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The tech industry is increasingly eyeing rural communities to warehouse servers for cryptocurrency mining and data storage. In a town in rural Tennessee, locals banded together to push back on one such project.
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A TV version of The Rainmaker is out this week, which gave critic Linda Holmes as good a reason as any to rank the on-screen adaptations of John Grisham's legal novels.
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Ron Patterson just completed his first week at the reins of Racer Nation. Much of it, he said during an interview on Thursday, has been “a whirlwind” of activity centered on connecting with the campus community and getting acclimated to his new home. -
In a massive audit released Wednesday, the Republican state auditor accused the Kentucky Department of Education of allowing millions in school funding needlessly lapse. -
The time has come for an infamous flower bloom — rare enough to draw crowds — inside a greenhouse at Austin Peay State University. -
After calling six witnesses over two days, the defense has rested its case in the Crystal Rogers murder trial. The jury will return on Monday to hear closing statements in the trial of Brooks Houck and co-defendant Joseph Lawson.
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The Lions safety shared a social post, saying he's OK and thanking people for their support after he was taken off the field in an ambulance late in a preseason game against the Atlanta Falcons. -
Sandra Grimes died at the age of 79. Her work was crucial in catching a Soviet agent who "caused more damage to the national security of the United States than any spy in the history of the CIA." -
Civil rights lawyers say many migrant detainees in Florida's "Alligator Alcatraz" are being barred from meeting regularly with attorneys and are being held in dangerous conditions. -
Weapons is a story about a community recovering from an inexplicable trauma that arrives like a natural disaster, wreaks havoc, and then cannot be reversed, only survived.
