dave Macon Days Old Time Music and Dance Festival kicks off Friday and runs through the weekend in Murfreesboro's Cannonsburgh Village.

Photo by Greg Moses Candi Nunley holds her class T-shirt from Officer Candidate School, which was autographed by the members of her class.

But authorities wouldn't say it was a murder-suicide - even with his 20-year-old girlfriend dead at his feet from a single bullet.

Tennessee is attracting national attention for a program to get teaching students off college campuses earlier and into classrooms, where they face a wider range of challenges than their predecessors.

A driver and her passenger were injured early Thursday when their van crashed into a north Nashville business.

Okay, so let's briefly recap. The May Town Center folks promised Tennessee State University a large swath of land along the river, regardless of whether MTC happened.

A Middle Tennessee State University professor hopes a new invention will save Americans up to 120 millions gallons of fuel a day.

Brooke Mullican is the new director at Cheatham County Public Library in Ashland City.

A changing of the guard is less than a week away at the Lane Agri-Park in Murfreesboro.

"he was planning on graduating early this year. He was actually going to summer school to get put up so he can graduate this year and go to Tennessee State University.

Wendell Berry points to the destructive tendencies of universities crossing the purposes of agriculture: If agriculture is acknowledged to have anything to do with culture, then its study has to include people.

Building an electric vehicle at Nissan Motor Co. 's Smyrna plant is expected to bring as many as 1,300 jobs to the area by 2012, not in time to help today's sour labor market but perhaps in time to aid what could still be a lingering recovery.

Friends of Roger G. Haley will gather to roast Murfreesboroa s outgoing city manager, who has devoted 20 years to public service and recently was named a oecity manager of the yeara by the Tennessee City Management Association during the Tennessee Municipal Leaguea s annual conference held in Chattanooga.

State lawmakers closed up shop for the year, having rewritten Tennessee's guns laws, moved a step closer to passing a constitutional amendment on abortion and cut spending by state government by about 10 percent.

State lawmakers worked late into the night to pass next year's budget. The $29.6 billion budget passed 85 to 12 shortly before 12 Midnight Wednesday.

The small band of travelers rode north on the Natchez Trace, winding through the Tennessee wilderness en route to Washington, D.C. Leading them was Meriwether Lewis, who just three years earlier had helped blaze a trail to the Pacific Ocean, cementing his fame and power in a young America.

From the Annals of 1909 Miss Gertrude McDowell, of Agnes Scott College of Decatur, arrived home to spend some time.

If you're headed to this weekend's Jefferson Street Jazz and Blues festival between 26th and 28th avenues, brace yourself for some parking challenges.

Local musician Jef Roberts died March 1 as a direct result of a street fight a week earlier, his autopsy report reveals, but a grand jury last month refused to charge the man who struck the final blow, Duc Thach.