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One person was killed after severe thunderstorms ripped through the Middle Tennessee region on Wednesday, triggering a “violent” tornado to touch down in Maury County, according to weather officials.
The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a tornado emergency—the service’s highest alert level—for Maury, Williamson and Rutherford counties just before 6 p.m. CDT, according to The Tennessean. NWS Nashville’s office shortly afterward posted to X, formerly Twitter, that a “large, violent” tornado was “on the ground” near Spring Hill, roughly 36 miles south of Nashville.
Officials with the Maury Country Regional Hospital confirmed to local news outlets that at least one person died from storm-related injuries. Three other individuals suffered non-life-threatening injuries and another was in serious condition, according to reports from The Tennessean and WKRN.
Additional information about the death was not immediately available. Newsweek reached out to the Maury County Regional Hospital via email for additional information on Wednesday night.
Tornado watches were issued for six states ahead of Wednesday’s storms into early Thursday morning by NWS. Weather officials said that preliminary assessments found that a EF-2 tornado touched down in Hot Springs, Arkansas, just after 12:30 a.m. CDT Wednesday, according to KARK.
A tornado emergency was also issued for parts of Michigan on Tuesday evening—a first for the Great Lakes State—as severe storms ripped through portions of Michigan as well as Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri.
Property damage and scattered debris were reported in the area by the Maury County Office of Emergency Management, which in a series of posts to Facebook also urged residents to stay home and off the roadways while the tornado tore through the county. Video of the twister was also captured by a station camera with the Tennessee Valley Weather group, which was shared to X by radar analyst Bryan Wilson.
WE JUST CAPTURED A LARGE WEDGE ON OUR STATION 3 LIVE CAM IN COLUMBIA; A TORNADO EMERGENCY IS IN EFFECT WITH THIS CELL. TAKE SHELTER NOW! #tnwx pic.twitter.com/QHRZV6UGII
— 📡 Bryan Wilson 📡 (@DualDoppler) May 8, 2024
Threats of high winds, hail and flooding are expected to continue into early Thursday morning for parts of Middle Tennessee. A flash-food emergency was also issued north of Nashville in Sumner and Robertson counties. The NWS said in a weather alert that water rescues in those areas were ongoing and that the flooding was life-threatening.
Storm-related damage was also reported in parts of North Carolina on Wednesday evening. According to USA Today’s power outage tracker, as of 8 p.m. CDT, over 100,000 people were left without power across the state after the storms. Over 31,000 outages were reported across Tennessee at the time of publication.
Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground.
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The Tennessee Vols are working to get into the mix for one of the most coveted guards in the NCAA transfer portal. Rick Barnes and the Vols are continuing to look for ways to upgrade the roster.
Rick Barnes and the Tennessee Vols are shooting their shot with one of the top guards in the NCAA transfer portal.
According to a report from VolQuest, the Vols held an in-home visit with Wake Forest Demon Deacons transfer guard Juke Harris on Sunday evening.
Harris, 6-foot-7/200 pounds from Salisbury, NC, averaged 21.4 points per game as a sophomore for the Demon Deacons this past season.
The North Carolina native was recruited by Tennessee before he eventually landed with Wake Forest out of high school.
Harris would fill the go-to scorer role that Vols head coach Rick Barnes knows he needs.
Several other notable programs, however, are also very much in the mix for Harris, including the Michigan Wolverines.
Harris visited Michigan over the weekend.
The Wake Forest transfer, though, is already familiar with Barnes and the Vols after being recruited out of high school by Tennessee.
Harris, in fact, was on a recruiting visit to Tennessee in 2022 when the Vols knocked off Alabama in Neyland Stadium.
“The most memorable part of the visit was when we all rushed the field after the game,” said Harris to On3 after his official visit to UT for the Bama game in 2022. “So many Tennessee fans were saying my name and stopping their celebration to tell me they wanted me to commit. That made me feel super welcomed.”
The existing relationship with Harris should help the Vols in their pursuit of the talented guard. But if Tennessee is going to land Harris, they’ll likely need to be the top bidder for his services.
Harris is also going through the NBA Draft process, so there’s no guarantee that he’ll spend another season in college.

Tennessee basketball is finalizing a deal to hire former Boston College head coach Earl Grant as an assistant coach, Volquest’s Mike Wilson first reported and a source confirmed to RTI on Sunday night.
Grant fills the void on Tennessee’s coaching staff left by Justin Gainey’s departure to be the new NC State head coach earlier this offseason. It’s unclear whether Grant will have the “associate head coach” title that Gainey had before his departure.
The 49-year old spent the last five years as the head coach at Boston College with the Eagles firing him following an 11-20 campaign this past season. Grant failed to make the NCAA Tournament in his five years at Boston College and posted a 72-92 record over that stretch.
Boston College is widely considered one of the worst jobs in power five basketball due to the lack of resources and the school’s commitment to hockey.
Prior to his time at Boston College, Grant spent seven years as the head coach at College of Charleston. Grant led the Cougars to the 2018 NCAA Tournament, earning a 13-seed and nearly upsetting four-seed Auburn in the opening round of the tournament.
In Grant’s seven years leading the College of Charleston program, the Cougars posted a 127-89 record. Despite inheriting a program that won just 14 games the year before he arrived, College of Charleston won 24-plus games in three of his seven seasons as head coach.
A Charleston, South Carolina native, Grant has been an assistant coach at The Citadel, Winthrop, Wichita State and Clemson.
While Gainey had extensive ties to the state of North Carolina, Grant has extensive ties to the state of South Carolina.
Rick Barnes’ staff currently includes assistant coaches Steve McClain, Amorrow Morgan, Gregg Polinsky, Bryan Lentz and Grant.
Support staffers includes Director of Basketball Operations Mary Carter-Eggert, Director of Men’s Basketball Sports Performance Garrett Medenwald, Director of Player Personnel/Recruiting Coordinator Lucas Campbell, Director of Video and Analytics Luke Schapker, Director of Strategy Scott Daughtry, Player Development Coordinator Justin Caldwell and graduate assistant Colin Coyne.
SWEETWATER, Tenn. — Devon Dobie traded the lead twice with the defending Hoosier Racing Tire United Sprint Car Series Presented By XC Gear National Champion Dale Howard to win Night 2 of the North vs. South Shootout at I-75 Raceway on Saturday night.
The event was co-sanctioned by United Sprint Car Series and the Great Lakes Sprint Car Series.
Dobie led the first five laps of the 30-lap feature race, but Howard grabbed the lead on a lap six restart. Dobie was able to wrestle the lead back from Howard in lapped traffic on lap 18 to lead back the rest of the way. Chase Dunham of Leipsic, OH finished second and Howard, who was the Friday night winner, took the third spot.
Ryan Turner started 10th and finished fourth, while Jac Nickles was fifth.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 23 Devon Dobie, Wapakoneta, OH (1); 2. 66 Chase Dunham, Leipsic, OH (5); 3. 47 Dale Howard, Byhalia, MS (2); 4. 15 Ryan Turner, Dunnville, ON CAN (10); 5. 31 Jac Nickles, Harrod, OH (4); 6. 13 Van Gurley Jr., Valparaiso, IN (11); 7. 10m Morgan Turpen-Havener, Gallatin, TN (3); 8. 6 Ryan Coniam, Burlington, ON CAN (6); 9. 16 Ryan Ruhl, Coldwater, MI (8); 10. 48 Coen McDaniel, Gaffney, SC (13); 11. 71h Max Stambaugh, Lima, OH (12); 12. 20i Kelsey Ivy, Fremont, OH (7); 13. 9 Tyler Blankenship, Bakersfield, CA (18); 14. 24 Kobe Allison, Lima, OH (14); 15. 23m Lance Moss, Cherryville, NC (15); 16. 87xs Skyler Evans, Scotland, ON CAN (17); 17. 22 Aaron Shaffer, Tekonsha, MI (23); 18. 12 Corbin Gurley, Hebron, IN (22); 19. 00 P.J. Reutimann, Zephyrhills, FL (19); 20. 19w Jackson Wellman, Belmont, NC (21); 21. 28 Jeff Willingham, Ripley, MS (20); 22. 10 Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN (16); 23. 94 Hayden Wise, Huntersville, NC (9); 24. 11h Caleb Harmon, Elida, OH DNS.
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