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Round 1
Imagine showing up for school bright and early and some jag-off has taken your favorite parking space.
I mean honestly… the nerve of some people.
Well that's sorta what happened at West Cheatham Elementary School when someone reported a helicopter had been parked in their lot overnight.
As it turns out, emergency responders had collected a patient and at some point it was discovered that the chopper's tail rotor was damaged by the gurney.
They opted to land in the middle school parking lot, transfer the patient to another medical helicopter and proceed with their emergency intervention.
So, by the time students started arriving, they got to see a real life helicopter up close and personal on their way into school.
Honestly, if I were a student at that school, that's all I'd be talking about the entire day!
Round 2
A Coffee County man is jailed, charged with 🍇 after his wife told investigators he had [sex] with her while she was sleeping, and when confronted, tried to tell her it was all just a dream [magic fingers].
According to a warrant quoted by The Tullahoma News, 31‑year‑old Benjamin Kyle Payne and his wife were already in divorce proceedings when the incident occurred earlier this month.
Apparently, Payne knew his wife was a heavy sleeper, and so he took advantage.
Payne ultimately admitted to having [sex] with her while she was sleeping and acknowledged he knew he shouldn't have done it, and Coffee County Sheriff’s Office booking records show he was arrested and charged with one count of 🍇 and booked on a $25,000 bond.
I just hope Mr. Payne doesn't wake in a lot of pain while "just dreaming" in his prison cell.
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Round 3
In a Truth Social post, President Trump says he spoke with Governor Bill Lee and that Lee “will work hard to correct the unconstitutional flaw in the Congressional Maps of the Great State of Tennessee,” adding that other GOP officials in the state have promised the same.
He says redoing the map “should give us one extra seat” and help “save our country from the Radical Left Democrats,” while blasting Democrats’ policies on taxes, borders, police, and more.
The push comes right after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s congressional map for using race in drawing a second majority‑Black district, a ruling that weakens part of the Voting Rights Act and has opened the door for mid‑decade district redraws.
Trump has been urging Republican‑led legislatures to redo their maps while the GOP holds a narrow U.S. House majority, and new maps favoring Republicans.
In Tennessee, Republicans already hold eight of nine U.S. House seats, but party leaders are now openly talking about going for a 9–0 map.
Senator Marsha Blackburn has urged lawmakers to reconvene and “redistrict another Republican seat in Memphis,” saying she wants to cement Trump’s agenda and keep Tennessee fully red, even as critics warn that carving up Memphis and other urban areas further would dilute Black and Democratic voting power.
That was your Tennessee news roundup.
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