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Two Portland High School teachers are loading up on supplies to deliver to East Tennessee families impacted by Hurricane Helene. At PHS, Trey Pitt and Matthew Ellithorpe teach “Career and Technical Education” (CTE). The two men hope to gather a list of supplies to drop off to families impacted by the storm, to fill up Mr. Pitt’s cattle trailer. Pitt says the idea suddenly came to him this past weekend, […]

Middle Tennessee was spared from the worst of Hurricane Helene, but some counties still saw high rain totals and wind gusts. In Tennessee, water flooded roads like Old Glenrose Avenue, where an overflow from Mill Creek gushed through a storm drain onto the street. Traffic on Briley Parkway was delayed on Friday after water flooded several freeway lanes near McGavock Pike. As of Saturday morning, rain gauges from across the […]

Hurricane Helene landed as a Category 4 hurricane at 10:10 p.m. (CT) in the Big Bend area of Florida. It is expected to bring catastrophic storm surges and life-threatening winds to that area before moving to Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky. Heavy rain and gusty winds will be here through Saturday morning, but the storm will continue to impact us through the weekend as it stalls out over us. A […]

Students have only been in school for a few months, and Tennessee has already seen hundreds of school threats, most of them hoaxes. Threats not only send parents into a panic but also cost valuable time and money. The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security has investigated more than 320 school threats this year. The Department said that 125 threats occurred in just one week. So far this year, […]