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19-year-old accused three times of exposing self

A man that has been previously arrested for exposing himself in public is facing more charges. On Monday night, Metro police arrested Aquiles Rojas, 19, after a 14-year-old victim identified him last week as the man she saw masturbating in a white four-door Acura. The incident occurred on Colice Jeanne Road near Highway 70 South on Nov. 14, 2012. The victim told police she was walking when ...
Nashville columnist takes Stoops to task

UK head coach Mark Stoops watched the action from the field during the Blue-White football game on Saturday April 13, 2013 in Lexington, Ky. Photos by Mark Cornelison | ...
Cathie Anderson Pop artist Tennessee Loveless features Sacramento icons in painting

Troy Carlson is well outnumbered by Mickey Mouse as he looks over the artwork by Tennessee Loveless. Carlson's Stage Nine Entertainment Store in Old Sacramento will be the site of the TENxTENxTEN show of Loveless' work Saturday and ...
Fired yogurt shop worker accused of harassing ex-boss

A woman who was fired from a West End yogurt shop is accused of harassing her former supervisor. The incident occurred between a former employer and supervisor at Pinkberry. Police said the Pinkberry employee was fired from the business and then began harassing her former supervisor. Rebekah Tate, 25, is accused of using a service that allowed her to change her voice and hide her caller ...
63 cited after 19-year-olds party gets out of hand

JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) - Madison County Sheriff's deputies have cited 63 people after teenagers were caught drinking at a party thrown by a 19-year-old. According ...

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All the Pretty Horses

In Cormac McCarthy's 1992 novel All the Pretty Horses, it takes the main character, a young cowboy from Texas named John Grady Cole, almost half an hour to tell a judge the story of what happened to him from the time he left his Texas ranch to find work in Mexico to the point where he ends up in the courtroom. Director Billy Bob Thornon, on the other hand, takes two and a half hours to tel ... ...

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Nashville Symphony ending in-house food service

Management at the Nashville Symphony announced Monday they have decided to end its in-house food service at the beginning of August. According to a media release on its website, the symphony will still rent out the building for events but will use a pre-approved list of caterers after Aug. 4. Concessions and the bar service will still be available during events. The symphony owes more ...
Couple steal credit cards after Franklin car burglary

Franklin police are searching for a man and a woman in connection with an unsolved car burglary. Earlier this month, a wallet was stolen from an unlocked car on Carothers Parkway. Police said the man later used the victim's credit cards at shops in the Cool Springs area. Investigators said he bought more than $600 worth of goods. If you recognize the man or woman in the attached ...
1-year-olds skull fractured by bullet in Jackson

http://bit.ly/10tjtfT ), police said the bullet grazed the infant boy and did not strike his brain. The child was taken to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, where he was listed in critical ...
Underage prostitution bust at Donelson hotel

Investigators have made an arrest in connection with an underage prostitution business. Police responded to an ad for an escort service, which led them to Room 421 at the La Quinta Inn on Atrium Way in Donelson. An undercover officer went inside and met two women, who allegedly agreed to sex for $600. According to arrest records, police took both women into custody. Police said one of the ...
20-year-old Murfreesboro man faces child porn charges

. Police showed up at Benjamin Watts' apartment to check on a child that they believed was living at the location. The child belonged to a friend's girlfriend. Officers said they found drugs and paraphernalia as well as pictures of child pornography on the wall. During questioning, Watts allegedly admitted to having hundreds more ...

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Cauvery Supervisory Committee rejects TN demand for its share of water

The Cauvery Supervisory Committee has rejected Tamil Nadu's demand for its share of water saying that it is not feasible due to the deficit in inflows and very low storage level in the reservoirs in Karnataka.

The Committee meeting, chaired by Union Water Resources Secretary S K Sarkar here last evening, saw representatives of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu sparring over the water-sharing of the Cauvery river.

However, a meeting of the Committee scheduled for the first week of July would review the situation.

The meeting noted that availability of water was very small as compared to the average and even less than that of last year's storage.

It hoped the water availability would improve during the monsoon which was expected to be good.

It was noted that inflows in Karnataka was about 85 per cent deficit of the normal and the flow at Biligundulu is also 75.4 per cent deficit with respect to normal flows.

"Looking at the data as cited above such as the deficit in inflows and very low storages in the reservoir in the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, the request of Tamil Nadu for release of water by Karnataka was considered and found not feasible as of now," the meeting concluded.

While Tamil Nadu demanded a total of 63 thousand million cubic feet (tmc) of Cauvery water, Karnataka said it had no water to spare for the neighbouring state. ...