Longtime AP newsman Joe Edwards dies at 75

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Joe Edwards, who chronicled Tennessee news for more than 40 years as a newsman for The Associated Press and helped “Rocky Top” become a state song, has died. He was 75. A longtime AP colleague of Edwards, Randall Dickerson, said Edwards’ wife called him to share the news that her husband died Friday in Nashville.

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