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Photos by JASON CLARK / COURIER & PRESS Steven Smartt of Nashville, Tenn., plays the national anthem on his trumpet Friday in front of Evansville Fire Station No.

The room was largely empty, but Director of Schools Jesse Register's call to stop to the fighting over Nashville education was heard far and wide last night.

In his wide-ranging career, Seigenthaler also served on Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign and founded the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

A Vanderbilt University student has raised more than $40,000 in five days through a crowdfunding website after a family tragedy left her unable to pay tuition for the upcoming academic year.

Jennifer Grace Bird, who holds a doctorate in New Testament from Vanderbilt University, will preach and teach on studying the Bible at Weatherly Heights Baptist Church, 1306 Cannstatt Drive S.E., in Huntsville, Ala., on Sunday, July 20, 2014.

The organization said it will open a local chapter to represent workers at Volkswagen's only U.S. plant, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Sixty years ago on the 10th day of July 1954, Bruce Rodger Savage and Ranzie Geneva Shores were married in Nashville, Tenn.

Authorities confirmed a long-serving member of the Tennessee National Guard was shot to death Wednesday at an armory in Perry County.

PERU is far from being the most violent country in what is the world's most violent continent.

PEDRO RODRIGUEZ, head of Nicaragua's youth-affairs police, grabs the shoulder of 17-year-old Axel Matus and gives it a shake.

Ann Harris says she has spent the entirety of her nearly two-decade law career in Cobb Superior Court.

Police were called to the armory, just southwest of Nashville, early Wednesday evening, WATE reported.

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The Memphis Bioworks Foundation has created a partnership with Nashville-based Vanderbilt University to accelerate business and product ideas from the university into the marketplace.

Editor's note: This is one in a series of stories about contested races in the August county general election.

The journeys organized by Travel Dynamics combine first-class accommodations and stimulating sight-seeing with intimate chamber music performances in extraordinary locations.

A judge has issued an order sealing future documents filed in a rape case against four former Vanderbilt University football players.

E.R. doctors at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center say they haven't seen heroin abuse this bad in more than 20 years.

The Rev. Joel Harter has been named associate chaplain for Protestant life, responsible for providing pastoral and religious care to the campus community with a focus on Protestant staff, students, faculty and campus organizations.

BusinesSuites LP, an Austin-based company in the workspace-as-a-service industry, announced Tuesday its third executive suite location in Nashville.