Nashville News

The Tennessean

• Economic recovery momentum is slowly building

  The Tennessean – Sat Nov 28, 3:26 am ET  

  While there is no official word yet, it seems likely that the great recession is history. Full Story »

• Green jobs are in America's best interest

  The Tennessean – Sat Nov 28, 3:26 am ET  

  The emergence of a grass-roots movement pushing for green economic solutions to climate change and poverty has been a surprising development in the last couple of years. This movement believes environmentally sustainable policies and the shift to a clean energy economy can lead to a reduction of pollution and greenhouse gases. Full Story »

• Nature lover turns Owl's Hill into sanctuary

  The Tennessean – Sat Nov 28, 3:26 am ET  

  Retired director Jean Buchanan is credited with Owl's Hill's metamorphosis into a 160-acre nature sanctuary that today is visited by about 8,000 students a year. Full Story »

• UT archaeologists continue excavating Indian village

  The Tennessean – Sat Nov 28, 3:25 am ET  

  GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Archaeologists with the University of Tennessee say it will take four more weeks to finish excavating a Woodland Indian village. Full Story »

• Salama Institute nurtures students' leadership skills

  The Tennessean – Sat Nov 28, 3:25 am ET  

  The Salama Institute is open to at-risk youths in kindergarten through 12th grade. Classes meet for two and a half hours after school and all day during the summer months. Full Story »

WKRN Nashville

• Black Friday shoppers flood area stores

  WKRN Nashville – Sat Nov 28, 11:06 am ET  

  The lure of big bargains brought out big crowds for post-Thanksgiving shopping. Full Story »

• Nashville International Auto Show kicks off

  WKRN Nashville – Sat Nov 28, 10:21 am ET  

  Thousands are expected for the three day event at Nashville Convention Center. Full Story »

• Veteran Nashville firefighter celebrates 50 years

  WKRN Nashville – Fri Nov 27, 11:51 pm ET  

  District Chief Bobby Connelly celebrates 50 years of fighting fires in Nashville, and says he has no plans to retire. Full Story »

• Bargain hunters shop flea market on Black Friday

  WKRN Nashville – Fri Nov 27, 10:36 pm ET  

  While many shoppers hit the malls and big box retailers Friday, others headed for the Tennessee State Fairgrounds in search of good deals. Full Story »

• Possible Music City Bowl match ups excite organizers, businesses

  WKRN Nashville – Fri Nov 27, 10:21 pm ET  

  The December 27th contest will be spotlighted nationally as the only college bowl game of the night. Full Story »

Nashville City Paper

• Unwanted result comes with Predators' new look

  Nashville City Paper – Fri Nov 27, 11:50 pm ET  

  Seven-game win streak ends, new era for uniforms begins with 3-1 loss to St. Louis. More Full Story »

• Gage doubtful for Titans against Cardinals

  Nashville City Paper – Fri Nov 27, 2:58 pm ET  

  Receiver still has not practiced since injuring back Nov. 8 More Full Story »

• Old nemesis Warner returns to face Titans

  Nashville City Paper – Thu Nov 26, 4:43 pm ET  

  QB facing Titans Sunday for first time since beating them in Super Bowl XXXIV More Full Story »

• Report calls out MDHA for 'serious flaws' in contracting practices

  Nashville City Paper – Thu Nov 26, 1:16 pm ET  

  Metro officials question whether it is their best interests to 'continue working with MDHA' on the project. More Full Story »

• Predators extended to overtime but extend winning streak

  Nashville City Paper – Thu Nov 26, 1:35 am ET  

  Legwand gets the game-winner after Nashville loses early two-goal advantage. More Full Story »

WSMV Nashville

• Remains Of Missing Boaters May Have Been Found

  WSMV Nashville – Sat Nov 28, 9:30 am ET  

  Marion County Emergency Management officials say they may have recovered partial human remains of two or three missing boaters. Full Story »

• Burglar Strikes Smyrna Hotel

  WSMV Nashville – Sat Nov 28, 9:15 am ET  

  Several rooms at a Smyrna hotel were burglarized on Black Friday. Full Story »

• Fort Campbell Parents Carry On Football Tradition

  WSMV Nashville – Sat Nov 28, 12:30 am ET  

  Bill and Kim Williams lost their son, a football player, in July after he collapsed on the practice field. They maintain a close relationship with the players. Full Story »

• Advocates Want Toyota Recall Expanded

  WSMV Nashville – Fri Nov 27, 10:30 pm ET  

  Car safety advocates say Toyota's recall plan to fix nearly $4 million vehicles with sudden acceleration problems is not enough. Full Story »

• Playground Equipment Tossed Over Fence

  WSMV Nashville – Fri Nov 27, 8:15 pm ET  

  For the second time in less than two weeks, vandals have hit a playground at a day care in Murfreesboro. Full Story »

News Channel 5 Nashville

• Police Out In Force For Holiday Shopping

  News Channel 5 Nashville – Sat Nov 28, 2:01 am ET  

  Metro Nashville Police will have officers in uniform and under cover at shopping centers throughout Davidson County during the holidays. Full Story »

• Small Businesses Use Social Media To Reach Customers

  News Channel 5 Nashville – Sat Nov 28, 2:01 am ET  

  Small business owners across Middle Tennessee have found social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are an effective way to connect with customers. Full Story »

• Group Wants Unsolved Murders Week

  News Channel 5 Nashville – Fri Nov 27, 8:16 pm ET  

  An advocacy group for families wants to set aside the week of December 13th to focus on unsolved murders. Full Story »

• Neglected Horses Moved To Fairgrounds For Treatment

  News Channel 5 Nashville – Fri Nov 27, 8:01 pm ET  

  More than 80 horses found clinging to life on a Cannon County farm have been getting treatment at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds in Nashville. Full Story »

• Thousands Shop On Black Friday In Middle Tennessee

  News Channel 5 Nashville – Fri Nov 27, 7:31 pm ET  

  Great deals and bargain hunters filled malls and shopping centers on Black Friday, looking for the perfect gift at a discounted price. Full Story »

News-Democrat & Leader

• Story Time at Library

  News-Democrat & Leader – Fri Nov 27, 10:52 am ET  

  Brianna Winn reads to Ella and Audrey Scott. Brianna is a member of the LITs (Leaders in Training) and volunteers to read to children as a Reading Buddy. See more photographs and new books on Page ... Full Story »

• Waste Management withdraws request

  News-Democrat & Leader – Fri Nov 27, 10:52 am ET  

  Court likely would have voted ‘no’ Full Story »

• The first sixth months

  News-Democrat & Leader – Fri Nov 27, 10:52 am ET  

  With six months of service in Logan County under his belt, Jim Duke, president and director for Com-Care, Inc., says things are going very well. Come-Care took over the county’s ambulance needs in... Full Story »

• Food costs at the jail down $11,000

  News-Democrat & Leader – Fri Nov 27, 10:52 am ET  

  Low population continues Full Story »

• 585 bags of trash picked up in October

  News-Democrat & Leader – Fri Nov 27, 10:51 am ET  

  A total of 585 bags of trash were picked up over 96.8 mile radius in Logan County through the month of October according to an activities report given Tuesday to Fiscal Court by Solid Waste Coordin... Full Story »

Shelbyville Times-Gazette

• Use caution and stay safe while shopping

  Shelbyville Times-Gazette – Fri Nov 27, 10:54 am ET  

  Do you think pickpockets only work in the big cities? Think again. Just last week a wallet was stolen from the purse of a customer at a local Chinese restaurant. The victim told police said a woman... Full Story »

• Installments to be accepted for past-due property taxes

  Shelbyville Times-Gazette – Fri Nov 27, 10:39 am ET  

  Bedford County Financial Management Committee gave its recommendation Tuesday night to a proposal to temporarily allow past-due property taxes to be paid in installments due to the bad economy.... Full Story »

• Suspects in court on sex charges

  Shelbyville Times-Gazette – Fri Nov 27, 10:39 am ET  

  Two men who face sexually related charges involving minors made their first court appearance on Wednesday. Charles Presley Jr., 63, of Landers Street, Shelbyville has been charged with sexual battery... Full Story »

• County unemployment rate rises slightly

  Shelbyville Times-Gazette – Fri Nov 27, 10:39 am ET  

  Bedford County's unemployment rate climbed slightly in October to 12.3 percent, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The... Full Story »

• Down but not out: Injured rodeo star on long ride back to ring

  Shelbyville Times-Gazette – Thu Nov 26, 1:10 am ET  

  "Well, they always said I was hardheaded." Marcella Upchurch grinned as she said this. The puckish grin isn't the only thing she's hiding under the brim of her ball cap. There's also a faint scar,... Full Story »

Nashville Scene

• Love-Hate Mail

  Nashville Scene – Wed Nov 25, 2:21 pm ET  

  'Precious' memories Very well-written article (" In Livid Color ," Nov. 19). I hadn't read about the bucket-of-chicken episode in Precious but have read of the pigs-feet-cooking contrasted with her abuse in the film on-screen. Full Story »

• A proposal to limit community DJs on Vanderbilt's WRVU triggers an avalanche of anger—but the air may be clearing

  Nashville Scene – Wed Nov 25, 2:21 pm ET  

  Most any night, a Nashvillian can venture onto the neatly managed lawns of the Vanderbilt campus and hear anything from a talk by internationally renowned scholars to a Survivor alum discussing racial stereotypes. Full Story »

• Lots of preparation, some luck and a little deception is what's needed for Titans' interceptions

  Nashville Scene – Wed Nov 25, 2:20 pm ET  

  OK, let's time travel back to Nov. 15 at LP Field in the fourth quarter of the Tennessee Titans' 41-17 victory over the Buffalo Bills. Ahead by 10 points, the Titans' lead appears to be safe—but one more play from someone would make certain of it. Full Story »

• Blame the decline of Western civilization on lousy drivers

  Nashville Scene – Wed Nov 25, 2:20 pm ET  

  Is it just me, or have local drivers gotten madder and meaner in the last year or so? I know, I know. Citizens have been complaining about Nashville drivers since people started riding mules around town in the 1800s. Full Story »

• Hero pilot Hal Graham’s hard fall to earth

  Nashville Scene – Wed Nov 25, 2:20 pm ET  

  On a chilly Halloween afternoon, a group of about 70 people huddled outside an aluminum hangar at Crossville Memorial Airport, a tiny airstrip some 70 miles west of Knoxville. Full Story »

Kentucky New Era

• Phone book omits HES

  Kentucky New Era – Sat Nov 28, 1:59 pm ET  

  The telephone number for Hopkinsville Electric System is 270-887-4200. Full Story »

• Local Briefs

  Kentucky New Era – Sat Nov 28, 1:59 pm ET  

  Christmas parade deadline approaching The deadline to enter a float or unit in the 2009 Hopkinsville Christmas Parade is noon Tuesday. Full Story »

• His cut of history

  Kentucky New Era – Fri Nov 27, 9:59 pm ET  

  A step inside the Indian Hills Barber Shop, tucked obscurely behind Enigma Tattoo Company and China King restaurant on Canton Street, is like a peek inside a time capsule. The shop’s checkered floors, barbers’ chairs and tattered Coca-Cola machine, punching out bottled soda since 1960, are just a few holdovers from a long bygone era. Full Story »

• Police looking for suspect in taxi driver sexual assault

  Kentucky New Era – Fri Nov 27, 9:59 pm ET  

  Police are looking for a Fort Campbell man who allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted a taxi driver Sunday morning. Full Story »

• The imPerfect Thanksgiving

  Kentucky New Era – Wed Nov 25, 9:29 am ET  

  In the beginning, there was no Wal-Mart Supercenter, no Kroger or IGA with pile upon pile of Thanksgiving turkeys. Full Story »

The Leaf Chronicle

• Lady Govs, Northwestern St. tied 36-all at halftime

  The Leaf Chronicle – 1 hr 43 mins ago  

  NASHVILLE – Austin Peay and Northwestern State are tied 36-all at halftime of their game at the Vanderbilt Thanksgiving Tournament. The Lady Govs tied the game at 9-all on Whitney Hanley’s 3-pointer with 15:21 left. Full Story »

• Proposal would put restrictions on liquor sales

  The Leaf Chronicle – Sat Nov 28, 12:43 pm ET  

  CADIZ, Ky. (AP) — Businesses preparing to serve alcohol when liquor sales soon become legal in a western Kentucky county may not get to advertise those beverages. Full Story »

• Afternoon forecast: Mostly sunny, 60s

  The Leaf Chronicle – Sat Nov 28, 12:27 pm ET  

  The National Weather Service forecast as of 3:37 a.m.: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Full Story »

• 'Doorbuster' rush leaves one injured in Clarksville

  The Leaf Chronicle – Sat Nov 28, 6:14 am ET  

  Amy Serna had been in line at Toys R Us since 8 p.m. Thanksgiving day so she'd be there when the doors opened at midnight for Black Friday sales. Full Story »

• Black Friday shoppers storm Clarksville stores

  The Leaf Chronicle – Sat Nov 28, 6:13 am ET  

  Jessica Haynes and Deke Sawyers celebrated two special days on Thursday: Thanksgiving Day and Haynes' 23rd birthday, and they did it on the sidewalk in front of Best Buy. Full Story »