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  • Mosquitoes starting to bite in East Tennessee

    A wet spring and climbing temperatures mean mosquitoes are making their comeback to East Tennessee. The Knox County Health Department is already working to stay ahead of the seasonal problem. Earlier this month, the health department started setting traps all around the county to test the bugs for West Nile Virus. So far, each of the tests have come back with only negative results. In ...

  • Nashville jail officer accused of child porn possession

    A corrections officer was arrested right at the jail where he works. Vance Dunn, 24, was taken into custody Friday at the Metro-Davidson County Detention facility on Harding Place in Nashville, according to Metro Police. Dunn is charged with sexual exploitation of a minor after he was accused of having hundreds of images of child pornography. A tip led police to investigate, and Metro ...

  • Man with Bible taped to chest accused of hitting officer with car

    A Nashville man is accused of striking a Paris police officer with his car. Thelma Easley was arrested Sunday after the Paris Police Department said he was in his car in the parking lot outside a Paris restaurant, screaming, with a Bible taped to his chest. When officers tried to get Easley to come out of the car, he allegedly backed the vehicle into Officer Ryan French. Easley is now ...

  • TX truck driver arrested in mans death at Nashville motel

    A suspect has been arrested in the death of a west Tennessee man at a north Nashville motel earlier this month. Eric Lozano, 31, of Lyford, TX, is charged with criminal homicide after the body of Mitchel Moreno, 52, was discovered inside a room at the Cumberland Inn on West Trinity Lane on May 9. A maintenance man entered the room just after 1 p.m. and found Moreno's body. The victim is ...

  • Records show dozens of Nashville firetrucks not running properly

    When a house is on fire or somebody's injured, emergency responders don't have time for delays. But there's a problem firefighters are experiencing that you've never heard before. Some of their own trucks are not starting. The Channel 4 I-Team has found dozens of cases when Nashville firetrucks simply wouldn't start, and many firefighters say the city is on the verge ...


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Movie Review

Swordfish

The four college-age guys who sat in front of me in the theater watching Swordfish loved it--or at least certain parts of it. I could tell which parts they loved most because they would rock back and forth in their chairs, pumping their fists, barely suppressing a yelp of exultation. ...

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  • Shelbyville high-speed chase comes to deadly end

    The Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating a high-speed chase that came to a deadly end over the weekend, and police say as far as they can tell it was all over a speeding ticket. Shelbyville officers say a man was speeding and nearly ran over one of them before colliding with another vehicle. The driver died, and another man was sent to the hospital. Officers say they tried to stop ...

  • Waldens Puddle overrun with injured abandoned animals

    One of the busiest hospitals in Middle Tennessee is now almost overrun with patients. In fact, it's never had more admissions than it does right now. Walden's Puddle in Joelton is the only wildlife hospital in the state and is now bursting with babies in feathers and fur. The facility took in more than 3,000 baby possums, fawns, birds and other animals from 41 counties last year - ...

  • Watertown yearbook honors those who faced death with courage

    As another school year comes to a close, it's once again time for thousands of Middle Tennessee students to receive their yearbooks and have their friends sign them. But at Watertown Elementary and Middle School in Wilson County, this edition of the yearbook was about more than fun and games. It was an early, poignant lesson about life and death. Two people close to the school community ...

  • Lebanon police arrest man suspected in 1997 Nashville death

    Lebanon police on Friday night arrested a suspect accused of killing a man in Nashville 16 years ago. Julian Dubois Clemmons, 37, is accused of killing Daniel Lynn Peak on Forest Ridge Way in Hermitage on March 15, 1997. Peak, who was 18 when he was killed, was involved in a drug dispute when Clemmons shot him, said police. Lebanon police arrested Clemmons at a residence on Toshiba Drive ...

  • Mondays recipe - Aimee Fortneys healthy roasted chocolate bananas

    An easy, healthy dessert does not have to be difficult! Roasting bananas makes them even sweeter, and a little bit of chocolate chips goes a long way, once they are melted! This is a delicious, guilt-free dessert that is easy and healthy, getting you swimsuit ...

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