By Staff Writer Car accidents are not fun.That sentence may be an understatement, but the number of rear-end auto collisions across the country is not. According to figures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), out of the 6 million car accidents that happen on U.S. roads every year, over 40% of them (2.5 […]

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By Staff Writer This past Saturday (01/19/13), Jocelyn Gardiner, a student and track star from Tennessee State University, was killed in Nashville by a driver who ran a red light at a busy downtown intersection. Gardiner was originally from Texas, and planned to attend law school after graduation. The driver that killed her was drunk. […]

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By Staff Writer Driving is never safe. We’ve all heard that it’s much more likely to have a fatal car accident than a plane crash, getting struck by lightning, or getting bitten by a shark, but is this just a myth and what do the numbers actually say? A recent report by the Department of […]

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By Staff Writer On Monday, December 17, the U.S Center for Disease Control released new numbers that counted the death toll in Tennessee caused by the October meningitis outbreak at 14—including one in just the previous week. Tennessee continues to lead the country in deaths per state, with Michigan following close behind at 10. The […]

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By Staff Writer Thanks to a newly passed law, Tennessee residents will now be restricted on the amount of compensation they can receive from medical malpractice and personal injury lawsuits. In response to an onslaught of medical malpractice lawsuits being filed in Tennessee as a result of the recent fungal meningitis outbreak, the state’s Supreme […]

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