Tennessee State University removed the interim tag from Teresa Lawrence Phillips

The first baby rolls of high school inline hockey were taken Monday night, as Youth, Incorporated staged an organizational meeting to set up a fall league for scholastic-based squads. Seven teams sent representatives to the meeting at the Metro Public Library on Edmondson Pike. Father Ryan, Brentwood, Centennial, LaVergne and Spring Hill will be able to supplement full rosters, while Hillwood/Martin Luther King and Smyrna/Blackman will pair up for two more entries. Brentwood may field two teams, like the school does for the ice version of the sport. More

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The Arena Football League is on its way back to Nashville. Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams announced Tuesday he has exercised his $4 million option to purchase the rights to the Arena Football League's Nashville Kats franchise. According to Adams, plans are for the Kats to begin play again in Nashville in either 2003 or 2004, depending upon how quickly a venue can be found where the team can play. More

Even with the pressure mounting and the precipitation falling, Donelson Christian Academy sophomore Keaton Bodiford refused to melt. With the other four matches already completed, the Wildcats More

Derek Lowe's no-hitter last week, the first of the season and the first at Boston's Fenway Park since 1965, reminded me of pitcher Babe Ruth's involvement in one of the most unusual no-hitters in major league history. It too occurred in Fenway Park in 1917 when Ruth was a young Red Sox pitcher. He started the first game of a double-header with Washington but was removed from the game for arguing with the umpire who gave a base on balls to Washington's first-inning leadoff batter. More

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Five revenue plans - theoretically new, actually recycled - were to be considered by the House Democratic and Republican caucuses as early as today after brief tryouts before the House Finance Committee Tuesday. The most likely to emerge is the plan to set a 4.5 percent flat rate income tax, which Speaker Jimmy Naifeh has been promoting for several weeks. More

Metro Council members who were eyeing the vice mayoral seat

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Amid controversy stemming from two arrests for shoplifting, Nashville Vice Mayor Ronnie Steine submitted his resignation to Mayor Bill Purcell Tuesday morning. Steine More

In the movie 'The Fugitive', the character played by Tommy Lee Jones looks down at the mangled wreckage of a runaway train and says, More

The owner of the historic Russell Street Church of Christ in East Nashville has leased the church to three partners who plan to open the East Nashville Center for the Creative Arts, a community school of the arts for children on the east side. The building is owned by March Egerton. Chris Donohue, Matt Slocum and Andrew Krichels met Monday with East Nashville school principals, residents of Historic Edgefield and members of the Nashville Symphony and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra to explain plans for the community school and to get feedback. More

Want to have your search for a mate broadcast all over the United States? You can, now that ABC is casting for its next season of its surprise hit 'The Bachelor', as well as its premiere season of 'The Bachelorette'. More

Current audience interest in bluegrass and acoustic music has never been higher, even though this renewed fan attention hasn

Nothing sends a chill down the collective spine of imperfect women everywhere like two little words: swimsuit season. After dressing room humiliation, denial, tears and a shopping bag full of muumuus, can the suggestion that the family take an Alaskan summer vacation be far behind? More

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