By Staff Writer Eastman Chemical Co., a major chemical manufacturer headquartered in Kingsport, is being sued by West Virginia store owners and residents who were affected by the disastrous Elk River spill earlier this month. According to the plaintiffs, the $9 billion Tennessee-based engineering company hid scientific data on the cancer-causing and toxic components in […]

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By Staff Writer Tennessee officials have filed a $10 million claim in the bankruptcy case of New England Compounding Center (NECC), a Massachusetts drug compounding firm, for the deaths of 16 patients who received fungal meningitis caused by tainted spinal steroids, according to The Tennessean. The claim was filed this week in Boston’s U.S. Bankruptcy […]

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By Staff Writer Let’s go back to the 1970s for a minute. During this time, Tennessee state lawmakers were toying with idea of requiring everyone to have insurance before they could buy their license plates, but insurance companies contested the idea strongly. As a result, the law that was passed did require everyone to have […]

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By Staff Writer This past Friday (Jan. 3), a tractor trailer crash shut down all southbound lanes on I-75 just north of Knox County, when a semi broadsided an abandoned Nissan Pathfinder on the side of the road and crashed into several trees. The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) reported that the wreck happened right around […]

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