Nashville News

The Tennessean

• East Tennessee cop cleared in pit bull shooting

  The Tennessean – 2 hrs 59 mins ago  

  KINGSPORT, Tenn. - A Sullivan County grand jury has cleared a Kingsport police officer of any criminal wrongdoing for the fatal shooting of a pit bull. Full Story »

• Homeless man falls into fire, dies

  The Tennessean – Fri Dec 11, 3:26 am ET  

  A homeless man sitting on a crate alongside a crude fire trying to keep warm under the bridge where he lived plunged headfirst into the flames early Thursday. Full Story »

• Alive Hospice CFO quits after admitting to fraud at former employer

  The Tennessean – Fri Dec 11, 3:26 am ET  

  Alive Hospice's new chief financial officer, hired while under federal indictment for 10 counts of mail fraud, has resigned. Full Story »

• Mending Hearts extends helping hand, hope to women

  The Tennessean – Fri Dec 11, 3:25 am ET  

  Karen Pritchard doesn't remember much about the day she killed her husband. Full Story »

• Hard times increase need for help at community resource centers

  The Tennessean – Fri Dec 11, 3:25 am ET  

  Two community resource centers say the economic downturn has produced significant increases in the number of people seeking help with holiday gifts for children. Full Story »

WKRN Nashville

• State Capitol gets new Christmas tree

  WKRN Nashville – 2 mins ago  

  The state is getting a new Christmas tree Friday after high winds earlier this week caused the old one to topple over and snap. Full Story »

• Candles could be to blame for house fire

  WKRN Nashville – 2 mins ago  

  Candles could be to blame for a fire Thursday night in south Nashville. Full Story »

• Last Minute Toy Store opens next week

  WKRN Nashville – 32 mins ago  

  The Last Minute Toy Store is currently accepting donations. It opens next Friday at the 61st Avenue United Methodist Church. Full Story »

• Pizza restaurant employee robbed at gunpoint

  WKRN Nashville – 32 mins ago  

  Police are searching for the man who robbed a Gallatin Pike pizza restaurant earlier this week. Full Story »

• Mid-State residents see season's coldest night

  WKRN Nashville – Fri Dec 11, 9:06 am ET  

  Temperatures in the teens overnight will warm Friday to near 40 degrees. Full Story »

Nashville City Paper

• Police searching for violent sex offender

  Nashville City Paper – Fri Dec 11, 2:13 am ET  

  Homeless man skipped monthly police check-in More Full Story »

• ESPN reporter’s stalker to plead guilty

  Nashville City Paper – Fri Dec 11, 1:28 am ET  

  Businessman allegedly filmed Erin Andrews during Nashville visit More Full Story »

• Shootout a fitting conclusion to Predators' win over Columbus

  Nashville City Paper – Fri Dec 11, 12:28 am ET  

  Sullivan ends extended shootout, snaps league-record win streak of Blue Jackets' goalie. More Full Story »

• Artist makes claim on Steve McNair’s estate

  Nashville City Paper – Fri Dec 11, 12:28 am ET  

  Greenbrier woman joins growing list of people waiting to see how state divvies up estate More Full Story »

• Vanderbilt women's hoops survives scare at Quinnipiac

  Nashville City Paper – Thu Dec 10, 9:28 pm ET  

  Tuomi's free throws with six seconds to play provide necessary cushion in 75-74 victory. More Full Story »

WSMV Nashville

• New Tenn. Education Initiative With Battelle

  WSMV Nashville – 16 mins ago  

  Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen is forming a new education partnership with a Columbus, Ohio-based global research and development group. Full Story »

• Trane Eliminates 24 Salaried Workers

  WSMV Nashville – 16 mins ago  

  One of Clarksvilles largest employers is cutting jobs. Full Story »

• Fire Departments Train On Donated House

  WSMV Nashville – 31 mins ago  

  A home on Wilson Pike is donated so fire crews can conduct live fire-training exercises. Full Story »

• Hearing Held About MDHA's Eminent Domain

  WSMV Nashville – 46 mins ago  

  More could be known Friday in the battle over land for the new downtown convention center. Full Story »

• Nashville Arena Manager Leaving For Boston

  WSMV Nashville – 1 hr 46 mins ago  

  Hugh Lombardi, the manager of the Nashville Arena, is leaving to take charge of the TD Garden in Boston, according to The Tennessean newspaper. Full Story »

News Channel 5 Nashville

• New Tenn. Education Initiative With Battelle

  News Channel 5 Nashville – 49 mins ago  

  Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen is forming a new education partnership with a Columbus, Ohio-based global research and development group. Bredesen made the announcement in Mt. Juliet on Friday. Full Story »

• Country Singer Eric Church Nurses Broken Foot

  News Channel 5 Nashville – 1 hr 34 mins ago  

  Country singer Eric Church is hot off a top 10 hit with 'Love Your Love the Most.' He's climbing the charts with the new single 'Hell on the Heart,' and he's trying to heal a broken foot. Full Story »

• Fort Campbell Breaks Ground On New Commissary

  News Channel 5 Nashville – 2 hrs 4 mins ago  

  Fort Campbell officials will break ground on a new commissary that will be one of the biggest in the Department of Defense. Full Story »

• Applications For Extension Of Unemployment Available

  News Channel 5 Nashville – 2 hrs 19 mins ago  

  The state's Department of Labor said applications for extended unemployment benefits are available online Friday. Full Story »

• Cold Patrol Searches For Homeless, Cold Overnight

  News Channel 5 Nashville – 2 hrs 19 mins ago  

  When temperatures dip below freezing, the situation can get dangerous for Music City's homeless, and that's when the Nashville Rescue Mission's Cold Patrol comes in. Full Story »

News-Democrat & Leader

• Community rallies to aid family

  News-Democrat & Leader – 31 mins ago  

  A fire that destroyed a Russellville home over the weekend ignited a spirit of giving throughout the community. Two families were left homeless and with no belongings Saturday after a fire gutted ... Full Story »

• A lesson in giving

  News-Democrat & Leader – 31 mins ago  

  A lesson in manufacturing turned into a community outreach project for one Logan County High School class. Students in Zane Williams’ Technology Design and Application class recently built 30 toy ... Full Story »

• Mud makes magistrate mad

  News-Democrat & Leader – 31 mins ago  

  Magistrate Dickie Carter brought a concern to his fellow magistrates Tuesday concerning mud on the roadway in front of Cumberland Scrap located on Morgantown Road. Carter had spoken with represen... Full Story »

• Jones to hang up hat

  News-Democrat & Leader – 32 mins ago  

  R’ville Councilman won’t run for reelection Full Story »

• Large dump cleaned at Epley Station

  News-Democrat & Leader – 32 mins ago  

  One more illegal dump is being cleaned up in Logan County thanks to the Fiscal Court and a grant from the state. Solid Waste Coordinator Dwight Cockrill asked Fiscal Court to sign off on their por... Full Story »

Shelbyville Times-Gazette

• Judge resentences leader of gambling operation

  Shelbyville Times-Gazette – 58 mins ago  

  Eight weekends of confinement have been added to the sentence of the ringleader of a local gambling operation, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Last month James Chadwick Tucker was sentenced to 42... Full Story »

• Fire, 'explosion' stun Flat Creek-area neighborhood

  Shelbyville Times-Gazette – 59 mins ago  

  Heavy smoke and an explosion alerted a homeowner and neighbors to a blaze that broke out Thursday afternoon in a garage near Flat Creek. Members of Bedford County Fire Department from Flat Creek and... Full Story »

• Proposed spending freeze rejected

  Shelbyville Times-Gazette – 59 mins ago  

  A spending freeze that was proposed for the city of Shelbyville last week was voted down Thursday evening. In a vote of 4-2, the council rejected the freeze, which was requested last week by... Full Story »

• MTEC progress proves governments can cooperate, Ray says

  Shelbyville Times-Gazette – 1 hr 14 mins ago  

  Bedford County Mayor Eugene Ray led several county commissioners, Shelbyville councilmen and others on a tour of Middle Tennessee Education Center, the satellite site for Middle Tennessee State... Full Story »

• Tech updates help county improve communication

  Shelbyville Times-Gazette – 1 hr 14 mins ago  

  James Trott, who joined Bedford County this year as information technology (IT) manager, says changes in the county's networking and technology will help improve communications between departments... Full Story »

Nashville Scene

• Love-Hate Mail

  Nashville Scene – Thu Dec 10, 10:07 am ET  

  A fine Nashvillian I just read Lyda Phillips' article and was moved to respond (" Our City in Ruins ," Dec. 3). I am a local roofing contractor and have been on or around many of the buildings highlighted in the article. Full Story »

• Kings of Leon bassist buys $1.83 million home: this and other mega-dollar sales in our regular roundup of Nashville’s ...

  Nashville Scene – Thu Dec 10, 10:07 am ET  

  A foreclosure tops November's list of the biggest home sales in town, but more interesting transactions can be found a few notches down. Full Story »

• Ho Ho Horror

  Nashville Scene – Thu Dec 10, 10:07 am ET  

  The design crimebusters are out in full force this holiday season. Their target: the Christmas display among the flagpoles at the foot of Broadway. One irate Deep Throat fumed about "the cheesy Santa with Home Depot reindeer." Full Story »

• Even after a sex-abuse scandal, NHC Bristol nursing home employees still don't know how to handle abuse allegations ...

  Nashville Scene – Thu Dec 10, 10:06 am ET  

  Last August, after a staffer was charged with molesting elderly patients—some of whom were too ill or frail to plead for help—at a Bristol, Va., nursing home run by Murfreesboro-based National Healthcare Corp., whistleblowers hoped that the ensuing attention would create an inhospitable climate for serial predators. Full Story »

• The Year in Music: Top Shows

  Nashville Scene – Thu Dec 10, 10:06 am ET  

  If you stayed at home leaving nasty anonymous comments on Nashville Cream instead of going out to shows this year, go ahead and kick yourself six times right now—and that's just for missing The Jesus Lizard. Full Story »

Kentucky New Era

• Numbers matter

  Kentucky New Era – Thu Dec 10, 2:45 pm ET  

  The U.S. Census Bureau is preparing to hire hundreds of temporary workers through a Hopkinsville office to help conduct the 2010 population count. Full Story »

• Local Briefs

  Kentucky New Era – Thu Dec 10, 2:45 pm ET  

  Nominations sought for defense freedom award Families and members of the Kentucky National Guard and Reserve have five weeks left to nominate their employers for the 2010 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award. Full Story »

• Tri-county EDC proposed

  Kentucky New Era – Thu Dec 10, 10:45 am ET  

  A shift in how businesses are recruited to the area could produce more jobs locally. Full Story »

• Man suffers head injury in Seventh Street collision

  Kentucky New Era – Thu Dec 10, 10:45 am ET  

  A man was transported to Jennie Stuart Medical Center for a head injury Tuesday after an ambulance struck his Suzuki Forenza. Full Story »

• Trigg ordinance lifts prohibition

  Kentucky New Era – Wed Dec 9, 7:46 am ET  

  CADIZ, Ky. — If Trigg County residents want to celebrate the repeal of prohibition on Jan. 1, they’ll have to buy their drinks across the county border. No Trigg stores will stock alcohol before the end of January. Full Story »

The Leaf Chronicle

• Aspire Clarksville sets new private goal of $3 million for economic development

  The Leaf Chronicle – 1 hr 11 mins ago  

  Aspire Clarksville community investors learned in a breakfast this morning that the private marketing arm of the Clarksville-Montgomery County Economic Development Council has set a five-year, $3 million goal for continuation of the program. Full Story »

• SC first lady files for divorce from cheating gov

  The Leaf Chronicle – 2 hrs 11 mins ago  

  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's first lady, a former Wall Street vice president who helped launch her husband's political career, announced Friday she is filing for divorce months after his tearful public confession of an affair with an Argentine woman. Full Story »

• KES photo gallery coming Monday

  The Leaf Chronicle – Fri Dec 11, 9:13 am ET  

  The 'In the Schools' weekly series will continue Monday with the spotlight on Kenwood Elementary School. Full Story »

• Lane closed on College Street

  The Leaf Chronicle – Fri Dec 11, 9:12 am ET  

  An eastbound lane of College Street between Red River Street and Hornburger Street, again will be closed from 8 a.m. until around 4 p.m. Friday, according to a news release by Rhonda Fulton, Clarksville Gas and Water spokeswoman. Full Story »

• Today's Forecast: Sunny with light winds

  The Leaf Chronicle – Fri Dec 11, 8:42 am ET  

  The Leaf-Chronicle's National Weather Service as of 3:27 a.m.: Today...Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 40s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Full Story »