TN Progressive

• Good News Friday (Southern Beale)
• Barack Obama's 1979 Prom Photos (TN Guerilla Women)
• New Laws Finally Target Sex Trafficking in Tennessee (Joe Powell)
• The Kingston Ladd Landing Greenway...Some Information and Opinion (RoaneViews)
• Emory River Paper Mill Site To Get Superfund Cleanup (RoaneViews)
• RECOGNIZING A STROKE (RoaneViews)
• TN Cong. Fincher Takes Millions in Subsidies, Cuts Food Stamps, Makes TN National News Again (RoaneViews)
• Tennessee Education Reform Ignores Models of Success (Joe Powell)
• Let The Churches Deal With Them (Southern Beale)
• Tornado Victim Reunited with Dog in Rubble on Live TV (Video) (TN Guerilla Women)
• Ellen Eviserates Abercrombie & Fitch CEO's Comments on Plus Size Women (Video) (TN Guerilla Women)
• Overwheming Bi-Partisanship As Congress Stands Tall For Freedom...To Fish? (RoaneViews)
• Psycho Michele Bachmann: God is Going to Repeal Obamacare (TN Guerilla Women)
• Justice Department Seized Fox News & White House Phone Records (TN Guerilla Women)
• The Horrible Punishment Heaped Upon Tea Party Groups by the IRS (Kitchen Table)
• Rep. Fincher Joins TNGOP’s Starving Children Club (Southern Beale)

TN Politics

• The Hippodrome: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do (Pith in the Wind)
• War on attrition (Post Politics)
• Seventh in line (Post Politics)
• Dick Barry dies (Post Politics)
• My Maser Challenge to The Tennessean (Pith in the Wind)
• DesJarlais Fined $500 for Having Sex With Patients (Tom Humphrey)
• 'Fantastic Moment' -- TN Gets a Royal Visitor (Tom Humphrey)
• Quote of the Day: Emily Evans on the Music City Center (Pith in the Wind)
• Former House Speaker Dick Barry Dies, Age 89 (Tom Humphrey)
• DesJarlais pays up (Post Politics)
• Keeping them in business (Post Politics)
• Will Nashville Hit the Road? (Pith in the Wind)

Local Media Blogs

• Local leaders turn out for bocce ball (Mike Donila)
• Gotta beef up the bike lanes, Knoxville, if you want to make this list (Gerald Witt)
• The Weekend Plan-It: Memorial Day Edition (Metro Pulse)
• Friday briefing (Josh Flory)
• Where Am I? Vol. XVI (Gerald Witt)
• Prosecutors move to drop criminal case against Mike Ross (Josh Flory)
• Music From This Week's Issue: May 23 Best of Knoxville Edition (Metro Pulse)
• City Council gets it done quietly (Mike Donila)
• The Daily Plan-It: Shopping at the Farm, Zumba, and Best of Knoxville PARTY!!! (Metro Pulse)
• Thursday briefing (Josh Flory)
• On Bearden – some extras (Gerald Witt)
• Millions of public dollars … and tumbleweed (Gerald Witt)

Local Paper

• Destination Imagination competitors descend on Knoxville from across the globe (KNS News)
• Four arrested in conjunction with Benchmark Capital investigation (KNS News)
• Homeless man taken to hospital with cuts to head, face after fight (KNS News)
• Knox man arrested for violating sex offender registry (KNS News)
• Ex-Bean Station officer charged with murder in pharmacy robbery, shooting (KNS News)
• News Sentinel raises single-copy price (KNS Business)
• Carly Harrington: Businesses pledge support to breastfeeding moms (KNS Business)
• Knox County jobless rate rises in April (KNS Business)
• Vote on Farragut hotel tax canceled (KNS Business)
• Xinergy shareholders say 'no' to CEO stock options (KNS Business)

Local TV News

• Codes enforcement sweep aims to clean up Knoxville neighborhoods (WATE)
• Shooter charged in Bean Station incident that killed two and injured two others (WATE)
• 4 arrested, indicted for fraud in investment scheme that targeted the elderly (WATE)
• Lawson McGhee Library closed downtown for repairs (WATE)
• Son remembers father killed in Bean Station shooting (WBIR)
• Former officer charged in pharmacy shooting that killed 2, injured 2 (WBIR)
• Knoxville man killed in single vehicle crash (WBIR)
• 4 more charged in alleged Benchmark Capital investment fraud (WBIR)
• Man dies in South Knoxville car crash (WATE)
• THP stepping up DUI enforcement over holiday (WBIR)
• Crimetracker: Neighbors react to Bean Station shooting (WVLT)
• Hobby Loby wants health care exemption (WVLT)

State News

• Rare Superman comic found in house insulation (Times Free Press)
• Tennessee man says microwave technology can stop tornadoes (Times Free Press)
• Newby's Delivers Needed Supplies to Tornado Victims (ABC24 Memphis)
• Wade Hinton named Chattanooga city attorney (Times Free Press)
• Emails show concern for Michael Jackson deterioration (Times Free Press)
• Top 5 things to know in the Chattanooga area today (Times Free Press)
• Woman Killed in Orange Mound Domestic Shooting (ABC24 Memphis)
• Metro Councilwoman Karen Johnson accused of unethical conduct (Tennessean)
• Plea deals reached in 2011 hit and run near Music Row Roundabout (Tennessean)
• Hartsville Pike crash siblings will be buried side by side today (Tennessean)
• Brentwood child told officers after mother slain, 'Daddy gone!' (Tennessean)
• UPDATE: Roads unaffected after East Nashville main break (Tennessean)

Wire Reports

• News Corp's publishing business to initiate stock buyback (Yahoo Business)
• Police in Australia issue warning on 3-D printed gun (Yahoo News)
• Wall St. drops on uncertainty about Fed stimulus (Yahoo Business)
• Senator urges 'extreme caution' on Softbank-Sprint deal (Yahoo Business)
• Obama tells Naval Academy grads sexual assaults threaten military (Yahoo Politics)
• Durable goods orders point to factory resilience (Yahoo Business)
• Insight: Luxury brands position for U.S. boom (Yahoo Business)
• Cop arrested on suspicion of firebombing police captain’s house (Yahoo News)
• Truck crash may have caused Washington state bridge collapse (Yahoo News)
• Tornado insured losses estimated at $2 billion-$5 billion (Yahoo News)
• Terry McAuliffe’s brother was once an abortion-clinic-protesting conservative activist. Now he’s a Democrat (Yahoo Politics)
• Magnitude 5.7 quake strikes Northern California (Yahoo News)
• Obama, all but declaring V-T (Victory Over Terror) Day, hits reset button on national security with drone and Guantanamo speech (Yahoo Politics)
• Amid heckling, Obama defends drone strikes, vows to close Guantanamo (Yahoo Politics)
• Code Pink activist Medea Benjamin heckles Obama (Yahoo Politics)

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