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The Student News Site of Hillsboro High School

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The Student News Site of Hillsboro High School

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William Kennemer, standing, gets ready to go back outside at The Salvation Army on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019, in Chattanooga, Tenn. As part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service, the Southern Adventist University hosted a Street Store that allowed people needing free clothes to come and shop by browsing items hung up around The Salvation Army property. Students acted as personal shoppers helping those in need pick out clothing. Food and music was also provided inside. (C.B. Schmelter/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP)

Tennessee resolution praises King, denounces racism

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – AP News Now January 23, 2019

Click Here to Read Full Text of Clemmons's Resolution NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A civil rights leader gave an impassioned speech in front of thousands as he urged Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee and...

Questar to bid for new testing contract with Tennessee

Questar to bid for new testing contract with Tennessee

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Associated Press Reports January 7, 2019

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The company that administers Tennessee's problem-plagued student assessment testing program says it still plans on throwing its hat in the ring to secure a new state contract so they...

Trispot Darter fish found in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia is to be named to Endangered Species List

Trispot Darter fish found in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia is to be named to Endangered Species List

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Associated Press Reports December 31, 2018

ANNISTON, Ala. (AP) — Federal officials are putting a fish whose habitat is threatened by development in southern states on the endangered species list. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is adding...

Funeral set for Lebanon High grad adds to 2018 Wilson County teen shooting deaths

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Jeremy Durard, Sports December 28, 2018

Services are scheduled Friday for a 2018 Lebanon High School graduate and member of College Hills Church of Christ who died after he was shot on Sunday, according to police. Cameron Sean Luke Griffith,...

Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., watches election returns in her race for the U.S. Senate with former Gov. Phil Bredesen Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Franklin, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Tennessee Election Results

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Associated Press Reports November 7, 2018

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn won a grueling, expensive contest Tuesday to become the first female U.S. senator from Tennessee, keeping a key midterm seat under GOP control. The...

Dems gain in quest for House control but GOP retains Senate

Dems gain in quest for House control but GOP retains Senate

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Associated Press Reports November 7, 2018

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats were gaining significant ground in the battle for House control Tuesday night, while Republicans held their Senate majority as voters rendered a mixed verdict in the first...

2018 Election Central

2018 Election Central

November 7, 2018

National and State Results Highlights from State Election Results from 2018 as of 1:03 am local time U.S. Senate Class I 1,917 of 1,969 precincts - 97 percent Marsha Blackburn, GOP 1,198,410 - 54...

Early voting nears 350,000 ballots in Tennessee election

Early voting nears 350,000 ballots in Tennessee election

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Associated Press Reports, Hillsboro Globe News Desk, and October 22, 2018

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennesseans are voting in record numbers with close to 350,000 ballots cast in the first three days of early voting. According to vote totals on the Secretary of State's website...

Teen accused of threatening school shooting on social media

Teen accused of threatening school shooting on social media

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Jeremy Durard, Sports September 18, 2018

STRAWBERRY PLAINS, Tenn. — Tennessee authorities say a 13-year-old student has been arrested for sharing a post online that said the student intended to carry out a school shooting. Strawberry Plains...

A.J. Johnson, left, and Michael Williams hug after a jury acquitted them of aggravated rape charges Friday, July 27, 2018, in Knoxville, Tenn. Johnson and Williams were indicted on February 2015 after a woman said both men raped her during a party at Johnsons apartment in the early morning hours of Nov. 16, 2014. Johnson and Williams were suspended from the Tennessee football team less than 48 hours after the party and never played for Tennessee again. (Michael Patrick/Knoxville News Sentinel via AP)

Jurors acquit ex-Tennessee football players in rape trial

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – By STEVE MEGARGEE, AP Sports Writer July 29, 2018

Jul 27, 2018 7:53PM  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Two former University of Tennessee football players were acquitted Friday of the aggravated rape charges they had been indicted on nearly 3 ½...

Tennessee Primary Elections - A look at the state races

Tennessee Primary Elections – A look at the state races

July 29, 2018

The Tennessee primaries take place Aug. 2. Voters are picking who will represent their party in races for one Senate seat, currently held by a Republican, and nine House seats, two of which are held...

States top courts begin hearing cases over open gun carry laws at school events

State’s top courts begin hearing cases over open gun carry laws at school events

Hillsboro Globe Reporter – Ethan Freeman, Reporter April 10, 2018

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — A gun openly carried by a spectator at a high school concert in 2015 has turned into a major legal case as the Michigan Supreme Court considers whether the state's public schools...

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