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The Cheatham County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the discovery of a body at Cheatham Dam. It was found yesterday morning and has not yet been identified. Police have been looking for 25-year-old Chase Stafford, who was last seen May 10th when she was dropped off on Chapmansboro Road in Ashland City.
The pay for teachers is going up in Tennessee. Governor Bill Lee signed legislation today to raise the minimum teacher’s salary to 50-thousand-dollars by 2026. It was 35-thousand-dollars in 2019. The governor calls the Teacher Paycheck Protection Act a landmark bill that will give teachers the largest pay raise in state history. Lee says it will also protect teachers and taxpayers by ensuring that union membership dues are no longer collected by school districts.
The parents of a Hendersonville High School football player who claims he was sexually assaulted last fall are taking Sumner County Schools and associated school-board members to court. Lawyers for the unidentified teen’s parents allege that, in September, some of the boy’s teammates wrestled him to the ground, stripped him of his clothes and assaulted him. Sources say they also spewed racial slurs. Two of those students reportedly were prosecuted. District officials confirm that the alleged victim is currently enrolled at a different school.
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. The former U.S. Ambassador to Romania, Alfred Moses, had the winning bid of 38-point-one million dollars for the leather-bound, handwritten parchment volume containing a nearly complete Hebrew Bible. It includes all 24 books of the Bible And is missing only about eight pages. Alfred Moses will donate it to a Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv.
Gas prices continue to decline across the Volunteer State. As reported by Triple-A, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded fell to just over three dollars, 13 cents today in Tennessee, this as the corresponding national figure rose slightly to roughly three dollars and 54 cents. Prices remain lowest in Mississippi, rising incrementally slightly yesterday to just under two-98. At the opposite end of the gas-price spectrum, costs remain highest in California, where the average price fell to just under four-79, which stands at just a penny above the corresponding figure in Hawaii.