Editors note: This is one of a series of articles about the candidates seeking to represent Rutherford County in Tennessee General Assembly seats. Republican state Rep. Charlie Baum faces Democrat ...

Baum and Brown seek to win a two-year term to represent District 37 Early voting will be Oct. 16-31 Candidates respond to questions about their positions on funding public charter schools and vouchers ...

Cheri Brown Thompson, founder of the nonprofit organization The Healing Species, says empowering children to stop violence in its tracks can help them overcome abuse and grief and set them on the path ...

Local attorney Cheri Brown Thompson has empathy for others in distress, coupled with a desire to alleviate that distress. In other words, she has compassion. Thompson brings abused animals and ...