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The Springfield Board of Mayor and Alderman approved a contract with MedBen to administer the city’s health insurance program.  The new deal with MedBen is part of what’s known as a preferred provider organization, a medical care arrangement between medical professionals and health insurance companies to offer services to the insurer’s plan policyholders at reduced rates.

Governor Bill Lee is sending 50 members of the Tennessee National Guard to the Texas-Mexico border.  They’ll deploy early next year to help slow the flow of drugs into the United States.  More than 200-thousand pounds of fentanyl and methamphetamine have been seized so far this year, while Tennessee recorded over three-thousand overdose deaths last year.

There are more than two-thousand new coronavirus cases in Tennessee.  The Tennessee Department of Health reported the new cases yesterday, bringing the total since the outbreak began to over one-million-329-thousand.  Over 160 additional COVID-19-related deaths were also reported, with the total number standing at 17-thousand-650.  There are more than 920 COVID-19 hospitalizations in Tennessee.

FedEx is encouraging Robertson County residents to get their Christmas packages shipped as soon as possible.  Tomorrow is the last day to insure packages shipped through FedEx Ground Economy get to their destinations by the big day.  Packages being shipped by FedEx Ground need to be shipped by December 15th and that’s also the deadline for FedEx Home Delivery as well.  Packages going via two-day delivery must be sent by December 22nd., while the overnight services deadline is December 23rd and the FedEx Same Day shipping cutoff is December 24th.

  A student at a high school in Clarksville is facing charges after a gun was allegedly found in his backpack.  An SRO at Rossview High School found the unloaded nine-millimeter semiautomatic handgun after getting a tip yesterday.  A loaded clip with six rounds and one loose round was also found in the student’s backpack.  Rossview administrators say no threat of violence was made against the school.