NASHVILLE (AP) — A nonprofit dedicated to opposing diversity initiatives in medicine has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the requirements surrounding the racial makeup of key medical boards in Tennessee.

2. New faces from across the country fill Vandy’s roster - Friday, November 8, 2024

Vanderbilt’s basketball roster is more of a “who’s new” than a “who’s who.” First-year Commodores coach Mark Byington, also among the program’s new faces, is rebuilding through the transfer portal. Here’s a look at new additions to the Vanderbilt roster:

3. Out with old gold, in with the new - Friday, November 8, 2024

The biggest challenge on the biggest stage. That was the immense task Mark Byington accepted in late March when Vanderbilt hired the Virginia native as the new Commodore basketball coach.

Byington, 48, successfully rebuilt struggling basketball programs at mid-major powers Georgia Southern and James Madison, but now he’s being asked to revive a tradition-rich Southeastern Conference basketball program that has been to the NCAA Tournament 15 times but since 2017.

4. US voters hear a stark message in the presidential race: The country's fate is on the line - Friday, November 1, 2024

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Few elections in the nation's history have provided such a divide as this year's, with the two major candidates and so many of their supporters saying the outcome will determine the fate of the country and whether it can hold to its democratic moorings.

5. Election officials are fighting a tsunami of voting conspiracy theories - Friday, October 18, 2024

ATLANTA (AP) — Voting machines reversing votes. More voters registered than people eligible. Large numbers of noncitizens voting.

With less than two weeks before Election Day, a resurgence in conspiracy theories and misinformation about voting is forcing state and local election officials to spend their time debunking rumors and explaining how elections are run at the same time they're overseeing early voting and preparing for Nov. 5.

6. Bradley adds Browder as health care partner - Friday, October 25, 2024

Brian R. Browder has joined Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP as a partner in the firm’s health care practice group in Nashville.

For more than 30 years, Browder has served as lead counsel on complex health care mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and private equity investments. He works with a variety of health care service providers and has created joint ventures between tax-exempt and investor-owned companies to combine their services and help deliver better care to their patients.

7. Barringer’s death a big loss for real estate community - Friday, October 18, 2024

There is an alternate universe out there that contains the planets known as Personality, Passion, Prose and Performance. This universe lost its sun last week when Jodie Barringer died.

A leader, Realtor, writer and raconteur, Barringer was the Virginia Woolf of real estate, and her very name is in iambic pentameter, she once told me. Yes, Josephine Davenport Barringer Smith, her name in marriage, meets the criteria for that meter form. Her prose was incomparable, and her style that of her own.

8. ‘I’ve been an underdog my whole life’ - Friday, October 18, 2024

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia in the two weeks since the 4-2 Commodores knocked off then-No. 1 Alabama, an upset that sent shock waves through the college football world, it’s that he thrives on being an underdog and relishes every opportunity to prove skeptics wrong.

9. Jill Biden is out campaigning again — but not for her husband anymore. She's pumping up Harris - Friday, October 11, 2024

CLAWSON, Mich. (AP) — Jill Biden wasted no time after she stepped up to the microphone at a suburban Detroit restaurant.

"Now some have come to (the) Detroit area recently and thrown around some insults, but from what I've seen this is a vibrant, thriving city," she said. It was a swipe at Republican Donald Trump, who aimed a recent dart at the most populous city in a critical Midwestern battleground state.

10. Failing to fix a porous defense has been coach Billy Napier's biggest blunder at Florida - Friday, October 4, 2024

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida's historically porous defense can be traced to having three coordinators in as many years, the team's top two pass rushers transferring and bringing together so many new faces that communication, cohesion and consistency seem more like pipedreams than principles.

11. Mexican immigrant families plagued by grief, questions after plant workers swept away by Helene - Friday, October 4, 2024

ERWIN (AP) — With shaking hands, Daniel Delgado kissed a photo of his wife, Monica Hernandez, before lighting a candle in a supermarket parking lot. Family members hugged pictures printed on poster board, some collapsing into them in tears as search helicopters flew overhead in the direction of the hills.

12. Amid Hurricane Helene's destruction, sports organizations launch relief efforts to aid storm victims - Friday, October 4, 2024

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — N.C. State football player Davin Vann was on the move, tiptoeing his way between obstacles in the Wolfpack's indoor practice facility midway through a game week.

And it had nothing to do with the upcoming visit from Wake Forest.

13. The flood of ghost guns is slowing after regulation. It's also being challenged in the Supreme Court - Friday, October 4, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Guy Boyd was hanging out with friends he had known for years in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on the night an accidental gunshot tore into his head.

14. Hurricane Helene's death toll passes 150 as crews search for survivors - Friday, September 27, 2024

SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) — Cadaver dogs and search crews trudged through knee-deep muck and debris in the mountains of western North Carolina on Tuesday looking for victims of Hurricane Helene, days after the storm carved a deadly and destructive path through the Southeast.

15. What to watch as JD Vance and Tim Walz meet for a vice presidential debate - Friday, September 27, 2024

ATLANTA (AP) — Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz will meet Tuesday in the lone vice presidential debate of the 2024 election, bringing together undercards who have spent two months going after each other and the opposing nominees who top the major-party tickets.

16. Harris makes scandal-plagued Republican the star of her campaign to win North Carolina - Friday, September 27, 2024

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — There's an unlikely star in Kamala Harris ' push to win North Carolina: Mark Robinson.

The state's embattled Republican candidate for governor, Robinson is featured in conversations this week with Harris volunteers and voters on the phone and at their doorways. Democrats wave signs warning of Trump-Robinson extremism at their press conferences. Billboard trucks circulate in key cities warning that Robinson, also the state's lieutenant governor, is "unhinged." And Harris is running a new television advertising campaign highlighting Donald Trump's history of lavishing Robinson with flowery praise.

17. Trump tells women he 'will be your protector' as GOP struggles with outreach to female voters - Friday, September 20, 2024

INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — From former President Donald Trump to Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, male Republican candidates are struggling to speak to female voters, using language criticized as tone-deaf and patronizing as they try to win support from women and speak to issues important to them.

18. Trump's goal of mass deportations fell short. But he has new plans for a second term - Friday, September 20, 2024

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Donald Trump has long pledged to deport millions of people, but he's bringing more specifics to his current bid for the White House: invoking wartime powers, relying on like-minded governors and using the military.

19. Voters view Harris more favorably as she settles into role atop Democratic ticket: AP-NORC poll - Friday, September 20, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Until recently, Lillian Dunsmuir of Bullhead City, Arizona, "didn't really think about" Kamala Harris and had no opinion of the vice president. But now she likes what she's seeing.

20. Threats, assassination attempts come with the office Trump once held, is seeking again - Friday, September 20, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump, following an apparent assassination attempt on him on Sunday, claimed that overheated rhetoric from Democrats was responsible for him being under threat.

21. US consumer watchdog moves to permanently ban Navient from federal student loan servicing - Friday, September 13, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has filed a proposed order to permanently ban Navient from directly servicing federal student loans, which the agency says will put an end "years of abuse."

22. Nashville Bar Association names leadership class - Friday, September 13, 2024

The Nashville Bar Association has selected the 2025 NBF Leadership Class. In 2014, the Nashville Bar Foundation established the NBF Leadership Forum – a local leadership program for lawyers with three to eight years of experience – designed to bring together emerging leaders who participate in monthly workshops for nine months to help them realize their potential and to benefit the legal profession and our local community.

23. Ballot measures in 41 states give voters a say on abortion and other tough questions - Friday, August 30, 2024

Life, death, crime and taxes will be on ballots for voters to decide this fall.

More than 140 measures are going before voters in 41 states during the general election alongside choices for president and other top offices. The ballot questions will give voters a chance to directly decide some consequential issues, instead of deferring to their elected representatives.

24. Yochem succeeds Blank as Partnership 2030 co-chair - Friday, August 30, 2024

Carol Yochem has been selected co-chair of Partnership 2030, serving alongside Mayor Freddie O’Connell. Yochem, central region president of First Horizon Bank, succeeds Lee Blank.

Partnership 2030, established in 1990, is Middle Tennessee’s largest public-private partnership that works to enhance Middle Tennessee’s economic vitality and quality of life through strategic investments in education, workforce development and infrastructure. With 250-plus corporate and community partners, the initiative drives economic inclusivity and regional collaboration across a 10-county economic market?.

25. Beyond 'childless cat ladies,' JD Vance has long been on a quest to encourage more births - Friday, August 16, 2024

MIAMI (AP) — Five summers ago, Donald Trump's running mate JD Vance — then a 34-year-old memoirist and father of a 2-year-old boy — took the stage at a conservative conference and tackled an issue that would become a core part of his political brand: the United States' declining fertility rate.

26. US colleges are cutting majors and slashing programs after years of putting it off - Friday, August 9, 2024

Christina Westman dreamed of working with Parkinson's disease and stroke patients as a music therapist when she started studying at St. Cloud State University.

But her schooling was upended in May when administrators at the Minnesota college announced a plan to eliminate its music department as it slashes 42 degree programs and 50 minors.

27. Tennessee, 14 other states sue to block Biden's effort to help migrants in US illegally get health coverage - Friday, August 9, 2024

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Fifteen states filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Biden administration over a rule that is expected to allow 100,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enroll next year in the federal Affordable Care Act's health insurance.

28. Harris, Walz will debut as the 2024 Democratic ticket at a Philadelphia rally - Friday, August 2, 2024

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, turning to an affable longtime politician who Democrats hope can keep newfound party unity alive in a campaign barreling toward Election Day.

29. Biden is pivoting to his legacy. He speaks Monday at the LBJ Presidential Library - Friday, July 26, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, who belatedly opted against seeking reelection, will pay a visit on Monday to the library of the last president to make the same difficult choice, more than a half-century ago.

30. Is paying college athletes charity? Even in the confusing NIL era, it looks increasingly unlikely - Friday, July 26, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Three years into the new age of college sports, where athletes are allowed to profit from their successes through name, image and likeness deals, everyone is still trying to find out what the new normal will be.

31. Appeals court refuses to lift order blocking rule meant to expand protections for LGBTQ+ students - Friday, July 19, 2024

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday refused to lift a judge's order temporarily blocking the Biden administration's new Title IX rule meant to expand protections for LGBTQ+ students.

32. LP chair honored as CEO of the year - Friday, July 19, 2024

LP Building Solutions chair and CEO Brad Southern has been named 2024 North American CEO of the Year by Fastmarkets. This marks the second time in five years Southern has received this recognition.

33. Several Tennessee Olympians to follow in Paris - Friday, July 19, 2024

Of the hundreds of athletes representing the United States in the July 26-Aug. 11 Paris Olympics, 15 have ties to the state of Tennessee, either having lived here or played collegiately for one of the state’s universities. The list more than doubles with the addition of current or former University of Tennessee athletes representing their native countries.

34. Golden dreams for Paris - Friday, July 19, 2024

On its own, a 17-day, all-expenses-paid birthday trip to Paris is a fabulous thing. That’s what Nashville sisters Gretchen and Alex Walsh won earlier this summer.

While in the City of Lights with family, friends and tens of thousands of other sightseers, the Walsh sisters hope to visit the Eiffel Tower and other famous tourist sites, enjoy a taste of French cuisine and go shopping for a few souvenirs.

35. Kamala Harris and JD Vance have talked, but they're yet to agree on terms for a VP debate - Friday, July 12, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican JD Vance on Tuesday had their first chat since the Ohio senator became the GOP vice presidential nominee, but the two sides are still working on terms for participating in a debate, according to three people familiar with the matter.

36. Biden awards $1.7 billion to boost electric vehicle manufacturing and assembly in eight states - Friday, July 12, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is awarding nearly $2 billion in grants to General Motors, Fiat Chrysler and other carmakers to help restart or expand electric vehicle manufacturing and assembly sites in eight states, including the presidential battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia.

37. Spoiler alert: The 911 operator did it - Friday, July 12, 2024

Of the millions of podcasts that have been launched since British journalist Ben Hammersley coined the term in 2004, none of them may be as unique or focused on its subject matter as longtime Nashville emergency dispatcher Brandon Hall’s Music City 911 true crime streaming program.

38. Arthur Crudup wrote the song that became Elvis' first hit. He barely got paid - Friday, June 28, 2024

FRANKTOWN, Va. (AP) — Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup helped invent rock 'n' roll.

His 1946 song "That's All Right," an easygoing shrug to a lover, would become the first single Elvis Presley ever released. Rod Stewart would sing it on a chart-topping album. Led Zeppelin would play it live.

39. What it means for the Supreme Court to throw out Chevron decision, undercutting federal regulators - Friday, June 28, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Executive branch agencies will likely have more difficulty regulating the environment, public health, workplace safety and other issues under a far-reaching decision by the Supreme Court.

40. Supreme Court will take up Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors - Friday, June 21, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday jumped into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to hear an appeal from the Biden administration seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care.

41. MNPS, partners team for FAFSA aid - Friday, June 21, 2024

Metro Nashville Public Schools and a network of Nashville-based college access organizations will host FAFSA completion clinics at more than a dozen locations through July to help recent MNPS graduates and others maximize their financial aid options this summer.

42. Senate confirms new energy regulators, extending Biden's grip on panel that backs renewable energy - Friday, June 14, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden's grip on a key federal energy commission will last beyond his first term, giving a boost to the Democrat's push for renewable energy regardless of the election results in November.

43. Breaking down the teams playing for national championship at the College World Series - Friday, June 7, 2024

A look at the eight teams competing in the College World Series, which starts Friday at Charles Schwab Field. (Capsules in order of CWS opening games. Coaches' records through super regionals):

44. College World Series might offer glimpse of future with only SEC and ACC teams in the field - Friday, June 7, 2024

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The College World Series begins this week and only two conferences will be represented on the game's biggest stage for the first time since the event expanded to eight teams in 1950.

45. Biden and gun control advocates want to flip an issue long dominated by the NRA - Friday, June 7, 2024

ATLANTA (AP) — Groups pushing tighter gun laws have been building political muscle through multiple elections, boosted by the outcry following mass shootings at schools and other public places, in addition to the nation's daily gun violence.

46. Southern Baptists are poised to ban churches with women pastors. Some are urging them to reconsider - Friday, June 7, 2024

From its towering white steeple and red-brick facade to its Sunday services filled with rousing gospel hymns and evangelistic sermons, First Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia, bears many of the classic hallmarks of a Southern Baptist church.

47. In their own words: What young people wish they'd known about social media - Friday, May 31, 2024

It's dangerous. It's addictive. Get off your phone. Kids constantly hear about the downsides of social media from the adults in their lives, often in the form of dire warnings and commands. But these adults did not grow up with social media themselves.

48. Play ball! Things to know entering the NCAA baseball regionals - Friday, May 24, 2024

The NCAA baseball tournament opens Friday with play in 16 double-elimination regionals.

Regional winners advance to best-of-three super regionals next week, and the final eight go to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, beginning June 14.

49. The 'Appeal to Heaven' flag evolves from Revolutionary War symbol to banner of the far right - Friday, May 24, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy in as many weeks, this time over a banner that in recent years has come to symbolize sympathies with the Christian nationalist movement and the false claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

50. 'Green blitz': As election nears, Biden pushes slew of rules on environment, other priorities - Friday, May 24, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — As he tries to secure his legacy, President Joe Biden has unleashed a flurry of election-year rules on the environment and other topics, including a landmark regulation that would force coal-fired power plants to capture smokestack emissions or shut down.

51. Michael Cohen: A challenging star witness in Trump's hush money trial - Friday, May 10, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — He once said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump. Now Michael Cohen is prosecutors' biggest piece of legal ammunition in the former president's hush money trial.

But if Trump's fixer-turned-foe is poised to offer jurors this week an insider's view of the dealings at the heart of prosecutors' case, he also is as challenging a star witness as they come.

52. Technology crushing human creativity? Apple's 'disturbing' new iPad ad has struck a nerve online - Friday, May 10, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — A newly released ad promoting Apple's new iPad Pro has struck quite a nerve online.

The ad, which was released by the tech giant Tuesday, shows a hydraulic press crushing just about every creative instrument artists and consumers have used over the years — from a piano and record player, to piles of paint, books, cameras and relics of arcade games. Resulting from the destruction? A pristine new iPad Pro.

53. Bradley’s Dalton named ECPC chair - Friday, May 10, 2024

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP’s Alé Dalton has been appointed chair of the American Health Lawyers Association’s Early Career Professionals Council (ECPC). Her two-year term will begin at the AHLA’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in June.

54. Katy Perry and Rihanna didn't attend the Met Gala. But AI-generated images still fooled fans - Friday, May 3, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — No, Katy Perry and Rihanna didn't attend the Met Gala this year. But that didn't stop AI-generated images from tricking some fans into thinking the stars made appearances on the steps of fashion's biggest night.

55. Trump's comparison of student protests to Jan. 6 is part of effort to downplay Capitol attack - Friday, April 26, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump on Tuesday lamented the possibility that Columbia University's pro-Palestinian protesters could be treated more leniently than the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, marking the second time in a week the former president has invoked the ongoing campus protests to downplay past examples of right-wing violence.

56. Tennessee, other conservative states challenge federal rule on treatment of transgender students - Friday, April 26, 2024

Several Republican state attorneys general are challenging a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation's schools by banning blanket policies that bar transgender students from school bathrooms aligning with their gender, among other provisions.

57. New federal rule bars transgender school bathroom bans, but it likely isn't the final word - Friday, April 19, 2024

A new rule from President Joe Biden's administration blocking blanket policies to keep transgender students from using school bathrooms that align with their gender identity could conflict with laws in Republican-controlled states.

58. Things to know as courts and legislatures act on transgender kids' rights - Friday, April 12, 2024

Three court rulings across the U.S. this week delved into laws restricting the rights of transgender kids, including the first time the U.S. Supreme Court has gotten involved in a ban on gender-affirming care.

59. Columbia University's president rebuts claims she has allowed school to become a hotbed of hatred - Friday, April 12, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Four months after a contentious congressional hearing led to the resignations of two Ivy League presidents, Columbia University's president appeared before the same committee on Wednesday and unequivocally denounced antisemitism on her campus, rebutting claims that she has allowed Columbia to become a hotbed of hatred.

60. Stites & Harbison hires business litigator - Friday, April 19, 2024

Bridget A. Stewart is joining the business litigation service group at Stites & Harbison, PLLC.

Stewart’s practice focuses on general business and commercial litigation including product liability, professional liability and creditors’ rights matters.

61. Supreme Court gives some military veterans more generous educational benefits - Friday, April 12, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a decorated veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in a protracted fight with the government over 12 months of G.I. Bill educational benefits.

62. Tennessee schools would have to out transgender students to parents under bill heading to governor - Friday, April 12, 2024

NASHVILLE (AP) — Tennessee would join the ranks of states where public school employees have to out transgender students to their parents under a bill advancing in the Republican-supermajority Legislature.

63. Jill Biden says the nation's top teachers will be recognized at their own White House state dinner - Friday, April 5, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden has new guidance for the nation's top teachers.

When they visit the White House later this year, they will be the guests of honor at a state dinner, the first time that the diplomatic nicety typically used to woo foreign heads of state or government will honor educators, according to the first lady, a teacher herself.

64. $15 toll to drive into part of Manhattan has been approved. That's a first for US cities - Friday, March 22, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — New York is on track to become the first U.S. city with congestion tolls on drivers entering its central business district after transit officials approved a $15 fee for most motorists headed into part of Manhattan.

65. Hurry up and wait: Trump's classified documents case is mired in delays that may run past election - Friday, March 22, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The case against Donald Trump seemed relatively straightforward in August 2022 when FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago estate, with authorities citing evidence that the former president hoarded enough classified documents to fill dozens of boxes and obstructed the government's efforts to retrieve them.

66. Multiple-transfer athletes can play next fall while a lawsuit continues, the NCAA says - Friday, March 15, 2024

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — With college basketball's portal season about to tip off, athletes who have transferred multiple times can compete in the next academic year if they meet conditions while a lawsuit continues against the NCAA, the organization said Wednesday.

67. Female representation remains low in US statehouses, particularly Democrats in the South - Friday, March 8, 2024

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Democrat Kayla Young and Republican Patricia Rucker frequently clash on abortion rights and just about everything else in West Virginia's Legislature, but they agree on one thing: Too few of their colleagues are women, and it's hurting the state.

68. School shootings prompt more states to fund digital maps for first responders - Friday, March 8, 2024

When a motion detector went off overnight at Kromrey Middle School, a police dispatcher called up a digital map of the building, pinpointed the detector, clicked on a live feed from the nearest camera and relayed the intruder's location to responding police.

69. Bloomberg tops the Chronicle of Philanthropy's list of America's biggest donors in 2023 - Friday, March 1, 2024

Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, gave the most to charitable causes last year, followed by Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, and Michael Dell and his wife, Susan, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy's exclusive list of the 50 Americans who donated the largest sums to nonprofits last year.

70. Judge holds veteran journalist Catherine Herridge in civil contempt for refusing to divulge source - Friday, March 1, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge held veteran investigative reporter Catherine Herridge in civil contempt on Thursday for refusing to divulge her source for a series of Fox News stories about a Chinese American scientist who was investigated by the FBI but never charged.

71. 'What NIL stands for: Now it's legal': Ruling frees booster-backed groups to negotiate with recruits - Friday, February 23, 2024

Forced into yet another courtroom to defend its amateur model of athletics, the NCAA insisted that shelving its rules against name, image and likeness compensation being offered to recruits would make a difficult situation across the country even more chaotic.

72. Judge rules against NCAA, says NIL compensation rules likely violate antitrust law, harm athletes - Friday, February 23, 2024

A federal judge on Friday barred the NCAA from enforcing its rules prohibiting name, image and likeness compensation from being used to recruit athletes, granting a request for a preliminary injunction from the states of Tennessee and Virginia in dealing another blow to the association's ability to govern college sports.

73. This week's cellphone outage makes it clear: In the United States, landlines are languishing - Friday, February 23, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — When her cellphone's service went down this week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn't panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way — on her landline telephone, the kind she grew up with and refuses to get rid of even though she has a mobile phone.

74. The Supreme Court leaves in place the admissions plan at an elite Virginia public high school - Friday, February 16, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place the admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia that some parents claimed discriminates against highly qualified Asian Americans.

75. Students, parents frustrated by delays in hearing about federal financial aid for college - Friday, February 16, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — For many students, the excitement of being accepted into their first-choice college is being tempered this year by a troublesome uncertainty over whether they'll get the financial aid they need to attend.

76. US Justice Department sues over Tennessee law targeting HIV-positive people convicted of sex work - Friday, February 16, 2024

NASHVILLE (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday sued the state of Tennessee over its decades-old felony aggravated prostitution law, arguing that it illegally imposes tougher criminal penalties on people who are HIV positive.

77. No immediate ruling after preliminary injunction hearing in Tennessee, Virginia NIL lawsuit vs. NCAA - Friday, February 9, 2024

A federal judge said Tuesday he will rule "in short order" on a preliminary injunction requested by the states of Tennessee and Virginia to stop the NCAA from enforcing its rules governing name, image and likeness compensation for athletes as part of an antitrust lawsuit.

78. Super Bowl ads keep it heavy on the celebrities, light on the politics - Friday, February 9, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs were crowned victorious over the San Francisco 49ers in this year's Super Bowl — and, off the field, big-name advertisers competed for viewers' attention with celebrity-filled, glitzy messages.

79. Here's what you can expect from Super Bowl commercials this Sunday - Friday, February 9, 2024

NEW YORK (AP) — Big name advertisers will be pulling out all the stops on Super Bowl Sunday — enlisting high-profile actors, investing in dazzling special effects and, they hope, going for laughs as they seek to win over viewers during game breaks.

80. Judge keeps NCAA's restrictions on NIL in place for now, denying request by Tennessee, Virginia - Friday, February 2, 2024

A judge on Tuesday kept in place for now the NCAA's rules prohibiting name, image and likeness compensation from being used as a recruiting inducement, denying a request for a temporary restraining order by the states of Tennessee and Virginia.

81. The war no one wanted - Friday, February 9, 2024

The congenial relationship between the University of Tennessee and the NCAA has quickly turned sour. A few months after touting their cooperation, Tennessee officials came out swinging against the NCAA for its latest investigation into the UT athletic department. The entities engaged in a war of words last week following the revelation that UT is under NCAA investigation for alleged violations related to name, image and likeness (NIL).

82. Tennessee AG says NCAA is defending 'world that doesn't exists' in request to have NIL rules lifted - Friday, February 2, 2024

In reply to the NCAA claiming college sports would be thrown into "disarray" if rules banning name, image and likeness compensation being used as an recruiting inducements were lifted by court order, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said in a Sunday filing the association is defending "a world that doesn't exist."

83. Vols AD refuses to let NCAA 'irrationally' make example of Tennessee over NIL - Friday, February 2, 2024

Tennessee athletic director Danny White said he is refusing to let the NCAA "irrationally" make an example of the Volunteers over name, image and likeness compensation.

White also accused the NCAA of leaking information to the media earlier this week about Tennessee in his statement on social media on Thursday. He added the NCAA generally doesn't comment on infractions cases because of the rule prohibiting the group from doing that.

84. Tennessee, Virginia AGs suing NCAA over NIL-related recruiting rules with Vols under investigation - Friday, January 26, 2024

The attorneys general of Tennessee and Virginia filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Wednesday, a day after the University of Tennessee's chancellor ripped the association for investigating the school for potential recruiting violations related to name, image and likeness compensation rules.

85. Haley campaigns in South Carolina after losing to Trump in the New Hampshire primary - Friday, January 19, 2024

Donald Trump and President Joe Biden have won the New Hampshire primaries.

The former president clinched his second straight victory in his quest for the 2024 GOP nomination after knocking out most of the field with a commanding win in Iowa. His GOP rival Nikki Haley, meanwhile, came up short in her effort to capitalize on her strength with independent and anti-Trump voters eager for a fresh voice to lead the party.

86. Polsinelli adds Miltimore as shareholder in Nashville - Friday, January 26, 2024

Polsinelli has welcomed Richard Miltimore as a shareholder in the firm’s growing Nashville office and to the real estate & financial services department.

Miltimore is an experienced real estate attorney and former business owner in the payment processing space. He is the 12th shareholder the department has added in the past 12 months and the fifth new shareholder in Polsinelli’s Nashville office in the past year.

87. Lee, music leaders seek protections against AI - Friday, January 19, 2024

Gov. Bill Lee has unveiled new legislation designed to protect songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.

Lee made the announcement Jan. 10 while standing in the middle of Nashville’s famed RCA Studio A, a location where legends such as Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Charley Pride have all recorded. Packed inside were top music industry leaders, songwriters and lawmakers, all eager to praise the state’s rich musical history while also sounding the alarm about the threats AI poses.

88. Supreme Court declines to step into the fight over bathrooms for transgender students - Friday, January 12, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed up a chance to intervene in the debate over bathrooms for transgender students, rejecting an appeal from an Indiana public school district.

Federal appeals courts are divided over whether school policies enforcing restrictions on which bathrooms transgender students can use violate federal law or the Constitution.

89. Some Americans will get their student loans canceled in February as Biden accelerates his new plan - Friday, January 12, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will start canceling student loans for some borrowers in February as part of a new repayment plan that's taking effect nearly six months ahead of schedule.

90. Saban's Alabama dynasty fueled 20 years of SEC college football dominance - Friday, January 12, 2024

PHOENIX (AP) — While turning Alabama into college football's greatest dynasty, Nick Saban helped the Southeastern Conference become the epicenter of the sport.

Saban retired Wednesday after 17 seasons leading Alabama. He won six national championships with the Crimson Tide and a BCS title with LSU in 22 seasons as a head coach in the SEC.

91. Bradley elevates Dalton, Miller to partner - Friday, January 12, 2024

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has elevated 12 attorneys have been elevated to partner across nine offices, including Alé Dalton and Casey L. Miller in Nashville

Dalton is a member of Bradley’s health care practice group, where she assists industry clients with a wide range of transactional, operational and regulatory matters.

92. Freshman QB has Vol fans looking forward to new season - Friday, January 5, 2024

The Nico Iamaleava era has officially launched. After making a few brief appearances this season, the heralded freshman quarterback made his first career start for the University of Tennessee football team in the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl on New Year’s Day.

93. More Americans think foreign policy should be a top US priority for 2024, an AP-NORC poll finds - Friday, December 29, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — In this time of war overseas, more Americans think foreign policy should be a top focus for the U.S. government in 2024, with a new poll showing international concerns and immigration rising in importance with the public.

94. Bass, Berry & Sims adds new associates - Friday, December 22, 2023

Bass, Berry & Sims has added 19 attorneys in Nashville, bringing the total of new attorneys hired across the firm this year to 42.

Joining the firm’s corporate & securities practice as associates are:

95. NCAA athletes who've transferred multiple times can play through the spring semester, judge rules - Friday, December 15, 2023

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — College athletes who have transferred multiple times but were denied the chance to compete immediately can play through the remainder of the academic year, a federal judge ruled Monday.

96. NCAA says a redshirt eligibility rule still applies, fears free agency if it loses transfer suit - Friday, December 15, 2023

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — College basketball programs with multiple-transfer athletes are pondering whether to let them play after a federal judge gave them a small window to compete as part of a ruling in a lawsuit that the NCAA suggests would open college athletics to free agency.

97. College athletes who transfer twice can play, for now, after a judge sets aside NCAA transfer rule - Friday, December 15, 2023

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — College athletes who were denied the chance to play immediately after transferring a second time can return to competition — for now — after a federal judge issued a 14-day temporary restraining order Wednesday against the NCAA.

98. College athletes who transfer twice can play, for now, after a judge sets aside NCAA transfer rule - Friday, December 8, 2023

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — College athletes who were denied the chance to play immediately after transferring a second time can return to competition — for now — after a federal judge issued a 14-day temporary restraining order Wednesday against the NCAA.

99. Tennessee residents clean up after severe weekend storms killed 6 people and damaged neighborhoods - Friday, December 8, 2023

NASHVILLE (AP) — Residents of central Tennessee communities slammed by deadly tornadoes this weekend described tragic and terrifying scenes in which one mobile home landed on top of another, roofs were ripped from houses and an entire church collapsed during a string of powerful storms that killed six people.

100. Lawsuit accuses NCAA of antitrust violation in college athlete transfer rule - Friday, December 8, 2023

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A federal lawsuit filed by a group of states alleges the NCAA's transfer rule for college athletes violates antitrust law.

The lawsuit, filed in West Virginia's northern district, challenges the NCAA's authority to impose a one-year delay in the eligibility of certain athletes who transfer between schools. The suit said the rule "unjustifiably restrains the ability of these college athletes to engage in the market for their labor as NCAA Division I college athletes."