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Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Mar 17, 2023

The Tennessean reports that former longtime courthouse reporter William Kirk Loggins died Thursday morning from post-stroke dementia at a memory care facility. He was 76. A lifelong Middle Tennessee journalist, Loggins covered Nashville's courts for The Tennessean for 26 years starting in 1976 before he retired in 2002. "A good day at the courthouse," Loggins told a Lipscomb University interviewer in 2012, "was like going to the movies." Among hundreds of criminal trials, Loggins covered 15 death penalty cases and witnessed the first Tennessee execution in 40 years in April 2000.