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Prosecutors say the student who was shot during Virginia Union University's (VUU) homecoming weekend was defending his girlfriend from a man who hit her in the face.

Thousands of voters in a key battleground state are racing the clock to save their ballots after Republicans changed the rules. Nearly 6 percent of mail ballots counted so far in North Carolina's 2026 midterms have been flagged with problems, Democracy Docket reported Tuesday, and county monitors point to a new GOP-imposed requirement that the inner ballot envelope be completely sealed inside the outer one. Also Read: Trump family hit by 'political earthquake' as autocratic leader falls: expert

Neighbors say alleged squatters turned their lives and community upside down. Now, an auction may offer a way out — with one big catch.

The Melting Pot is planning to return to downtown Nashville nearly six years after the 2020 Christmas Day bombing destroyed its Second Avenue location. The restaurant’s return would bring back a longtime downtown dining destination after it lost its original location and later had its Second Avenue lease terminated.

NEW YORK (PIX11) — The charge against a NYPD detective accused of shooting a Con Edison worker on the George Washington Bridge has been upgraded to murder. On Tuesday, a grand jury was presented the charge or murder in the second degree against 62-year-old Victor Romero. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said the jury returned […]

Large companies in Tennessee are required to issue a public notice at least 60 days before shutting down a plant.

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — A Mobile County 911 dispatcher is facing disciplinary action after a call made hours before two women were killed in West Mobile.  Mobile County 911 Director Robert Jackson said a review of the Oct. 12 call found the dispatcher made the wrong judgment by not transferring the call to the appropriate […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Local shoppers are voicing concerns over prices at Dollar General, as a federal agency and several states file suit against the discount chain. The Federal Trade Commission and 20 states including Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas are taking legal action against Dollar General, accusing the discount store chain of charging more at the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Susan Saint James, who co-starred with Rock Hudson in the 1970s TV crime series “McMillan & Wife” and later co-starred with Jane Curtin in the sitcom “Kate & Allie” in the 1980s, has died. She was 80. People magazine, citing a representative for the actor, said Saint James died Monday. She had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. “She never met a stranger," her family said in a statement to People. "Every person she met became the most important person in the room at that mo

Kentucky pharmacist Dr. Shelby Dela Cruz is still fighting charges tied to a one-digit clerical error nearly five months after her arrest.