Fourteen people have died due to the wildfires in the Great Smoky Mountain region of Tennessee.
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Jim Hickman, a professional baseball outfielder who played for four teams during the 1960s and ‘70s, died June 25, 2016, according to multiple news sources. He was 79. Hickman’s death, …
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She coached the Lady Vols basketball team to eight NCAA championships.
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Wayne Jackson, the trumpet player and one-half of the legendary Memphis Horns that backed hit records by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, and others, died June 21, 2016.
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Blues artist influenced some of rock’s best guitarists…
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Nera White, one of the first female basketball players inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, has died at 90.
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Five people died Monday in the crash of a sightseeing helicopter on a wooded ridge near the tourist town of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration is …
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Fred Thompson, a Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee for eight years who also acted in feature films and on television, has died, his family says in a statement, according to …
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In 1960, one runner captivated the world at the Summer Olympics in Rome. She was La Gazzella Negra, the “Black Gazelle,” the fastest woman on Earth… She was Wilma Rudolph. …
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Bobby “Blue” Bland was known as “The Sinatra of the Blues”…