Tennessee Elections: Democratic turnout in Shelby County’s House primaries surged to the highest level in a decade, with about a fifth of active registered voters casting ballots—organizers link the spike to anger over redistricting that broke up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district. Gubernatorial Politics: Senator Bo Watson thanked voters after the Aug. 6 primary, as Tennessee’s general election heads toward Nov. 3. Local Government: Rutherford County elected its youngest-ever commissioner, Brendan L. Doughtie, flipping a GOP seat and campaigning on environmental and affordability issues. Public Safety Tech: Arizona police credited Flock’s gunshot-detection alerts with helping officers respond before the first 911 call during a weekend shooting—another flashpoint in the national debate over surveillance tech. Courts & Speech: An Austin Peay professor fired over a social media post about Charlie Kirk has sued Sen. Marsha Blackburn, alleging misuse of governmental authority to suppress speech. Justice System: A Lebanon woman, Alisha Danielle Scudder, was sentenced to 340 months in federal prison for child sexual exploitation and trafficking. Crime & Accountability: A lawsuit filed by families of four teens who died by suicide targets major social media companies, alleging years of escalating harms. Energy & Costs: GasBuddy reports Tennessee midgrade and premium prices remain volatile, with some counties seeing low single-station prices near the high-$3 range.