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  • More new jobs in Tennessee Will they all have Obama-approved insurance

    The jobs will be added over the next three years through a $1.3 million investment, according to the company president, Jerry O'Connor. Governor Haslam was on hand for the announcement, and O'Connor told him that this expansion is partly due to new contracts with automotive companies. News of these new jobs comes on the heel of announcements of 300 jobs being added at Tennessee ...

  • Crime Rates in Nashville Tn

    Let's start with the population: 609,644 Crime is rated by a 'crime index' with 100 being the safest and of course 0 being the most dangerous. Nashville ranks 5. Yes, you read that right, a whole whopping 5. Your chances of becoming a victim is 1 out of 20. That is in Nashville alone mind you. The whole state of Tn is 1 in 28. So, basically if you live anywhere in Tn besides ...

  • Nashville Music Guru T Bone Burnett Wont Return for Season 2

    'Nashville' Cast, Creators Offer 10 Teasers on the Hurdles to Come (Exclusive Videos) The show's executive music producer will not be returning to the ...

  • Metro schools leader pledges support for immigration reform

    The director of Metro Nashville Public Schools is not holding back talking about immigration reform. Dr. Jesse Register has joined a growing chorus of top school and business leaders urging Congress to pass the plan currently under debate in the Senate. Register sent a letter to MNPS staff last week, asking them to contact congressional leaders to support immigration reform. He said reform ...

  • TN teachers trained on new common core standards

    Tennessee education officials are training teachers from across the state on how to implement a new set of uniform benchmarks for math and reading. Education Department spokeswoman Kelli Gauthier says more than 30,000 teachers have signed up to be trained on the common core state standards over the next six weeks. Training sessions began on Tuesday. The standards, which 45 states and the ...


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Movie Review

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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  • 2nd suspect arrested in fatal shooting near Wedgewood Ave.

    Police in Memphis have arrested a man suspected in the fatal shooting of a man at an attempted illegal drug deal earlier this year on Hillside Avenue. Santerius Lavender, 24, is accused in the death of 33-year-old Chad Daniel on April 9 after an attempted illegal drug deal led to shots fired into the vehicle in which Daniel was a passenger. Daniel had ridden in the vehicle to Hillside ...

  • 6-year-old recovering after frightening accident with family dog

    A 6-year-old girl who was badly bitten by her family's dog is back home from the hospital after several surgeries to repair the damage to her head. Now, Madison Mason said she wants to thank the people who prayed for her after the attack her dad says was just a horrible accident. Three weeks ago, Madison's mom was outside playing with their 3-year-old German shepherd, Danny, when ...

  • Daycare workers drugged kids with spiked pancakes

    WESTERVILLE, OH (WCMH) - An Ohio woman is facing six counts of endangering children after she allegedly drugged children at a child care center operated out of her home. Tammy Elaine Eppley, 37, is accused of crushing medications and supplements, including melatonin and an antihistamine, used for the purpose of causing drowsiness, and mixing it into prepared food for the children at her ...

  • Lennar makes foray into Nashville market

    Miami-based Lennar Corp. said it has expanded homebuilding operations into the Nashville, Tenn., market, acquiring control of about 40 homesites in the Tollgate Village community.Lennar said its new venture into Nashville is overseen by Andy Pfeifer, who is a 12-year Nashville homebuilding veteran. Lennar’s move into Tennessee is part of a recent strategic expansion that includes Atlanta, ...

  • Two more plead guilty in federal probe of Pilot Flying J

    Two more employees of the truck stop chain owned by the family of Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam have pleaded guilty in a federal probe of the company's business practices. Pilot Flying J regional sales managers Kevin Wallace Clark and Jay Stinnett pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, according to Knoxville NBC ...

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