Recent black bear attacks in Colorado and Alaska have prompted some concern about bears in the Smoky Mountains. The incident in Colorado involved a bear attacking a camp staffer while he was sleeping. Bill Stiver, a supervisory wildlife biologist in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, said similar attacks have happened in East Tennessee. He…
A security researcher says a lapse has exposed data from millions of Verizon customers, leaking names, addresses and personal identification numbers, or PINs. Verizon Wireless says 6 million customers were affected, but the company says that none of the information made it into the wrong hands. The company says the only person who got access…
Police are searching for the driver who hit an 8-year-old boy in a Smyrna neighborhood Sunday evening and did not stop. According to Joe Eagles, his son Jonah and the boy’s brother were getting ice cream at an ice cream truck along Hermitage Drive around 6:40 p.m. Sunday when Jonah was hit. “[Jonah] had walked…
An attempted homicide suspect is wanted after Metro police say he evaded arrest Tuesday afternoon in Donelson. Tommie Bowie, 26, is accused of physically assaulting his girlfriend on July 9 and firing at least one shot toward her. According to authorities, he was riding in a car on Briley Parkway near McGavock Pike when the…
A driver who ran out of gas on Interstate 24 in Murfreesboro was hit and killed as he walked to get help. It happened just before 4 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of I-24 near Medical Center Parkway. The Tennessee Highway Patrol told News 2 the man and a woman were driving on the interstate…
A recent statewide survey of Tennessee consumers by MTSU’s Office of Consumer Research shows that the Nashville Predators have made gains in fan support after their run to the Stanley Cup Finals in June. “While football might still be king in the South, the recent Stanley Cup playoff run by the Nashville Predators has…
Murfreesboro Fire Rescue Department Engineer Kenneth Richmond and Firefighter Wayne Reed worked their final shift together on Friday, July 7, at Station 5 on Florence Road. Their years of service total seventy-one (71). Engineer Richmond came on the job in 1985 and sites the reason he has enjoyed his career is helping people as…
Middle Tennessee State University hosted a picnic Tuesday for a delegation of schoolchildren, teachers and administrators from China’s Dongcheng Educational Group. The group’s visit this week is the sixth cultural exchange in a series of reciprocal visits between the institutions. MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee and first lady Elizabeth McPhee hosted the picnic Tuesday morning for the guests on…
Anywhere from 100 to 200 people rallied to support Muslims across Middle Tennessee after a mosque was vandalized. The vandals spray curse words and intolerant phrases on the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro and left bacon on the front entrance, both in the doorway and around the door’s handles. There’s a prohibition on eating pork in…
The man accused of hitting a bicyclist and leaving the scene on the Natchez Trace Parkway is telling his version of what happened. Marshall Neely spoke with News 2 via phone Monday afternoon, claiming, “I did not see the gentleman that I hit. He just kind of came from nowhere. I didn’t know I hit…