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New Sarasota Orchestra director reflects on his tenure with Nashville Symphony
What started as a way to make friends playing percussion in Costa Rica, evolved into an award-winning career as an ...
Trump says he's pardoning a Virginia sheriff convicted on bribery charges
President Donald Trump says he is pardoning a former Virginia sheriff who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in a federal ...
Trump's speech to West Point graduates mixes praise, politics and grievances
The speech, to 1,002 members of the Class of 2025, was the first service academy commencement address of his second term.
The Eagle15d
A look at the status of US executions in 2025
Fifteen men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S., and 12 other people are scheduled to be put to death in eight states during the ...
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OSHA investigators says Tennessee company gave employees enough time to flee hurricane flooding. The workers disagree
At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters ... Investigators in Tennessee say the management of plastics company gavve employees enough time to leave its facility before flooding ...
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TOSHA report clears Impact Plastics of wrongdoing in Helene flood
NORTHEAST TENNESSEE (WCYB) — In Unicoi County, six employees working at Impact Plastics were killed in ... When they told us we could leave it was just too late I mean there was no way out ...
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Tennessee severe weather: Death toll hits 5 as Nashville braces for more storms, flooding
""What's really encouraging is seeing what's going on behind us," he said ... Weather Service issued a Flash Flood Warning for much of Middle Tennessee. Road conditions will be questionable ...
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Impact Plastics sent fast food gift cards to grieving families while denying wrongdoing in the deaths of six employees during Hurricane Helene
Instead of accepting responsibility for their role in the tragedy, the Erwin, Tennessee ... how they treated us and what they thought about us.” The tragedy at Impact Plastics unfolded on ...
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‘Your mom died, but go get a burger’: Impact Plastics sent flood victims fast food gift cards, families say
Guillermo said Bertha worked at the East Tennessee plastics factory for several years ... “That is how they treated us and what they thought about us.” Class action law firm Milberg is ...
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Hurricane Helene destroyed a Tennessee hospital. Officials knew it was at risk.
The storm prompted a deadly flash flood that tore through Unicoi County in eastern Tennessee ... wave of rural hospital closures across the United States, Erwin residents celebrated when the ...
The Washington Post6mon
The decisions that cost some lives and saved others during Helene’s wrath
The workers at the Impact Plastics factory were frantic. Muddy water was overflowing from the Nolichucky River in East Tennessee into ... “They kept telling us 15 to 20 minutes and they ...
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6th Tennessee Factory Worker Is Found a Month After Flooding From Helene
By Rachel Nostrant The remains of a sixth factory worker in eastern Tennessee who was swept ... one of a half-dozen victims of the flood who worked at Impact Plastics, a factory in the close ...