“Quit resisting.”—Cops yell at compliant young man who was thrown to the ground, beaten, arrested and hospitalized for severe injuries to his face and arm, allegedly in retaliation for …
Tensions are high between police and the black community. A new NPR poll says 60 percent of African Americans believe they or someone in their family were unfairly stopped …
The refusal of the judicial industrial complex in Hamilton County to uphold Tennessee’s guilty intention (“premeditation”) law is filling the jail with people who are too poor to make …
The biggest environmental story in 50 years in Southeast Tennessee is the continuing rain of coal industry trash into the breathable air over cities, farms, lakes, farms, gardens, parks, …
Despite pleas from a pure water activist, a public board in Hixson is turning a deaf ear to warnings about a product it admits is industrial waste. Board member …
Clean water activist Heath Marter plans to attend the Hixson Utility District board meeting Friday to suggest that the Tennessee code prohibits fluoridation because it poses a threat to …
A dirty state secret: Ignore “guilty mind.” Culpable intent is required by Tennessee law, but judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys reject it. (Courtesy Noogaradio 92.7) Gladden, Coonrod traffic stop typifies …
Grenda Harmer, the inmate in the state prison in Wartburg, Tenn., is safe today after a member of the Crips gang was removed from a nearby cell from …
