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Montgomery County Animal Care and Control is looking after eleven new dogs. A man was seen in surveillance footage abandoning them outside the center earlier this week. Ten of the dogs are puppies, belonging to their mother Gaia, who jumped out of the man’s car to be with her babies before chasing after his vehicle. Officials say they are trying to find the owner and add Gaia and her pups will likely end up at a foster or rescue group if they cannot locate him
Local deputies continue their search for a Cheatham County woman who disappeared more than a week ago in Ashland City. County authorities say 25-year-old Chase Stafford was last seen with her boyfriend on Wednesday, March 10th, shortly before he dropped her off on Chapmansboro Road. A bag containing Stafford’s clothes and cell phone were found sometime later on Highway 49. Searchers reportedly are using dogs in the hopes of catching her scent.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skremetti has joined dozens of other Attorneys General across the U.S. calling for the U.S. Department of Education to uphold Title IX [nine] protections when it comes to transgender athletes competing with females. The DOE proposal prohibits schools from issuing sweeping bans on transgender athletes but allows schools to make their own decisions. The AG’s letter to the DOE calls it “overreaching” and adds that it takes away a state’s power to “protect the equality, privacy and safety of females” by allowing biological males to participate in “female sports.”
The Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth released its 2023 County Profiles of Child Well-Being. Some Middle Tennessee counties are among the top in the state, but Shelby County is ranked near the bottom. Williamson was named number one while Sumner, Rutherford and Cheatham were in the top 10. Shelby was placed 93rd out of the 95 counties in Tennessee. The study looked at areas including education, health, economics, family and community.
An 11-hundred-year-old Hebrew Bible sold for more than 38-million dollars at auction in New York City on Wednesday. The Codex Sassoon is one of the world’s oldest surviving biblical manuscripts. It includes all 24 books of the Bible and is missing only about eight pages.