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In May 2019, Lee introduced her main initiative as First Lady, called Tennessee Serves. The program is designed to encourage Tennessee residents to engage in community service. The initiative also strongly focuses on youth serving. “At a young age, my parents taught me the importance of serving others, and now, it’s a big part of who I am.
Bradley Dawson is escorted through Lautoka High Court in Suva, Fiji, on Jan. 27, 2025. Dawson was convicted in the murder of his wife, Christie Chen, on their honeymoon in 2023.
On April 17, 1991, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, 22-year-old Traci Crozier (September 1, 1968 – April 18, 1991) was murdered by her former boyfriend, who confined her in her car and set the car on fire with a container of gasoline. Crozier suffered multiple burn wounds around more than 90% of her body and died in hospital the following day.
In February 2020, Lee signed a bill making Tennessee's official nickname the "Volunteer State". The name originated during the War of 1812, when Tennessee sent 1,500 volunteer soldiers. [141] In 2021, Lee appointed John DeBerry as his senior advisor. DeBerry was a Democratic member of the state house whom the Tennessee Democratic Party removed ...
A self-proclaimed "serial killer" in Tennessee who murdered his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn baby has been sentenced to a total of 261 years in prison after being connected to three other ...
It is Lee's third year in a row to grant a swath of December clemency decisions. The governor in 2020 loosened criteria to qualify for a review. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee issues 22 pardons ...
On 12 July 2016, 48-year-old Leslie Khoo allegedly killed his 31-year-old girlfriend Cui Yajie, a Tianjin-born Chinese engineer, in his car during a heated argument nearby Gardens by the Bay. Khoo took the body to a remote forest in Lim Chu Kang where he burnt the body for three days before he was arrested.
Uxoricide (from Latin uxor meaning "wife" and -cide, from caedere meaning "to cut, to kill") is the killing of one's own wife. It can also be used in the context of the killing of one's own girlfriend. It can refer to the act itself or the person who carries it out. Conversely, the killing of a husband or boyfriend is called mariticide.