The Lee University School of Nursing will conduct a mass casualty emergency drill on Wednesday, Nov. 28, from 1-5 p.m. This will be an educational event that includes not only the SON, but the Athletic Training Department, communications (journalism) and drama departments, psychology department, and the School of Religion. Students and faculty from across the Lee Campus will ... (click for more)

Lee University’s Dr. Christine Williams has been elected to positions of leadership with the Tennessee Theatre Association. Dr. Williams first entered the TTA in 2016, serving as an East Tennessee representative. Shortly thereafter, she stepped into the chair position of TTA’s Theatre for Youth, coordinating events which hosted hundreds of children and youth at annual TTA conferences. ... (click for more)

The Riverbend Festival is expected to be trimmed to four or five days in 2019, according to several sources. The popular festival in early June centered at Ross's Landing Park on the riverfront has long started on a Friday and continued the next week until the grand finale on Saturday night. Chip Baker, executive director of Friends of the Festival that operates the event, ... (click for more)

The Tennessee Supreme Court issued six execution dates for 2019 and 2020 on Friday. One was for Lee Hall, convicted of the 1991 murder of Traci Crozier in Hamilton County. All of the defendants had previous execution dates set, which were stayed for pending litigation. The Court set an execution date of May 16, 2019, for Donnie Edward Johnson. Johnson was convicted in 1985 of ... (click for more)

Now that prosecutors have dropped charges against Jeff Styles — and he's not been found guilty by a jury of his peers — I hope Bill Lockhart and WGOW will return him to the station. I'm believe his listeners will welcome him back with open arms. After one has been through a ringer like this, I'm not sure how you get your life back unless a good guy like Mr. Lockhart steps up ... (click for more)

Back in late September of 2007, a gutsy Oklahoma State football team had just won a wild 49-46 slugfest against previously unbeaten Texas Tech in Stillwater. In the loser’s locker room, this after OSU’s Zac Peterson drilled a 54-yard TD pass in the waning minute to come from behind, the soon-to-be legend Mike Leach tore his Red Raiders apart. I mean, the man with the lifelong obsession ... (click for more)