Tennessee State Parks Host Tennessee Promise Service Events

Jun 15, 2022 at 08:00 am by WGNS

Tennessee State Parks will offer volunteer work events at 39 parks across the state on Saturday, June 25 for Tennessee Promise scholars to fulfill their community service hour.... Read More

Tennessee Awarded Grant To Improve Emergency Food System

Jun 15, 2022 at 07:00 am by WGNS

Tennesseans facing food insecurity will have improved access to nutritious foods thanks to a grant awarded to the Tennessee Department of Agriculture (TDA). The U.S. Departme.... Read More

Rutherford County Schools sweep rankings of best Midstate schools

Jun 14, 2022 at 07:54 pm by WGNS

Rutherford County Schools offer the top schools in elementary, middle and high in the Midstate area, according to the most recent rankings of schools released by Nashville Bus.... Read More

Quick Change Scam ends with Alleged Theft of $1,000

Jun 14, 2022 at 07:40 pm by WGNS

What appears to have been a quick-change scam ended with a Walmart customer allegedly stealing $1,000. The incident was reported at the Walmart on Old Fort Parkway late last.... Read More

Deceased man found in his SUV at the Walmart on Joe B. Jackson Parkway in Murfreesboro

Jun 14, 2022 at 06:48 pm by WGNS

Murfreesboro Police are investigating the death of a man after his body was located in the Walmart parking lot on Joe B Jackson Parkway at the intersection of Highway 231 Sout.... Read More

1,452,040 Reports of Online Child Exploitation and 123,790 Suspects Since 1998

Jun 14, 2022 at 02:42 pm by WGNS

MURFREESBORO – “We live in the age of technology, and our children are growing up in a world full of it,” stated Child Advocacy Center Community Education Co.... Read More

Urologist, Dr. James Payne on WGNS Tuesday morning

Jun 14, 2022 at 09:10 am by Producer

Dr. James Payne joined WGNS' host Scott Walker on air Tuesday morning to talk about common issues impacting men. The local Urologist, who treats patients at his practice Mid.... Read More

12 Men Charged in Undercover Sex Trafficking Operation

Jun 13, 2022 at 06:10 pm by WGNS

A two-day undercover operation this past week by Human Trafficking detectives with the Metro Nashville Police Department and the TBI, resulted in the arrests of te.... Read More

COMMENTARY: MTSU Journalism Professor looks into the Watergate Scandal 50-Years Ago

Jun 13, 2022 at 04:02 pm by WGNS

COMMENTARY: 50-Years-ago on June 17, 1972, five subjects broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel in Washington, D.C. With a look back.... Read More

Shipman joins Scales Elementary as Principal

Jun 13, 2022 at 12:39 pm by WGNS

(Murfreesboro, TN) Dr. Trey Duke, Director of Murfreesboro City Schools (MCS), is proud to announce the appointment of Ranesa Shipman as Principal for Scales Elementary School.... Read More

Gas Prices Up +14-Cents in Tennessee

Jun 13, 2022 at 11:17 am by WGNS

(Middle Tennessee) Average gasoline prices in Tennessee have risen 14.6 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $4.64/g today, according to GasBuddy's survey of 3,821 sta.... Read More

Guest Wayne "Big Buck" Buckingham, talking about a back to school, free school supply event

Jun 13, 2022 at 08:29 am by Producer

Listen to Podcast Above: A Bell Buckle resident who played basketball at Cascade High School in the late 1980’s and later went on to play college ball for Clemson Univer.... Read More

Monday - June 13, 2022 - Swap & Shop

Jun 13, 2022 at 08:12 am by Producer

Text Swap & Shop Items to WGNS Anytime at 615-893-1450! If you’d like to call during our “LIVE” program between 7:50AM and 8:10AM, call the same number y.... Read More

Arts Group Meets 5PM Tuesday at MTSU

Jun 11, 2022 at 10:16 am by WGNS

(MURFREESBORO)  The June Rutherford Arts Alliance meeting will be in MTSU’s Todd Art Gallery from 5:00 to 6:00PM on Tuesday afternoon, June 14, 2022. The gues.... Read More

$1-Million USDA Grant Helps Tennessee's Poor

Jun 11, 2022 at 08:49 am by WGNS

(TENNESSEE) The Volunteer State has received a $1-million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that will help supplement the diets of low-income Americans b.... Read More

Council approves Fiscal Year 2023 Budget on second reading; $247.1 million General Fund Budget for Fiscal Year 2022-23

Jun 09, 2022 at 06:08 pm by WGNS

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – The Murfreesboro City Council Wednesday (June 8) approved the City’s $247.1 million proposed Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) General Fund Budget.... Read More

Juneteenth Celebration Expands to Three Blocks - will be held June 16th - 18th

Jun 09, 2022 at 05:11 pm by WGNS

  MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Juneteenth, a holiday celebrating the emancipation of enslaved persons in the United States, will be observed in Murfreesboro with thr.... Read More

US Marshals Make Arrests In Shelbyville

Jun 09, 2022 at 02:13 pm by WGNS

(SHELBYVILLE, TN) In neighboring Shelbyville, TN on Tuesday (6/7/2022), members of the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office, Shelbyville Police Department, and the United S.... Read More

Shining physics scholar Lewis joins recent MTSU alumni pursuing research at Johns Hopkins

Jun 09, 2022 at 09:41 am by WGNS

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — There’s quite a growing trend of Middle Tennessee State University graduates pursuing graduate degrees at prestigious Johns Ho.... Read More

COMMENTARY: Edited Photos and Other Images in the Media - What are you REALLY Seeing?

Jun 08, 2022 at 05:15 pm by WGNS

COMMENTARY: Editing images and the pictures you see in magazines, on websites and in the news – what is real and what is considered okay and what is a no-no? With more,.... Read More