Friday, March 7, 2025 Good Morning! On this day in 1960, legendary musician Elvis Presley was discharged from the U.S. Army and gave an interview to the Memphis media. Watch it here. Speaking of Memphis, two retired firefighters from Bluff City are competing in the new season of the reality show The Amazing Race. You can read […]

Thursday, March 6, 2025 Good Morning! On this day in 1917, Gov. Thomas Clarke Rye signed the Private Acts of 1917 into law, incorporating the neighborhoods of Park City, Lonsdale, Mountain View, and Oakwood into Knoxville’s city limits, significantly expanding the city’s size.  Several evacuations have been ordered (and later lifted) in East Tennessee due […]

Wednesday, March 5, 2025 Good Morning! On this day in 1963, country music artists Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins, along with pilot Randy Hughes, died in a plane crash near Camden. Today also marks a somber day for country music star Dolly Parton, whose husband, Carl Dean, passed away at age 82, as […]

Tuesday, March 4, 2025 Good Morning! On this day in 1829, President Andrew Jackson from Tennessee was inaugurated as the seventh president at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Did you know that Hohenwald is the home of one of America’s top elephant sanctuaries? The location is celebrating its 30th anniversary, as we write in […]

Monday, March 3, 2025 Good Morning! On this day in 1893, Lookout Mountain Battlefield—Point Park was created atop Lookout Mountain to commemorate the Battle of Lookout Mountain and the Battles for Chattanooga during the Civil War. The Battlefield includes 3,000 acres with a 16-acre park. Have you ever wondered what product you would pitch on […]

Friday, February 28, 2025 Good Morning! On this day in 1856, Cheatham County was created from parts of Davidson, Robertson, Montgomery, and Dickson counties. The county name honors Edward Saunders Cheatham, Speaker of the state Senate.  Did you know that three Tennessee colleges were ranked among the most beautiful in the nation? You can read […]

Thursday, February 27, 2025 Good Morning! On this day in 2005, Vanderbilt University’s baseball team defeated the University of Connecticut 3-0 in the Music City Challenge in Nashville.  Heisman winner and ex-NFL quarterback Tim Tebow visited Tennessee on Monday, where he shared a message of hope with inmates, as we highlight in today’s Top Stories. Later […]

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 Good Morning! On this day in 1932, Tennessee country music legend Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland, Arkansas, to Carrie Rivers Cash and Raymond Cash. His Nashville museum remains one of the nation’s top music museums today after his passing in 2003. Police officers responded to reports of a pig on […]

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 Good Morning! On this day in 1961, Gov. Buford Ellington and Memphis Mayor Henry Loeb declared the day as “Elvis Presley Day” during a luncheon celebrating record sales of 75 million. Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of America? A new resolution in the state’s Senate would encourage teachers to use the […]

Monday, February 24, 2025 Good Morning! On this day in 1862, Union troops captured the city of Nashville, marking a major shift in the Civil War. The city remained in Union control, sparing it from the destruction other Southern cities later faced. It may be winter, but that didn’t stop many Tennesseans from taking a […]