Moms and Dads, put a new twist on the holiday tradition of writing letters to Santa! This year your child can receive a personalized letter back from Santa. Bring your child's letter to Santa, along with a self addressed stamped envelope made out to your child, and drop it off in the bright red "Letters To Santa" mailboxes. More

Just recently, an East Tennessee hunter was fined $1,240 for shooting an elk accidentally on the Oak Ridge Wildlife Management Area. The hunter says he thought the elk was a deer when he shot it. He turned himself into wildlife authorities. The hunter also lost his hunting privileges for one year. More

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (Ticker)

With the recent elections, it was common to see George Bush, Al Gore and Joe Lieberman on TV and in the news regularly. Bush was in a fund-raising frenzy for the elections, while Gore and Lieberman were jockeying for position on down the road. I recently had this dream about a presidential campaign. More

If you drive past the original Pearl and Cameron High Schools, you can see their ages are hidden by fresh paint and years of renovations. Also masked are the past successes and championships the rival schools once competed for in basketball. Those golden days will be relived Saturday at Tennessee State More

The goaltender dilemma for the Nashville Predators has no easy answers. With a four-game homestand starting tonight with a visit from the San Jose Sharks at 7 at the Gaylord Entertainment Center, coach Barry Trotz has implied only that he will go with the goaltender with the hot hand. And while lukewarm may be a more apt description, statistically the "hottest" hand is Tomas Vokoun instead of Mike Dunham. More

Tennessee can thank retired SEC commissioner Roy Kramer for being in the 2002 bowl picture. It was Kramer who negotiated the contracts with seven bowls, guaranteeing mediocre SEC teams a bowl berth. Tennessee will finish the regular season 7-5 or 8-4, depending on Kentucky's mood this Saturday. More

Reports of Vanderbilt

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The North Nashville police precinct could one day be a community-friendly facility with neighborhood children playing outside and parents inside meeting on important local issues or just renewing car tags. Behind the building, a greenway would weave historical landmarks such as a high bluff where Nashville More

There's a judge in Montgomery, Ala., who doesn't know much about the law. Problem is, he doesn't know much about the Constitution either. And to make matters worse, he's chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Of course, I'm talking about Chief Justice Roy Moore, known as the More

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Al Gore wants credit for not committing political suicide by trying to tear down the American political system. "I could have handled the whole thing differently, and instead of making a concession speech, launched a four-year rear guard guerrilla campaign to undermine the legitimacy of the Bush presidency.

In keeping with his promise to establish a more inclusive administration, Governor-elect Phil Bredesen named more than 164 Tennesseans from across the state and from a variety of political viewpoints to submit input in the naming of key candidates for high-level state positions opening up after he takes office in January. More

A Tennessee lottery could be in place by this time next year, said its chief architect state Sen. Steve Cohen Tuesday. The lottery question, which passed a state referendum by more than 58 percent earlier this month, is now in the hands of the General Assembly, which has the discretion on whether to implement it. More

The Metro School Board Tuesday night approved a contract with Canada-based Chancery, the company selected to install the district

Convicted murderer Paul Dennis Reid will remain on death row, the Tennessee Supreme Court decided Tuesday. Reid was convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of seven people at McDonald More

Second Harvest

Local efforts of a federally mandated program to target the worst of the worst criminals will initially center on