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Metro councilman Loniel Greene, Jr. was taken to an area hospital after he was shot multiple times near a west Nashville gas station.

Officials with Metro police said Greene, councilman for District 1, was shot three times -- once in the elbow, shoulder, and chest.

The incident happened not far from a Marathon gas station on Oceola…

Spike Lee has a new joint coming out. Samuel L. Jackson, Wesley Snipes and Nick Cannon are among others are in the film.

Watch the video and let us know what you think.

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Religion is apparently weakening in America. A new report from the Pew Research Center shows that the percentage of Americans who say they believe in God, pray daily and attend church regularly is declining.

Among the findings:

    The share of Americans who say they are "absolutely certain" that God exists has dropped 8…

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Allegedly, car dealers charge Black and Latino customers up to $300 more than their white customers with comparable credit ratings.

This is the finding from an investigation carried out by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the…

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Joseline Hernandez- 29 years old

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The Ken Whisenhunt era is over with the Tennessee Titans.

Just 23 games into his tenure as head coach, Whisenhunt was informed on Tuesday morning the organization wants to go in a different direction.

The final decision came just two days after the Titans lost their sixth straight game, in Houston, where the team’s ownership…

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What do you think I want, respect or compliance?”

This was the question I posed to my class this week, after I asked them to define the terms. For compliance they yelled out things like “following orders” and “obedience.” They defined respect as “valuing the thoughts of others,” “being loyal,” and so on.

I asked them to define respect versus…

(CNN)Fred Thompson, a former U.S. senator for Tennessee and actor, has died. He was 73.

Thompson died after a recurrence of lymphoma, his family said in a statement Sunday. He was first diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma more than a decade…

On Tuesday morning, Twitter user _zolarmoon, who also goes by Aziah King, used her account to write an epic story in 150 tweets.

Her first tweet, posted along with a photo of herself and an unnamed white woman, reads, "Y'all wanna hear a story about why me & this b!tch here fell out? It's…

National test results released Wednesday "put an exclamation point" on Tennessee’s reading troubles, according to Education Commissioner Candice McQueen.

While many states saw gains in reading and backtracking on math, Tennessee was the other way around.

Tennessee’s ranking in 4th grade reading dropped from 31st in the country…

Late Thursday evening, Billboard tweeted a picture of Kim Kardashian’s young child North West sucking on a lollipop, accompanied by the phrase, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” What exactly were they trying to suggest?

The linked post is one…

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Joe Budden is in a beef after getting kicked off Twitter personality Taxstone's Tax Season podcast. Budden got the boot after Tax accused him of being a "master manipulator," who sidestepped his questions. In a heated exchange, Tax also called Budden "retarded" and made several threats towards the rapper.

Future might not be claiming Blac Chyna…

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said on Wednesday he has fired school resource officer Ben Fields after his actions inside a Spring Valley High School classroom on Monday

The sheriff's department conducted a swift internal affairs investigation after shocking videos surfaced that showed Fields…