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CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee — Former U.S. ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty, the man President Donald Trump wants in the vacant U.S. Senate seat here come November, is seeking to finish off his once-surging opponent in Thursday’s primary.

A Tennessee state senator was charged Wednesday for allegedly stealing $600,000 in federal money to pay for her wedding and lavish lifestyle.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview last week that the National Basketball Association (NBA) is “in bed with” the Chinese Communist Party.

Teens began rioting and throwing large objects at staff members of a Memphis, Tennessee, mini golf and game center on Saturday night after they were dropped off by parents and left unsupervised.

Sen. Tom Cotton and GOP U.S. Senate frontrunner Bill Hagerty laid out a vision to hold China accountable for the coronavirus pandemic and bring manufacturing back to the United States.

Dr. Manny Sethi, a candidate for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Tennessee, decided to surround himself with Never Trumpers, including his campaign manager who believes President Donald Trump is a “divisive, short-fingered vulgarian.”

Bill Hagerty, a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Tennessee and President Donald Trump’s former U.S. ambassador to Japan, resigned on Saturday from an agriculture firm that he discovered was promoting Black Lives Matter (BLM) extremism.

A Sumner County, Tennessee, sheriff’s deputy is thanking two women who bought him breakfast Tuesday morning at Cracker Barrel, but its the note these two black women left that is getting extra attention on social media.

Protesters in Louisiana and Tennessee are calling for the elimination of Confederate monument, and in their place, they want statues erected of pop star Britney Spears and country icon Dolly Parton.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee warned protesters aiming to set up a “police-free” autonomous zone in front of the state Capitol in Nashville on Friday, saying that “lawlessness, autonomous zones, and violence will not be tolerated.”

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country superstar Garth Brooks is holding a concert that will be played at 300 drive-in theaters in June across the country.

Governors, mainly Republicans, from some of the states experiencing a rise in novel coronavirus cases following their decision to reopen earlier than other U.S. regions, assert that they can handle the spike and refuse to reimpose lockdown measures.

Tennessee announced Friday that it would start reopening amusement parks and theaters, as well as lift capacity restrictions on restaurants and shops beginning next week.

An illegal alien has been convicted for a hit-and-run that left a six-year-old boy in critical condition and seriously injured a 16-year-old teen.

A dog that saved her family’s life and went missing after alerting them to a deadly tornado in Cookeville, Tennessee, has been found after 54 days.

Two friends on vacation in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, had a close encounter with a baby black bear while they were in their cabin, according to a video.

A woman was accused of animal cruelty Thursday after officials discovered more than 100 animals at her property in Frankewing, Tennessee.

“Restaurants have a unique opportunity to help lead us out of this and the reason for that is that we’ve been practicing safe food handling for years,” he said. “The safety of our guests has always been paramount.”

The Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) released an updated version of its coronavirus model on Friday that jammed several “one size fits all” assumptions about the effectiveness of government imposed social distancing restrictions on all 50 states.

A trio of Southern states announced separately Monday that they plan on loosening stay-at-home orders implemented as part of an effort combat the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.  

On Monday the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) model cited by the White House Coronavirus Task Force lowered its projections of coronavirus deaths in the United States by August 4 to 81,776, down more than ten percent from the 93,765 projected on April 1, as Breitbart News reported on Wednesday.

A little girl and her grandfather in Nashville, Tennessee, are not allowing the coronavirus pandemic to separate them completely.

The Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) model cited by White House Coronavirus Task Force officials appears to dramatically overstate the hospitalization of patients with coronavirus in the United States when the model’s projections are compared to actual data.

A group of registered nurses and surgical technicians from Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, said a prayer for all those impacted by the coronavirus.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issued a “Safer at Home” executive order for the entire state on Monday afternoon.

Tennessee U.S. Senate candidate Amb. Bill Hagerty (R) on Saturday blasted China for its role in trying to hide information about the coronavirus that originated in its country and has now spread throughout the world and is hurting the global economy.

Neighbors in Knoxville, Tennessee, are making sure those unable to leave their homes have whatever they need during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. 

Kid Rock’s Nashville bar will remain open despite orders by the city mayor to close or limit the number of customers at public places.

Two brothers are now under investigation in Hixson, Tennesee, for allegedly trying to resell antibacterial products on Amazon for profit during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

A man with a huge amount of hand sanitizer in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was recently barred from selling it online.

Scott Presler, whose goal is to clean up U.S. cities, said it is wrong to help illegal immigrants while ignoring homeless Americans.

A little girl with a big heart in Clovis, California, is helping tornado victims in Tennessee get back on their feet.

Thousands of volunteers have descended upon the tornado-torn areas of Tennessee to help clean up after Tuesday’s storms.

Officials shut down the annual Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio, this year to general spectators due to coronavirus fears, leaving the festival with a lot of food but no one to eat it.

A Tennessee hospital will not bill its 82 tornado victims for out-of-pocket costs incurred from treatment related to deadly tornadoes in the area.

A CBS News correspondent shared moving stories Thursday from his time in Putnam County, Tennessee, after an EF-4 tornado devastated the area Tuesday.