Crane craze – Nashville reaches the legal limit of cranes

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Michael Guion, Reporter

December 10, 2019

NASHVILLE, Tenn – If you've been downtown in the last decade, it's most likely you've noticed the cranes filling the skyline. Ten years ago, cranes represented the ongoing expansion and renovation of Nashville. Now they represent growth that is uncontrolled and new homes that are pushing out long-time...

Preview of Blue Cross Bowl

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – West Parker, Writer

December 9, 2019

BlueCross Bowl to be held Dec. 5-7 in Cookeville December 2, 2019 The stage is set for the 2019 BlueCross Bowl in Cookeville. Eighteen teams will meet over Dec. 5-7 at Tennessee Tech's Tucker Stadium to decide state championships in each for nine classes. Visit TSSAAsports.com for a full schedule, advanced tickets, spectat...

MLK/Pearl Cohn’s David Wesley Schilling is the 76th winner of the Hume Award.

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – HIllsboro Sports Desk, Mike Strasinger - Photographer

December 3, 2019

The 76th winner of Metro Nashville Public School's prestigious Hume Award was named today at a luncheon hosted by the Rotary Club at The Wildhorse Saloon in Downtown Nashville. The award was won by David Wesley Schilling, the long-snapper from Pearl-Cohn High School. Schilling attends MLK, Jr Magnet Sc...

Lawmaker seeks to rename building honoring Nobel winner

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Hillsboro News Desk

November 25, 2019

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It is hard to drive anywhere in Nashville without seeing an historical marker honoring a moment in Tennessee history. Buildings, too, in the city are named after famous Tennesseans. Unfortunately, it often comes to our attention only when a controversy is stirred up by two ...

Dire situation for the Kurds in Syria and Turkey: One point of view from Nashville teen

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – West Parker, Writer

November 18, 2019

NASHVILLE, Tn – The United States military withdrawal recently from the border of Turkey combined with the Turkish aggression in Syria worry's many Nashville Kurds of a potential genocide of those who still have relatives in the area known as Nashville Kurds are anxious  that a genocide or g...

Longtime sports writer Maurice Patton honored for distinguished service

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Courtesy of TSSAA

October 23, 2019

From TSSAA October News... October 22, 2019 NASHVILLE, TN–There are no dusty trophies or faded letterman’s jackets that Maurice ‘Mo’ Patton points to as foundation in his sportswriting career spanning four decades. Rather, Patton’s approach emanates from a passion for sport...

Maurice Hill, a Philadelphia gunman with a long criminal history, wounded six police officers that led to a seven hour standoff

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Sam Levy, Editor

August 28, 2019

PHILADELPHIA  — On August 15th, 2019, shots rang out at around 5:00 in the afternoon in Tioga-Nicetown, Pennsylvania.  The criminal history of a man suspected of barricading himself inside a Philadelphia row home should have prevented him from legally owning the firepower he used Wednesday to wound...

Music City USA and the National Football League announce the entertainment line-up for NFL Draft

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – AP Reports

March 25, 2019

UPDATED APRIL 25, 2019 1:18 PM NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The stars of the gridiron will meet the stars of Music City when the NFL Draft comes to Nashville, Tennessee, in April. The NFL announced Monday that Grammy-winning country star Tim McGraw will perform a free outdoor concert on April 26 and Gra...

News: Local, State, National and International

January 29, 2019

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Government Shutdown

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Brayden Smith, reporter

January 25, 2019

The United States Federal Government just concluded a 36 day partial shutdown, the longest in U.S. history. It has been reported by Associated Press that 8 billion dollars in revenue was lost during the shutdown and nearly half of that will be unrecoverable. President Trump signed a temporary bill that...

Iconic Nashville hot chicken restaurant closed due to fire

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Associated Press Reports

December 31, 2018

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A famous Nashville hot chicken restaurant is closed "indefinitely" after a hit-and-run driver crashed into a strip mall, starting a fire that damaged several businesses. News outlets report that the main location of Prince's Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville is closed because of the...

The Music City Bowl sets more records in the 19th edition of Nashville’s New Year’s Eve tradition.

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Terrianna Carter, Ashja Murchison and Hillsboro Globe Sports Desk

December 30, 2018

MCB Box Score Link Photo Galleries Link     NASHVILLE, Tenn.  - Auburn won the coin toss, elected to receive and never looked back in a 63-14 win over Purdue at the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl on Friday. The Tigers outgunned the Boilermakers 586-263 in total offense and . punted only once the entire game. They scored the...