Police Releases Name of Homicide Victim; Victim’s Boyfriend Linked to Murder

Police Releases Name of Homicide Victim; Victim’s Boyfriend Linked to Murder

The woman shot and killed inside her Fortress Blvd. apartment has been identified as 30-year-old Eva Silver. Silver’s boyfriend, identified as the suspect, shoots himself after a standoff with Hendersonville police yesterday. Silver was found inside her Garrison Station apartment by a family member around 11 a.m. Tuesday. Investigators developed her boyfriend, 29-year-old Tyler Gardner…

MTSU Summer STEM Camp Registration Opens March 15 for High Schoolers

MTSU Summer STEM Camp Registration Opens March 15 for High Schoolers

Registration for the second Middle Tennessee State University College of Basic and Applied Sciences summer STEM camp will begin Wednesday, March 15. This summer, from June 19-23, the college will triple the number of participants and increase the number of faculty and departments involved with the camp highlighting science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Students entering…

MTSU Alumna Helps Win NAACP Award

MTSU Alumna Helps Win NAACP Award

Middle Tennessee State University public history alumna Katherine Crawford-Lackey took a historic preservation philosophy to her role at founding father James Madison’s estate in Virginia, working to safeguard an honest and inclusive history at a National Historic Landmark. “It begins with addressing historical erasure” said Crawford-Lackey, a 2020 graduate of MTSU’s Public History Ph.D. Program….

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The JROTC Program at Blackman High has Grown Into a Multi-Award Winning Program

Students who enter Blackman High School as a freshman have no shortage of opportunities and clubs to join. There are star-studded sports teams, academic organizations, and arts clubs – and then there’s JROTC. Blackman High School’s Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps — more commonly known as JROTC — is a military-oriented leadership organization which has…

Murfreesboro Police Investigating the Shooting Death of Woman Found Inside Her Apartment

Murfreesboro Police Investigating the Shooting Death of Woman Found Inside Her Apartment

Murfreesboro Police Department (MPD) Criminal Investigations Division (CID) detectives are investigating the shooting death of a woman found inside her apartment on Tuesday, March 14. Police are still looking for the shooter. Officer responded to the Garrison Station Apartments on Fortress Blvd. for a report of a corpse at 11 a.m. Once inside, responding officers…

MTSU’s Zaza receives Nashville Technology Council Award

MTSU’s Zaza receives Nashville Technology Council Award

Sam Zaza, assistant professor in the MTSU Department of Information Systems and Analytics in the Jennings A. Jones College of Business, recently received a prestigious Nashville Technology Council Award as Diversity and Inclusion Advocate of the Year. “I feel honored and humbled to be recognized by the Greater Nashville Technology Council for my Diversity and…