The State Board of Education has agreed to reduce penalties against five Signal Mountain High School educators after county school officials met last Friday with state officials and provided additional information. The state initially flagged the contracts of guidance counselors Dr. LeAnn Welch, Dr. Anne Cushing and Leslie Sharpe, assistant principal Jason McKinney and boys ... (click for more)

An online petition drive has been launched to ask county school officials to rescind the decision of Supt. Rick Smith to suspend Signal Mountain High School Principal Tom McCullough for the remainder of the school year. By Wednesday afternoon, there were 186 signing on, including many with ties to Signal Mountain High/Middle. Dr. McCullough is retiring at the end of this year. ... (click for more)

RE: Freedom From Religious Group Objects To Prayer At County Commission Meetings  "Attorney Elliott said, "I remind Hamilton County commissioners that the U.S. was the first nation to adopt a secular constitution, investing sovereignty in We the People, not a divine entity. Significantly, there was no prayer during the Constitutional Convention." From the Declaration ... (click for more)

As Jackie McConnell was being told he now faces up to five years in prison and a multitude of other penalties after pleading guilty to just one of 48 counts in violation of the Horse Protection Act on Tuesday, the outcry from Tennessee Walking Horse owners was incredible and there is a groundswell of support growing to either clean up a very crooked industry or actually ban it. ... (click for more)

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- While reporters and players were mingling after Soddy-Daisy's state softball victory Wednesday over Munford, Lady Trojan assistant coach Lamar Lasley came through with a classic one-liner. "Dont' anybody touch Haley Reynolds because she is on fire,'' Lasley said. And he was so right. Reynolds, a sophomore first-baseman, was 4-for-4 as Soddy-Daisy ... (click for more)

"If there was no GPS, we wouldn't push ourselves as hard as we do. GPS is a very talented team, hungry to beat us. They should be proud of how they played today." -- Dustin Kane, Baylor Girls Tennis Coach   MURFREESBORO  5/23/12 -- After the Baylor girls tennis team defeated Girls Preparatory School, 4-1 for the D-II AA state championship, Red Raiders coach ... (click for more)