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David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland school shooting and co-founder of March for Our Lives, will be the keynote speaker at Cal Poly’s annual Student Leadership Institute conference on Friday. The theme of this year’s one-day conference is “Amplify the Voices of All Leaders,” and it is open to students only. It will be held from 12 to 6:30 p.m. in the campus’ multi-activity center in the Recreation Center. “The Student Leadership Institute will bring students from a variety of experience levels together to learn from each other and explore topics that are rich and relevant to our...

The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) has been investigating the killings of Murdaugh's wife, Maggie, 52, and son Paul, 22, who were fatally shot outside the family's [1,772 acre] Islandton, S.C., home in June 2021. The double homicide, which has rocked the small rural community in the state's southern Lowcountry, was even more striking because of the Murdaugh family's prominent status in South Carolina, where three generations of Murdaughs once served as elected prosecutors for 87 consecutive years.

VIDEOSo many Russian generals have been killed in Ukraine that Vladimir Putin has been forced to appoint General Artie Lange to lead the Russian forces there.

Putin has called an obese general out of retirement to take command of forces in Ukraine after yet another round of purges of top commanders has left him 'scraping the barrel'. The 20 stone General Pavel, 67, has been summoned from his comfortable life in the Moscow suburbs and told to don his specially-made army fatigues and go to the front lines of eastern Ukraine. He will now take charge of Russian special forces operating in the region after the unit's former commander was seriously injured in an artillery strike. A veteran of the Soviet Union's ill-fated invasion of Afghanistan...

Major shakeups are underway in the Russian command structure in Ukraine, according to a report from the Institute for the Study of War Experts found that top officials may be blamed for not fully capturing Ukraine and the Kremlin may replace those officers with new faces Russia has suffered significant losses since the invasion of Ukraine began almost four months ago, including a dozen high ranking generals The Kremlin recently replaced the commander of the Russian Airborne forces and could be in the process of a major shakeup of their current command structure in Ukraine, according to a new report...

Republican Wyoming Sen. Majority Leader Ogden Driskill says he does not intend to endorse GOP Rep. Liz Cheney or her Republican challenger in the upcoming primary race, The Daily Wire has learned. “I’ll be in a race of my own that’s difficult,” Driskill told The Daily Wire in an interview. “I’ve been known for doing endorsements. At this point, I’m just focused on what my future is. I’m sitting on the sidelines and just going to watch the other races go on.” Driskill, who said he supports “most of” former President Donald Trump’s policies since they were “good for business,”...

Maryland is hoping a financial shot in the arm will entice state residents to get a COVID-19 booster. A $2 million lottery would be split between 12 randomly selected adults who had received an additional dose, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Tuesday. Half a million dollars would be awarded to a boosted adult on Feb. 15, followed by ten weekly $50,000 prizes, the Republican said. The one million dollar haul would then be handed out at the end of the promotion.

I was prepared to really hate this movie. But I didn’t. I was ready to leave the theater with a big, cornbread-flavored chip on my shoulder, huffing about unfair representations of white Southerners. Instead, I left a little homesick. I was prepared to be saddened by what I was sure would be a blight on the good name of the Dukes of Hazzard County. Instead, I found myself once again marveling at the Hemi-charged flight of the General Lee. Perhaps it’s because my expectations were so low that I was able to enjoy this movie, but I think it was...

Federal agents could have missed important clues in the investigation of Capitol Hill Corruption. But our NewsChannel 5 investigation uncovered some of those clues inside former chairman John Ford's desk on the Senate floor. And it's raising even more questions about what else agents might have missed. Our chief investigative reporter Phil Williams went looking where investigators did not go. It was a dramatic day back in May. Five current or former lawmakers were rounded up in a public corruption sting -- all part of the FBI's Operation Tennessee Waltz. Yet, despite images of agents roaming the halls of the...

For months now, under a veil of secrecy on the country backroads north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the General Lee, with its rooftop confederate flag, has been pedal to the metal, taking jumps and zooming past movie cameras. You've seen Smokey and the Bandit, you've seen The Blues Brothers, now wait until you see the cop-evading action they're cooking-up for The Dukes of Hazzard. The crew has one goal in mind: to make this a high-speed, rally-racing, drift-driving, dirt and dust tour de force. IGN FilmForce visited the set last week, and we're gearing up to deliver you guys the...

Naifeh's bitches We need some way to immortalize the 11 state House Republicans who voted to continue the income tax regime in power for another two years by voting for Democrat Speaker Jimmy Naifeh instead of the Republican candidate. In the venacular of the current rap music scene I suppose they would be characterized as Jimmy's Butt Boys. Or Naifeh's Bitches. But that's not very dignified and is awkward in mixed company. Perhaps we ought to look back at history. We have had in the past a group I have refered to as the Track Shoe Caucus. These were Republican...

<p>House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh yesterday stripped state Rep. Frank Buck, who flirted late last year with the idea of challenging Naifeh for the speaker's post, of his chairmanship of the powerful House Judiciary Committee.</p> <p>Naifeh, just elected to his seventh term earlier in the week, again raised the hackles of Republican members of the legislature by appointing only Democrats to lead the 13 House standing committees.</p>

Democrats Naifeh, Wilder re-elected to posts 11 Republicans vote for Naifeh for House post By TOM HUMPHREY, tomhumphrey3@aol.com January 15, 2003 NASHVILLE - Eleven Republicans joined all 54 Democratic representatives on Tuesday to elect Jimmy Naifeh to his seventh term as speaker of the state House while Lt. Gov. John Wilder won his 17th term as Senate speaker by unanimous, bipartisan vote. "This year, we need to do our business, balance the budget with no new taxes and go home," said Naifeh, 61, in an opening speech to the 103rd General Assembly after he was re-elected speaker 65-33 over Rep....

Naifeh renominated, but House Democrats still split By TOM SHARP Associated Press Writer November 23, 2002 NASHVILLE, Tenn.- Jimmy Naifeh was renominated by the House Democratic Caucus to a record-tying seventh term as speaker on Saturday, but all was not sweetness and light among the House's majority party. Naifeh was elected by acclamation when no one else was nominated. After the vote Rep. Frank Buck, a 30-year veteran of the House who had contemplated a run against Naifeh but decided against it, issued a broader challenge to the entire caucus. "We were down to a 13 percent approval rating. We...

<p>So hearty is Bill Clinton's appetite that he recently refused to leave a Maryland restaurant even after being informed of an impending police bust there.</p> <p>Clinton and his Secret Service bodyguards entered an Outback Steakhouse where undercover police officers had arranged a meeting with a murder suspect, The Washington Times reported.</p>

<p>Some Middle Tennessee legislators have seethed for years over the way their West Tennessee counterparts — sometimes called the ''West Tennessee Mafia'' — have run the state House, Rep. Frank Buck, a possible candidate for House speaker, said yesterday.</p> <p>Rural Weststate lawmakers have held most of the key leadership positions in the House for most of three decades.</p>

Restless Democrats, anti-tax GOP may team up to challenge Naifeh By Paula Wade wade@gomemphis.com November 8, 2002 NASHVILLE - House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh (D-Covington) may be facing opposition from dissident Democrats and anti-tax Republicans in the first serious challenge to his position in 12 years. The challenge would be a political earthquake. Rep. Frank Buck (D-Dowelltown), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, confirmed that he has been talking to Democrats and Republicans about a possible bipartisan coalition that would elect him as House speaker, and essentially agree to share powerful committee chairmanships and officerships with GOP lawmakers. "A bunch...

Demos lose seats, gain governorship By Tom Sharp, Associated Press November 7, 2002 NASHVILLE - Tennesseans shaved Democrats' margin of control in the Legislature on Tuesday but at the same time returned the party to the governor's office. Republicans gained three seats in the House, narrowing Democrats' majority to 54-45. The party breakdown remained 18-15 in the Senate. Democratic Gov.-elect Phil Bredesen said he hopes to model his relationship with the General Assembly on the one he had with the Nashville council during his eight years as mayor. "I will treat the Legislature with the same respect," he said. "I...

<p>A leading state House Republican acknowledged yesterday that some Democrats and Republicans may form a coalition to try to dump House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh from his leadership post because of Naifeh's support for a state income tax, but he said he would be no part of it.</p>

<p>Several Middle Tennessee-area lawmakers are under attack for their tax vote, including some who didn't vote for the controversial income tax.</p> <p>Two facing challenges are Rep. Rob Briley, D-Nashville, and Rep. Stratton Bone, D-Lebanon. Briley is opposed by Republican Karen Bennett, a residential property appraiser, and Bone by Republican Scott Winslow of Lebanon, a photo shop manager.</p>