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After an illustrious career in one of the country’s most legendary high school girls basketball programs at Shelbyville (TN) High School, Janie Graves decided she wanted to join Coach Roy Heintz in turning around UAH Lady Charger basketball. Building a program from the ground up is Graves’ desire, and leading from her point guard spot will be pivotal.

“Janie Graves played for Lynn Burkey, one of the best high school coaches in the country, and she has been at the core of the Lady Eaglettes’ success throughout her career,” said Roy Heintz. “Every ...

It’s hard to believe, but in his decades-long career as a member of The Beatles, Wings or as a solo musician, Paul McCartney has never played Music City, U.S.A. On Monday, July 26, McCartney will perform in Nashville for the first time ever.
Macca is bringing his Up and Coming 2010 Tour to the Bridgestone Arena in downtown Nashville. Tickets will go on sale 10 a.m. Monday, June 7 via the Bridgestone Arena box office, all Kroger locations, www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000.
Although this is the former Beatle’s first performance in Nashville, it’s not ...

The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), administered by the Upper Cumberland Human Resource Agency (UCHRA) in 24 middle Tennessee counties, reimburses participating day care home providers all or part of the costs of providing healthy, nutritious meals and snacks to children in their care.  The level of reimbursement depends upon certain economic criteria.  The CACFP, sponsored statewide by the Tennessee Department of Human Services and funded through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, serves both to encourage private day care homes to become licensed and to ensure ...

These days, when incense smoke rises at St. Mina Coptic Orthodox Church, it carries with it prayers of thanks from Nashville's Egyptian community, who lost furniture and carpets to the flood instead of lives.

The Egyptian Christians live quietly, often gathering at the same places, a group persecuted in their Muslim-dominated homeland and granted asylum in the United States. In Middle Tennessee, they've grown from about 100 in the early 1990s to about 4,000 people today. One small Coptic church grew to four.

Many local volunteers and charitable groups learned about them earlier this month, ...

NASA has officially called it quits for the Mars landing craft Phoenix, two years after the stationary probe touched down on the frigid northern polar surface of the Red Planet, the space agency said on Monday.

Phoenix, a solar-powered spacecraft roughly the size of a minivan, landed on Mars on May 25, 2008, and operated for five months, collecting and analyzing soil samples for signs of chemical compositions that would be conducive for life.

But the probe went dormant after the sun dipped below the polar horizon, plunging the landing site into super-cold, round-the-clock darkness for ...