LOUISVILLE, KY — Thorntons is proud to announce the opening of its newest Tennessee Store—and first in La Vergne. The store will open Friday, May 20 at 6:00 a.m. and is located at 559 Waldron Road, La Vergne, TN. The company now operates a total of 18 stores in Tennessee. This new pump and go location is a 5,500 square foot store that sits on 4.8 acres. It features a number of amenities to serve our on-the-go Guests including: • Self-checkout to drive a faster and more efficient Guest experience • LED lighting for Guest and Team Member safety and…
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NASHVILLE, TN — Nashville General Hospital is pleased to announce that Kevin Billups, MD is expanding his practice to bring a Men’s Health Center and the 90-day Men’s Health Challenge, a lifestyle program, to Nashville Healthcare Center Midtown. Dr. Billups is a Johns Hopkins-trained urologist and an expert in men’s health. He completed fellowship training in sexual medicine, male infertility, and vascular biology at the University of Virginia. Dr. Billups is a professor of medicine at Meharry Medical College. Dr. Billups focuses on preventive care for men by addressing the four main medical causes of men’s health issues, including blood…
LOUISVILLE, KY — Kelsey Montague’s art has been featured in Taylor Swift’s music videos, celebrity Instagrams, and murals across the country. Now, it’s coming to Louisville in a new temporary exhibit at the Muhammad Ali Center. Montague’s five new works will be debuted to the public for the first time at the exhibit’s grand opening on Wednesday, May 11. Montague’s artwork explores how public art, interactive art, and social media intersect. Each wall of the Muhammad Ali Center’s Ina Brown Bond Gallery will exhibit one of Kelsey’s original mural pieces inspired by Muhammad Ali. Fans may recognize her famous…
For African American women, type 2 diabetes is a leading cause of serious health problems and death. Many African American women living with type 2 diabetes feel that healthier eating is the hardest part of type 2 diabetes self-care and also report low motivation to make changes in their diet. Diabetes medical nutrition therapy is a widely used treatment that provides diabetes patients with an individually tailored nutrition plan and nutritional counseling services. Existing treatment delivery methods have not been very effective in helping African American women eat healthier and improve their diabetes health. Dr. Stephania Miller-Hughes’, a professor at…
Welcome to special coverage of Tuesday’s North Carolina, Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Idaho primaries from Post Politics Now. Scandal-plagued Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) has lost in the Republican primary to state Sen. Chuck Edwards, who had the backing of establishment Republicans. GOP leaders in the state, including Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), had grown tired of Cawthorn, who was chastised for questionable statements about invitations to an “orgy” and cocaine use by senior Republicans, traffic violations and weapons offenses. In the campaign’s closing days, Cawthorn did get the endorsement of former president Donald Trump, but it wasn’t enough. In Pennsylvania, Lt.…
Knoxville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–Bailey Davis, a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Tennessee has qualified to play in the 77th U.S. Women’s Open on June 2-5 in Pinehurst, NC. Golf fans who follow collegiate tournaments will probably recall Bailey’s outstanding performance at last year’s USGA Girls Junior Championship. There she made it to the finals and was on the brink of becoming the first Black woman to win a USGA championship. However, lost the event to the #1 ranked women’s amateur in the world. Bailey flew home to the District of Columbia, Maryland just to play in the U.S. Women’s Open qualifier at Belle Haven Country…
The highest ranking Republican official in U.S. government, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, repeatedly refused to denounce “replacement theory” in a press conference Tuesday afternoon. That puts him in company with New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, the third in command among House Republicans who seems to be an adherent of the white nationalist conspiracy theory. The slaughter of 10 Black Americans in Buffalo by a white nationalist terrorist and the reaction to that carnage clarifies a whole hell of a lot about the Republican Party of 2022 and the individual members of it. Especially McConnell, who controls half of the…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (TN Tribune) — MTSU’s new Physician Assistant Studies, or PA, graduate program has been a decade in the making, and the university marked the occasion with a grand opening event last Friday. “It was an opportunity to make people aware of our existence and who we are since a lot of the work was done during COVID and people may not be aware,” said Marie Patterson, the program’s director. “It was also a way for us to showcase our students and our innovative equipment.” Held in the lobby of the Cason Kennedy Nursing Building on campus, the celebration…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (TN Tribune) — Recent MTSU graduates Corwin Cordell and Jalen Ervin received their commissions as U.S. Air Force second lieutenants during a special ceremony for Air Force ROTC Detachment 790, held Saturday, May 14, at the Veterans Memorial outside the Tom H. Jackson Building. The event was sponsored for the second year by the Middle Tennessee State University Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center. Detachment 790, with a long history of being housed in Kean Hall at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee, includes students from MTSU, TSU and other Midstate and southern Kentucky colleges…
Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune)–Crye-Leike Real Estate Services announced Addy Biggers has been named the managing broker of its Brentwood branch office. Biggers will be responsible for the recruitment, training and management of the office’s sales associates.Biggers earned her real estate license three years ago and began working with Post & Company in 2020. In February 2022, Crye-Leike acquired Post & Co, welcoming Biggers and the rest of the team to the Brentwood office. Prior to serving clients in the real estate industry, Biggers spent many years in executive-level healthcare positions, supporting the growth of the companies and teams that she…