Now that the threat of Hurricanes Helene and Milton has receded, millions of homeowners and business-owners across Florida and the Southeastern U.S. are faced with traversing the often long and laborious process of using insurance to rebuild their lives.

2. Hurricane Milton plows across Florida, pounding cities and whipping up tornadoes. At least 4 dead - Friday, October 11, 2024

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Milton barreled into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after plowing across Florida, pounding cities with ferocious winds and rain, and whipping up a barrage of tornadoes. It caused at least four deaths and compounded the misery wrought by Helene while sparing Tampa a direct hit.

3. Takeaways from AP's report on affordable housing disappearing across the U.S. - Friday, October 4, 2024

LOS ANGELES (AP) — While Americans continue to struggle under unrelentingly high rents, as many as 223,000 affordable housing units across the U.S. could disappear in the next five years alone.

It leaves low-income tenants facing protracted eviction battles, scrambling to pay a two-fold rent increase or more, or shunted back into a housing market where costs can easily eat half a paycheck.

4. As affordable housing disappears, states scramble to shore up the losses - Friday, October 4, 2024

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For more than two decades, the low rent on Marina Maalouf's apartment in a blocky affordable housing development in Los Angeles' Chinatown was a saving grace for her family, including a granddaughter who has autism.

5. The claws are retracted once your deal is closed - Friday, September 27, 2024

“Clawback” isn’t a term most home sellers are concerned about or even familiar with. But it is a growing concern for some sellers who are worried the party purchasing their home could later be found guilty of fraud.

6. Treasury rule would expand tax credits for installing electric vehicle chargers - Friday, September 13, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is moving to clarify how homeowners and businesses can receive lucrative tax credits for installing electric vehicle chargers.

A rule proposed Wednesday by the Treasury Department would make credits worth up to $1,000 for individuals and $100,000 for businesses available for each EV charger that is installed. If finalized, the new rule would be especially valuable to businesses that plan to install multiple chargers and would be eligible for significant credits to offset the expense.

7. Dolly Parton is sending free books to children across 21 states — and around the world - Friday, August 23, 2024

Dolly Parton's father grew up poor and never got the chance to learn to read.

Inspired by her upbringing, the 78-year-old country music legend has made it her mission over the past three decades to improve literacy through her Imagination Library book giveaway program. It has expanded statewide in places like Missouri and Kentucky, two of 21 states where all children under the age of 5 can enroll to have books mailed to their homes monthly.

8. Pictures worth a thousand songs - Friday, August 30, 2024

Ed Rode didn’t know what he didn’t know. Fortunately, he was in a room with someone who did. As a newly hired photographer at the Nashville Banner in Fall 1990, Rode found himself being assigned large-scale projects like chronicling the emerging work of the recently opened Saturn manufacturing plant, but also smaller, unique-to-Nashville assignments around the music business.

9. Blinken says Israel OKs a plan to break the cease-fire impasse and urges Hamas to do the same - Friday, August 16, 2024

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge differences holding up a cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza, and he called on Hamas to do the same, without saying whether concerns cited by the militant group had been addressed.

10. Biden signs order to establish 1908 Springfield race riot monument as he looks to burnish legacy - Friday, August 16, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday designated a national monument at the site of the 1908 race riot in Springfield, Ill., a seminal moment in the United States' long and difficult history with racial violence targeting Black people.

11. How Ferguson elevated the profile of the Justice Department's civil rights enforcers - Friday, August 16, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the first images out of Ferguson, Missouri surfaced 10 years ago — the bloodied body of a man left for hours in the street beneath white sheets, protesters smashing car windows and looting stores — it didn't take long for the federal government to see a role for itself.

12. 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.

13. Thomas acknowledges more travel paid for by Harlan Crow. Colleagues report six-figure book payments - Friday, June 7, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday belatedly acknowledged more travel paid by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, while several colleagues reported six-figure payments as part of book deals.

14. More companies offer on-site child care. Parents love the convenience, but is it a long-term fix? - Friday, May 17, 2024

LAS VEGAS (AP) — They operate in places like an airport, a resort, and a distribution center, tucked away from the public eye but close enough for easy access. They often emit laughter — and the sound of tumbling blocks, bouncing balls, and meandering tricycles.

15. Great names in real estate have all but disappeared - Friday, May 17, 2024

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” So The Bard wrote.

Hunter Connelly, CEO of Parks announced by video to his agents this week they were joining Compass Real Estate, the No. 1 real estate firm in the country by sales volume.

16. Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson pledged $10M for Maui wildfire survivors; they gave much more - Friday, April 19, 2024

Lana Vierra misses the swing set at her Lahaina home, which was reduced to ashes in the wildfires that swept through her community last summer.

"Multiple generations went through there playing in my front yard," she said. "Just with the animals and the turtles and the deer and goats that we once had in that little tiny yard."

17. Why are so many voters frustrated by the US economy? It's home prices - Friday, March 15, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lori Shelton can't fathom ever having the money to buy a home — and that's a major reason why so many voters feel down on the economy ahead of this year's presidential election.

18. Standout moments from the hearing on the Biden classified documents probe by special counsel Hur - Friday, March 8, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's a now-familiar ritual in Washington: a federal prosecutor being summoned to Capitol Hill to discuss the findings of a politically explosive investigation.

Tuesday's hearing with special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated President Joe Biden's handling of classified information, broke little new legal or political ground. But it delivered plenty of talk about the president's memory — faulty, in Hur's assessment — about the laws surrounding classified material and, of course, lots of talk about Donald Trump.

19. Congressional hearing on the Biden classified documents probe turns into a proxy campaign battle - Friday, March 8, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers turned a Tuesday hearing on President Joe Biden's handling of classified documents into a proxy battle between the Democratic president and Republican front-runner Donald Trump, as a newly released transcript of Biden's testimony last fall showed that he repeatedly insisted he never meant to retain classified information after he left the vice presidency.

20. Top Davidson County residential real estate transactions Dec. 2023 - Friday, January 12, 2024

Top Davidson County residential real estate sales for December 2023, as compiled by the Nashville Ledger.

21. 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.

22. US economic growth accelerated to strong 4.9% rate last quarter as consumers shrugged off Fed hikes - Friday, October 27, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's economy expanded at a robust 4.9% annual rate from July through September as Americans defied higher prices, rising interest rates and widespread forecasts of a recession to spend at a brisk pace.

23. At Trump's civil trial, appraiser recalls Eric Trump's 'lofty' views on property value - Friday, October 20, 2023

NEW YORK (AP) — The spotlight at former President Donald Trump's civil fraud trial turned Thursday to his son Eric, with testimony and documents suggesting the scion envisioned a "lofty" value for a suburban golf course and was actively involved in appraisals he has said he doesn't remember.

24. Bankman-Fried must now convince a jury the former crypto king was not a crook - Friday, September 29, 2023

NEW YORK (AP) — For a while, Sam Bankman-Fried tried to convince politicians and the public that he was the next J.P. Morgan. Now, he has to convince a jury that he wasn't, in reality, the next Bernie Madoff.

25. Strobel got more people into homes than any Realtor - Friday, August 11, 2023

This column normally deals with those who own homes and the Realtors who place the homeowners into their homes. This week the story is of the person who almost single-handedly put more people into housing – temporary or permanent – than any Realtor in history.

26. A list of mass killings in the United States since January - Friday, July 14, 2023

The latest mass killing in the United States happened on July 4 in Shreveport, Louisiana, at an annual Independence Day block party just before midnight. It's believed that multiple males exchanged gunfire, leaving at least four people dead and at least seven others injured, the local police chief said at a news conference. Suspects were not immediately identified, and arrests were not immediately made.

27. US sets a grim milestone with new record for the deadliest six months of mass killings - Friday, July 14, 2023

NEW YORK (AP) — Slain at the hands of strangers or gunned down by loved ones. Massacred in small towns, in big cities, inside their own homes or outside in broad daylight. This year's unrelenting bloodshed across the U.S. has led to the grimmest of milestones: The deadliest six months of mass killings recorded since at least 2006.

28. High-end homes continue to defy sagging market - Friday, June 2, 2023

Sales of $2 million or more are commonplace in Nashville, with many neighborhoods logging sales that were unimaginable four years ago. Those with seven-figure dreams dancing in their heads would have been seen as daft in 2019. And as that gave way to 2020, the news of the pandemic should have drowned those dreams.

29. Sam Zell, billionaire real estate investor, dies - Friday, May 19, 2023

Sam Zell, a Chicago real estate magnate who earned a multibillion-dollar fortune and a reputation as "the grave dancer" for his ability to revive moribund properties died on Thursday. He was 81.

Zell died at home due to complications from a recent illness, according to Equity Group Investments, a company he founded in 1968.

30. More companies help with fertility care, but it is still out of reach for many - Friday, May 12, 2023

Jessica Tincopa may leave the photography business she spent 14 years building for one reason: to find coverage for fertility treatment.

After six miscarriages, Tincopa and her husband started saving for in vitro fertilization, which can cost well over $20,000. But the pandemic wiped out their savings, and they can't find coverage for IVF on their state's health insurance marketplace. So, the California couple is saving again, and asking politicians to help expand access.

31. More benefits than secrecy in purchasing through trust - Friday, May 12, 2023

Jerry Patterson, who has been closing real estate transactions for 40 years, noticed a new trend recently. As a partner at the venerable First Title and Escrow Company, the company founded by George Mudter in 1979, Patterson and his cohorts see as many closings as anyone in the Midstate area.

32. Hunter Biden probe free of interference, Garland pledges - Friday, March 3, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland vowed Wednesday he won't interfere with an investigation into Hunter Biden's taxes, a probe that's continuing to unfold as congressional Republicans intensify their focus on the president's son.

33. Brad Paisley pens country song featuring Ukraine's Zelenskyy - Friday, February 24, 2023

NASHVILLE (AP) — A year ago, country star Brad Paisley watched the news on television as Russian troops invaded Ukraine and, like many people around the world, he felt helpless at the images of people fleeing their homes.

34. Full text of Gov. Bill Lee's State of the State address - Friday, February 3, 2023

Thank you very much. Lieutenant Governor McNally, Speaker Sexton, Speaker Pro Tem Haile, Speaker Pro Tem Marsh, Members of the 113th General Assembly, Justices, Constitutional Officers, cabinet members, staff members, friends, family:

35. Biden's handwritten notes part of classified docs probe - Friday, February 3, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is a man who writes down his thoughts. And some of those handwritten musings over his decades of public service are now a part of a special counsel's investigation into the handling of classified documents.

36. Biden's Delaware home is now a player in document drama - Friday, January 13, 2023

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's President Joe Biden's refuge from Washington — a place that's part home office, part Sunday family dinner venue, a safe place for his treasured 1967 Corvette and a makeshift campaign studio during the COVID-19 pandemic.

37. Sarajevo's agony echoes as Ukraine braces for a dark winter - Friday, December 30, 2022

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Vildana Mutevelic huddled in her apartment with her two young children and elderly cousins. They had no heat, electricity or running water as artillery shells tore the roof off their building and almost took their lives.

38. Russia scrubs Mariupol's Ukraine identity, builds on death - Friday, December 23, 2022

Throughout Mariupol, Russian workers are tearing down bombed-out buildings at a rate of at least one a day, hauling away shattered bodies with the debris.

Russian military convoys are rumbling down the broad avenues of what is swiftly becoming a garrison city, and Russian soldiers, builders, administrators and doctors are replacing the thousands of Ukrainians who have died or left.

39. Britain's vulnerable await PM's spending plans with anxiety - Friday, November 11, 2022

LONDON (AP) — Thirugnanam Sureshan maneuvers his wheelchair into the tiny kitchen of his one-bedroom apartment, flips the switch on an electric kettle and brews a mug of instant coffee. It's his second hot drink of the day, and it will be his last.

40. US heating worries mount amid growing costs, uncertainty - Friday, October 21, 2022

JAY, Maine (AP) — Across the U.S., families are looking to the winter with dread as energy costs soar and fuel supplies tighten.

The Department of Energy is projecting sharp price increases for home heating compared with last winter and some worry whether heating assistance programs will be able to make up the difference for struggling families. The situation is even bleaker in Europe, with Russia's continued curtailment of natural gas pushing prices upward and causing painful shortages.

41. Winter is coming: Ukrainians dig in for brutal season ahead - Friday, October 14, 2022

KIVSHARIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Nine-year-old Artem Panchenko helps his grandmother stoke a smoky fire in a makeshift outdoor kitchen beside their nearly abandoned apartment block. The light is falling fast and they need to eat before the setting sun plunges their home into cold and darkness.

42. Trump supporters' threats to judge spur democracy concerns - Friday, August 12, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of federal judges face the same task every day: review an affidavit submitted by federal agents and approve requests for a search warrant. But for U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart, the fallout from his decision to approve a search warrant has been far from routine.

43. Economics of war: Pain for Europe now, later for Russia - Friday, July 15, 2022

Across Europe, signs of distress are multiplying as Russia's war in Ukraine drags on. Food banks in Italy are feeding more people. German officials are turning down the air conditioning as they prepare plans to ration natural gas and restart coal plants.

44. 'Silicon Heartland' boon for Ohio, but families mourn homes - Friday, June 24, 2022

JOHNSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — When President Joe Biden applauded a decision by Intel Corp. to build a $20 billion semiconductor operation on "1,000 empty acres of land" in Ohio, it didn't sit well with Tressie Corsi.

45. 'Completely out of the game' - Friday, June 3, 2022

Buying a home in Middle Tennessee these days is, shall we say, challenging.

Boatloads of buyers with cold, hard cash are making multiple offers on the relatively few homes for sale. Behind them are relatively affluent two-income families that still have to go through the mortgage loan process.

46. Russian threats push Finland toward joining NATO alliance - Friday, May 13, 2022

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Finland's leaders Thursday came out in favor of applying to join NATO, and Sweden could do the same within days, in a historic realignment on the continent 2 1/2 months after Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine sent a shiver of fear through Moscow's neighbors.

47. Nearly 1 million COVID-19 deaths: A look at the US numbers - Friday, May 6, 2022

Doug Lambrecht was among the first of the nearly 1 million Americans to die from COVID-19. His demographic profile — an older white male with chronic health problems — mirrors the faces of many who would be lost over the next two years.

48. Ukraine slams Kyiv attack amid new Mariupol rescue effort - Friday, April 29, 2022

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's leader accused Russia of trying to humiliate the United Nations by raining missiles on Kyiv during a visit by Secretary-General António Guterres, an attack that shattered the capital's tentative return to normality as the focus of the war moved east.

49. Biden pardons former Secret Service agent and 2 others - Friday, April 22, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has granted the first three pardons of his term, providing clemency to a Kennedy-era Secret Service agent convicted of federal bribery charges that he tried to sell a copy of an agency file and to two people who were convicted on drug-related charges but went on to become pillars in their communities.

50. Bosnians warn Ukrainians: It's a long journey to justice - Friday, April 15, 2022

SARAJEVO, Bosnia (AP) — Regardless of how the Russian war in Ukraine ends, getting justice for human rights abuses suffered during the conflict will inevitably be a long and painful process for those who survive to tell of the atrocities they witnessed.

51. Number of Ukraine refugees passes worst-case U.N. estimate - Friday, March 25, 2022

MEDYKA, Poland (AP) — The number of people who have fled Ukraine since Russian troops invaded has surpassed 4 million, the United Nations reported Wednesday as shelling continued in places where Moscow had vowed to ease its military operations.

52. 60 miles from Ukraine, Biden sees refugee crisis in Poland - Friday, March 25, 2022

RZESZOW, Poland (AP) — Just 60 miles from Ukraine, President Joe Biden saluted Poland on Friday for giving refuge to more than 2 million refugees who have fled Russia's invasion,; then he met with humanitarian experts on the ground about what will be needed to mitigate the growing suffering.

53. Ukraine retakes key Kyiv suburb; battle for Mariupol rages - Friday, March 18, 2022

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian forces fought off continuing Russian efforts to occupy Mariupol and claimed to have retaken a strategic suburb of Kyiv on Tuesday, mounting a defense so dogged that it is stoking fears Russia's Vladimir Putin will escalate the war to new heights.

54. 'Scum of the earth': Drug victims face Purdue Pharma owners - Friday, March 11, 2022

NEW YORK (AP) — Angry, defiant and sometimes tearful, more than two dozen Americans whose lives were upended by the opioid crisis finally had their long-awaited chance Thursday to confront in court some members of the family they blame for fueling it.

55. As Ukrainians flee, 'we even feel a bit guilty we are OK' - Friday, March 4, 2022

MEDYKA, Poland (AP) — Walking the final 14 miles to Ukraine's border and to safety, Ludmila Sokol was moved by the mounds of clothes and other personal effects that many people discarded as they fled the fighting before her.

56. S. Korean COVID deaths rise, hope rests on high booster rate - Friday, February 11, 2022

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea reported its highest number of COVID-19 deaths in a month Tuesday as U.S. health authorities advised Americans to avoid traveling to the country grappling with a fast-developing omicron surge.

57. Omicron amps up concerns about long COVID and its causes - Friday, January 28, 2022

More than a year after a bout with COVID-19, Rebekah Hogan still suffers from severe brain fog, pain and fatigue that leave her unable to do her nursing job or handle household activities.

Long COVID has her questioning her worth as a wife and mother.

58. EPA acts on environmental justice in 3 Gulf Coast states - Friday, January 21, 2022

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a series of enforcement actions to address air pollution, unsafe drinking water and other problems afflicting minority communities in three Gulf Coast states, following a "Journey to Justice" tour by Administrator Michael Regan last fall.

59. Snow, ice blast through South with powerful winter storm - Friday, January 14, 2022

ATLANTA (AP) — A dangerous winter storm combining high winds and ice swept through parts of the U.S. Southeast on Sunday, knocking out power, felling trees and fences and coating roads with a treacherous, frigid glaze.

60. Tornado killed 7 children on single Kentucky street - Friday, December 10, 2021

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — The little red wagon was strewn upside down on a heap of rubble — a pile of boards and bricks, a mangled blue bicycle, a baby doll.

Behind it, there was little more than a hole in the ground where a house had stood. Across the street, the tidy homes on this cul-de-sac were reduced to mounds of lumber. Clothes hung from the branches of snapped trees. The walls of one house were gone, and the only thing left standing inside was a white Christmas tree.

61. New hurdle for COVID-19 home testing -- the holiday season - Friday, November 19, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Millions more home tests for COVID-19 are hitting store shelves, but will there be enough for Americans hoping to screen themselves before holiday gatherings?

Gone are last year's long lines to get tested, thanks to nearly a year of vaccinations, increased testing supplies and quicker options. But with many Americans unvaccinated and reports of infections among those who've gotten the shots, some are looking to home tests for an extra layer of protection ahead of this year's festivities.

62. Another COVID toll: $2 billion for funeral costs - Friday, November 19, 2021

Pulverized homes, splintered trees and decimated buildings over a mile-long debris trail. Scorched earth or waist-high floodwaters. Those images of natural disasters come to mind when the Federal Emergency Management Agency rushes in the help Americans in times of need.

63. Energy crunch hits global recovery as winter approaches - Friday, October 15, 2021

Power shortages are turning out streetlights and shutting down factories in China. The poor in Brazil are choosing between paying for food or electricity. German corn and wheat farmers can't find fertilizer, made using natural gas. And fears are rising that Europe will have to ration electricity if it's a cold winter.

64. Eviction confusion, again: end of US ban doesn't cause spike - Friday, October 1, 2021

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Chandra Dobbs was stunned when the constable showed up on her doorstep with a fat packet of eviction papers. She thought she had more time.

65. VA loans mount comeback; August sales in slight retreat - Friday, September 17, 2021

There was a time when there were fewer veterans than there are now, and Veterans’ Administration loans had seemingly faded away.

With the 20 years of fighting in and around Iraq and Afghanistan, there have been tens of thousands of men and women serving our country, and the number of veterans eligible for VA loans has skyrocketed.

66. Imagination, Skittles help boy, 5, conquer Appalachian Trail - Friday, August 20, 2021

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Harvey Sutton, or "Little Man," as he is known on the Appalachian Trail, won't have long to bask in the glory of hiking its full length. After all, he starts kindergarten Friday.

67. Nissan returns to profit, forecasts profit for year - Friday, July 23, 2021

TOKYO (AP) — Nissan reported a 114.5 billion yen ($1 billion) profit for the April-June quarter as its sales and profitability improved, especially in the U.S. market.

The Japanese automaker says it expects to return to profit for the fiscal year through March 2022, with a 60 billion yen ($545 million) profit. It had previously expected to sink into a 60 billion yen annual loss.

68. Trump Organization, CFO indicted on tax fraud charges - Friday, July 2, 2021

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump's company and its longtime finance chief were charged Thursday in what prosecutors called a "sweeping and audacious" tax fraud scheme in which the executive collected more than $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation, including apartment rent, car payments and school tuition.

69. Rental assistance falls victim to politics, bureaucracy - Friday, June 25, 2021

Before the pandemic hit, Jacqueline Bartley, a mother of two girls and a boy, had a comfortable life. Then the 41-year-old lost her job at American Airlines, quickly spent her savings and found herself months behind on the $1,350-a-month home she rented. Until then she had never missed a rent payment.

70. Another jump in prices tightens the squeeze on US consumers - Friday, June 11, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — American consumers absorbed another surge in prices in May — a 0.6% increase over April and 5% over the past year, the biggest 12-month inflation spike since 2008.

The May rise in consumer prices that the Labor Department reported Thursday reflected a range of goods and services now in growing demand as people increasingly shop, travel, dine out and attend entertainment events in a rapidly reopening economy.

71. Building boom’s dark cloud - Friday, March 26, 2021

One year into the coronavirus pandemic, Nashville builders and homeowners are holding on to the bucking bronco that is the construction industry.

Prices for some much-used wood products have doubled and even tripled over the past year. Lead times for windows, appliances and more have stretched into weeks and months. Prices of other materials are rising or in short supply as well, and mortgage rates have been edging up.

72. COVID-19 law sparks dialogue on nursing home alternatives - Friday, March 19, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the memory of the pandemic's toll in nursing homes still raw, the COVID-19 relief law is offering states a generous funding boost for home- and community-based care as an alternative to institutionalizing disabled people.

73. Traditions on hold, justices near a year of phone arguments - Friday, March 12, 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers arguing in jeans and hoodies. A justice who has been silent for years regularly talking. A sound like a toilet flushing during the discussion of a case.

Arguments at the Supreme Court have looked and sounded a lot different over the past year since the justices closed their marble-columned courtroom to the public and began hearing cases by telephone because of the coronavirus pandemic.

74. 'Umbrella of stress' on GM staff, 2 years after plant closed - Friday, March 5, 2021

When General Motors ended a half-century of building cars in Ohio's blue collar corner, 1,600 workers had to decide whether to accept the automaker's offer to move to another factory.

Those with enough seniority retired. A few started new careers. Everyone else from GM's shuttered assembly plant in Lordstown went as far away as Texas, Tennessee, and Missouri, some leaving behind their families so they could hang onto their pensions and high-paying union jobs.

75. A season of fear, not cheer, as virus changes Christmas - Friday, December 18, 2020

Montserrat Parello lost her husband eight years ago, and Christmas gatherings with children and grandchildren had helped her deal with her loneliness. But this year, the 83-year-old will be alone for the holiday at her home in Barcelona, due to the risk of infection from the coronavirus.

76. Not just COVID: Nursing home neglect deaths surge in shadows - Friday, November 20, 2020

When COVID-19 tore through Donald Wallace's nursing home, he was one of the lucky few to avoid infection.

He died a horrible death anyway.

77. Not just COVID: Nursing home neglect deaths surge in shadows - Friday, November 13, 2020

When COVID-19 tore through Donald Wallace's nursing home, he was one of the lucky few to avoid infection.

He died a horrible death anyway.

Hale and happy before the pandemic, the 75-year-old retired Alabama truck driver became so malnourished and dehydrated that he dropped to 98 pounds and looked to his son like he'd been in a concentration camp. Septic shock suggested an untreated urinary infection, E. coli in his body from his own feces hinted at poor hygiene, and aspiration pneumonia indicated Wallace, who needed help with meals, had likely choked on his food.

78. Veteran surprised in Nashville with mortgage-free home - Friday, November 13, 2020

NASHVILLE (AP) — An Army veteran who survived a suicide bomber attack, endured multiple surgeries and continues to work through memory issues was surprised with a mortgage-free home by Craig Morgan's announcement at the Grand Ole Opry.

79. With COVID-19 surging, schools suspend in-person education - Friday, November 13, 2020

With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the state spiking to record levels, bus drivers and teachers in quarantine, students getting sick and the holidays looming, Schools Superintendent Scott Hanback in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, made a tough decision this week.

80. AP-NORC poll: New angst for caregivers in time of COVID-19 - Friday, October 9, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic has thrust many Americans into the role of caring for an older or disabled loved one for the first time, a new poll finds.

And caregivers on the whole say they're encountering unexpected risks and demands as a result of the virus, requiring greater time and effort. Still, they're more worried about the relatives and friends they are helping than about themselves.

81. Packing up is hard to do: Sell the house and get out - Friday, October 9, 2020

Houses keep selling, often more quickly than owners anticipated. With the holidays approaching, many sellers who were not expecting the houses to sell and close in such a short time period are attempting to push the buyers into allowing them to stay longer in their homes.

82. Madrid struggles as center of pandemic's 2nd wave in Europe - Friday, September 4, 2020

MADRID (AP) — A mix of worry and resignation is discernible behind the masks of parents picking up school textbooks in a working class Spanish neighborhood with a steady rise in new coronavirus infections.

83. Nissan's Ghosn gone, American Kelly faces Japan trial alone - Friday, September 4, 2020

TOKYO (AP) — His boss Carlos Ghosn escaped financial misconduct charges by fleeing the country, but another former Nissan executive is still awaiting trial in Japan: Greg Kelly.

84. Return to the one-room schoolhouse - Friday, August 21, 2020

Williamson County mom Jenny Myhr’s mornings are just as hectic as ever. The pandemic that changed most aspects of life the past six months is no longer providing slower mornings or a reduced schedule.

85. Vanderbilt center to aid online teaching - Friday, July 24, 2020

Vanderbilt University is launching a new instructional design support service, available this summer and fall to all faculty, designed to provide concierge-level support to help faculty transition to teaching online.

86. US mail delays likely as new postal boss pushes cost-cutting - Friday, July 10, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mail deliveries could be delayed by a day or more under cost-cutting efforts being imposed by the new postmaster general. The plan eliminates overtime for hundreds of thousands of postal workers and says employees must adopt a "different mindset" to ensure the Postal Service's survival during the coronavirus pandemic.

87. Distancing from Trump? Some Republicans step up critiques - Friday, June 26, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than three years, President Donald Trump instilled such fear in the Republican Party's leaders that most kept criticism of his turbulent leadership or inconsistent politics to themselves.

88. 'This isn't a new conversation for us' - Friday, June 12, 2020

Rene Syler remembers having to confront a South Carolina shop owner for targeting her daughter for “shopping while black.”

Damien and Christina Charley remember that after a high school football game their daughter was told to go back to picking cotton.

89. AP FACT CHECK: Trump, GOP falsehoods on Flynn, Biden, virus - Friday, May 15, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his GOP allies are misrepresenting the facts behind the legal case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn as they seek to allege improper behavior during the Obama administration in the presidential campaign season.

90. Shutdown? Restrictions barely dent area home sales - Friday, May 1, 2020

Homes continue to sell during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 302 moving into the “under contract” category, Realtracs reports. That’s an increase of almost 20% compared to the 253 that went under contract the week before.

91. Easing transition from classroom to home - Friday, April 3, 2020

From “Classroom to Cloud.” That’s what the Northshore School District of Washington state is calling its shift from in-person to online schooling. The shift occurred after the coronavirus, COVID-19, forced schools to shut down to slow the spread of the virus.

92. Turn out the lights, the party’s over - Friday, April 3, 2020

He’s seen fire and he’s seen rain, but his violinist and accompanying vocalist, Andrea Zonn, says James Taylor never thought that he’d see a time when a virus from China would wipe out his spring and, likely, summer schedules.

93. Feeding tornado victims while avoiding the new killer - Friday, March 20, 2020

King Antonio – resting briefly on a 2-foot-tall retaining wall in front of his battered “home church” on Monroe Street – admits he’s worried about coronavirus, but he knows his time is better spent helping his old neighborhood dig out of the more-tangible disaster, the rubble left by the tornado.

94. Special sound, stolen in dead of night - Friday, March 6, 2020

Stellar Nashville drummer Martin Lynds still possesses magnificent chops. But he may never again sound just like Martin Lynds.

Vile human coyotes who prey on their brethren – the majority of us, for whom grace and trust are signposts – have chomped into his soul.

95. Garden memories yield to tall-skinnies - Friday, February 7, 2020

Dogan’s Garden – where I discovered mental, physical and spiritual respite – is gone, all but its memory erased by development and viral heritage neglect.

When I learned the home with its yard filled with countless multicolored plastic tulips had been sacrificed, I hastily drove to 2122 Herman Street, where the Rev. Dr. Dogan W. Williams – “just call me Dogan” – had retired after a career in the United Methodist ministry and a life spent advocating equality, kindness, scriptures, Jesus and easy friendship’s warm embrace.

96. Charities steered $65M to Trump lawyer Sekulow, family - Friday, January 31, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jay Sekulow, one of President Donald Trump's lead attorneys during the impeachment trial, is being paid for his legal work through a rented $80-a-month mailbox a block away from the White House.

97. Record market obliterating affordable housing in area - Friday, January 24, 2020

The Greater Nashville Realtors made it official last week in announcing that 2019 set the record for the most overall sales in real estate history in the Greater Nashville area. With 42,356 total sales, the area topped last year’s sales of 39,514, even with inventory disappearing in David Copperfield fashion.

98. Chick-fil-A halts donations to 3 groups against gay marriage - Friday, November 15, 2019

Chick-fil-A is ending donations to three groups that oppose gay marriage in an effort to halt protests and broaden its customer base.

But the move has angered some of the fast food chain's fans.

99. AP FACT CHECK: Trump's flawed 'read the transcript' defense - Friday, November 8, 2019

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's been his drumbeating demand: "Read the transcript!"

"Just read the transcript."

"Can't we read English?"

"Just read the Transcript, everything else is made up garbage."

100. Laffer Investments now part of ButcherJoseph - Friday, November 8, 2019

Laffer Investments, Inc., an SEC registered investment adviser based in Nashville, has been acquired by ButcherJoseph Financial Holdings, LLC, an investment banking firm.

Offices of the firm will be in Charlotte, Nashville and Phoenix.