Mid-South Weather Alert: Friday Evening Storms Could Bring Damaging Winds and Hail Threat
Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Memphis, TN – The National Weather Service in Memphis is warning residents across the Mid-South to prepare for the possibility of severe thunderstorms between 3 PM and 9 PM Friday as a cold front pushes...
Tennessee SNAP recipient opens up about her family’s experience since losing benefits
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. — Amanda Richardson and her family have relied on SNAP benefits for many years. Since Nov. 1, she doesn't know where her family's next meal will come from. "Me, myself, I feel like a failure because I can't feed my children at home," Richardson said. She has...
Tennessee’s economy relies on sales tax, which is putting more burden on low-income families
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Tennessee’s tax structure is designed to attract companies to the state by keeping business tax lower. Tennessee ranks 2nd in the nation in sales tax rate. Michael Kofoed, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Tennessee’s Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research,...
‘Unjust and discouraging’ | Anderson County school director wants to spend district dollars on...
CLINTON, Tenn. (WVLT) - Anderson County School Director Dr. Tim Parrot wants to hand out bonuses to non-teacher staff to remedy Gov. Bill Lee’s “unjust and discouraging” private school voucher bonus system. In a letter earmarked for the county’s school board, Parrot proposed pulling more than $800,000 from other...
Feds form ‘Homeland Security Task Force’ in Nashville, among several other major U.S. cities
Federal officials on Thursday announced the formation of a Nashville-based Homeland Security Task Force to combat gangs, drug trafficking and transnational crime across Middle Tennessee. Dozens of federal law enforcement agents from the Department of Homeland Security, the IRS, U.S. Marshals Service, the U.S. Army...
Two people dead following vehicle crash in Tennessee
TENNESSEE — Two people were killed in a two-vehicle crash Thursday morning in South Nashville, according to the Metro Nashville Police Department. The collision occurred around 9:15 a.m. at the intersection of Trousdale Drive and Briarwood Drive. Police said 22-year-old Nicholas Moralas Gomez was riding a BMW...
Nonprofit, Tennessee agency working to find adoptive families for the more than 450 kids...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A nonprofit called Youth Villages and the Tennessee Department of Children Services are teaming up to find families for the more than 450 children in state custody. Youth Villages said there are 459 children awaiting adoption in Tennessee. The average age of those kids is 14,...
House Speaker Proposes Removing Bachelor’s Degree Requirement for Elementary and Middle School Teachers
In an interview with the Tennessee Firefly, Sexton said he’ll propose creating an associate’s degree program for future kindergarten through sixth grade teachers.
Tennessee couple starts grocery gift card drive amid SNAP benefit cuts
One Tennessee couple is focusing on feeding families in a unique way.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announces $5M for food banks during SNAP benefits freeze
Days after thousands of Tennessee families lost monthly federal food benefits, Gov. Bill Lee announced he would direct $5 million in state funding to food banks. Lee said Tuesday that funding will come from savings accrued in TennCare, the state’s Medicaid program for the poor, disabled and elderly, and be...
