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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WMOT)  --  Middle Tennessee State University announced Friday that it has purchased the former Middle Tennessee Medical Center property for just over $11 million dollars.

The hospital moved to a new $267 million facility in 2010.  MTMC has been looking for a buyer ever since, and President Gordon Ferguson says he always hoped it would be MTSU.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The owner of a Maryville pill mill who jumped bond during her federal trial for conspiracy, drug charges and money laundering has been sentenced to spend more than 21 years in federal prison.

The Knoxville News Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/Zwo9hZ) U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan on Thursday also ordered all of Tammy Guzman's assets forfeited.

The 42-year-old was convicted earlier this year in a pills-for-cash scheme at her Maryville Pain Consultants clinic that netted at least $2 million over two years.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A private high school in Nashville has been closed after receiving some type of threat.

WSMV-TV reports (http://bit.ly/ZDw6xZ) all campus activities at Father Ryan High School were canceled Friday after police informed school officials of the threat.

Officials have said only that the threat was posted online in some form.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A U.S. State Department worker and former copy editor at the Knoxville News Sentinel is recovering in the U.S. after she was wounded in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

The News Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/XKyWo7 ) that Kelly Hunt was one of a group on a goodwill mission to deliver textbooks to students at a school on April 6 when a suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden vehicle into their convoy.

MURFREESBORO, TN (WMOT) – Convicted murderer Shanterrica Madden is appealing her conviction in the stabbing death of MTSU basketball standout Tina Stewart.

Madden's defense attorney, Joe Brandon Jr., filed an appeal Wednesday to the Tennessee Court of Appeals.

Madden stood trial in May of 2012 in Murfreesboro on a charge of first degree murder. Jurors returned a verdict of second-degree murder.

Police say she stabbed her former roommate, Stewart,  in 2011 as the two women first argued then fought in their off-campus apartment.