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• Standoff situation near MTSU ends peacefully

  29-01-2015 23:41
  
  Police said a student opened fire at officers during a standoff near Middle Tennessee State University on Monday.
  
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• Training grenades donated to Murfreesboro Goodwill

  29-01-2015 23:11
  
  Workers at a Goodwill store in Murfreesboro were shocked when they found what appeared to be donated grenades.
  
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• Perry County Schools closed due to illness

  29-01-2015 22:51
  
  Perry County Schools will be closed Friday and Monday due to illness. School officials said the district is dealing with mostly flu and strep throat.
  
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• Nashville gas station worker fights back against robbers

  29-01-2015 22:37
  
  As the gunmen were reportedly stealing from the cash register at the Shell station on Gallatin Pike at Briley Parkway, the worker came out of a back room with a gun and started firing.
  
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• Jack White Reforms The Raconteurs At Nashville Show

  29-01-2015 21:52
  
  Jack White stunned fans in his adopted Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday night when he reunited his band Raconteurs during a solo show at Bridgestone Arena. Fans thought they'd witnessed all the highlights when Country Music Hall of Fame member Loretta Lynn stepped out to support her pal, but when White returned to the stage after a brief intermission in his set, he was surrounded by Raconteurs Brendan Benson and Jack Lawrence, while the rocker's touring drummer Daru Jones filled in for the depa
  
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• Jack White Reunites The Raconteurs at Nashville Concert

  29-01-2015 21:52
  
  Jack White performed at the Bridestone Arena in his adopted home of Nashville, Tennessee on Wednesday night, and he brought some old friends along with him. According to Rolling Stone , after a brief intermission, White brought out the members of his first post- White Stripes band, The Raconteurs .
  
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• Nashville firefighters training counterparts in Guatemala

  29-01-2015 21:33
  Nashville firefighters are spearheading a new program to help train firefighters in under-privileged countries.
  
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• Surveillance video leads to arrest of burglary suspects

  29-01-2015 21:13
  
  Mt. Juliet detectives used YouTube, Facebook and some anonymous tips to track down two people who allegedly broke into a man's car.
  
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• $2.5 million spent on dead Amp project

  29-01-2015 20:08
  
  A Metro Council member says $2.5 million of the $7.5 million earmarked for Amp planning, design and construction has already been spent.
  
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• Coins valued at $100K stolen from Murfreesboro home

  29-01-2015 19:41
  
  The complainant said the crook took the coins from a stand-up safe inside the garage on Wednesday.
  
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• Detective's gun, bulletproof vest stolen in Murfreesboro

  29-01-2015 19:31
  
  A Franklin County sheriff's detective had his gun and bulletproof vest stolen from his car in Murfreesboro.
  
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• Shelbyville police looking for 'armed and dangerous' man

  29-01-2015 19:19
  
  Trevakias Vondez Rankins is wanted on charges of aggravated burglary and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent felony.
  
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• Grand opening held for new library branch in Bellevue

  29-01-2015 19:02
  
  The new branch, located next to Bellevue Middle School on Baugh Road, is five times larger than the old space.
  
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• Robertson Co. man charged with cruelty to animals

  29-01-2015 18:51
  
  Jeremy Roberts is in jail on a $5,000 bond, charged with one count of cruelty to animals.
  
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• Periscope Pitch at the Enterpreneur Center Tonight

  29-01-2015 18:44
  
  Last year, the Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville launched Periscope , an intensive six-week training program integrating entrepreneurial principles to help working artists execute their vision. This program is one of the many reasons that Nashville ranks No.
  
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• Comcast changes customer name to A-hole on bill

  29-01-2015 18:13
  Comcast is notorious for poor customer service, but this latest blunder might be a new low.
  
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• Police: Woman left 5 children home alone

  29-01-2015 17:44
  
  A 7-year-old called 911 on Tuesday, and police say they found five children when they arrived at the home.
  
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• Police: 5 children left home alone in disgusting conditions

  29-01-2015 16:29
  
  A 7-year-old called 911 on Tuesday, and police say they found five children when they arrived at the home.
  
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• Another bill targets Nashville's payday lenders

  29-01-2015 14:45
  
  Nashville-area payday lenders are again in the sights of legislation pending before Metro Council.
  
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• State Agriculture Department accepting hemp applications

  29-01-2015 14:04
  
  Tennessee's Department of Agriculture says it is accepting applications from those interested in growing industrial hemp.
  
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• Haslam wrapping up statewide Insure Tennessee tour Thursday

  29-01-2015 14:02
  
  Republican Gov. Bill Haslam is wrapping up his statewide tour on Thursday seeking to drum up support for his Insure Tennessee proposal.
  
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• Group to examine Tennessee sentencing laws, recidivism

  29-01-2015 14:01
  
  A task force formed by Gov. Bill Haslam meets Thursday in Nashville to examine Tennessee's sentencing structure and examine ways to reduce the state's high recidivism rate.
  
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• 3 arrested in drug bust near East Nashville school

  29-01-2015 13:56
  
  Officers began investigating the home, which is less than 1,000 feet from the Nashville Classical Charter School, after neighbors reported drug trafficking to police.
  
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• 2 arrested after mobile meth lab found in car on I-24

  29-01-2015 13:48
  
  La Vergne police said they stopped the car for expired tags on Interstate 24 at Waldron Road.
  
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• Nashville gas station owner fights back against robbers

  29-01-2015 13:38
  
  A gas station owner and a pair of robbers got into a shootout at a Nashville convenience store overnight.
  
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• Police: Woman arrested after driving wrong way on I-65

  29-01-2015 13:25
  
  A woman was arrested for allegedly driving the wrong way down a busy interstate. Police say the whole thing started on Interstate 65 near Shelby Avenue.
  
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• How Doug Seegers went from the Nashville Rescue Mission to headlining ...

  29-01-2015 12:40
  On one side of a high wooden fence on Lafayette Street sits the Nashville Rescue Mission, temporary shelter to hundreds of homeless men, women and children. On the other is City Winery Nashville, the sleek, expansive new wine-bar-cum-listening-room.
  
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• All aboard MH370 officially declared lost due to accident

  29-01-2015 12:18
  
  The loss of the Malaysian plane has been declared an accident, though authorities emphasized the search will continue.
  
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• 41A Bypass reopens after fatal crash in Clarksville

  29-01-2015 12:08
  
  A driver was killed in a crash at the 41A Bypass and Glendale Drive in Clarksville on Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• City providing temporary Park & Ride for RTA after lease lost

  29-01-2015 10:30
  
  After several La Vergne residents nearly lost the only transportation available to them, the city has teamed up with the Regional Transportation Authority to open a temporary Park and Ride lot at Veterans Memorial Park. Beginning on Monday, February 2, riders will be using a new lot located in Veterans Memorial Park at 115 Floyd Mayfield Drive.
  
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• Internet wants to know #WhoShoveledTheFinishLine during Boston blizzard

  29-01-2015 06:27
  
  Boston Police asked for the public's help identifying the man, captured on a photo that circulated around the internet.
  
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• BlueCross BlueShield extends MissionPoint partnership

  29-01-2015 06:20
  
  In a vote of confidence in MissionPoint Health Partners' accountable care organization model, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has extended its partnership with the Nashville-based group through 2020.
  
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• Team behind popular craft cocktail bar eyes second Nashville venture

  29-01-2015 02:00
  
  A new bar and restaurant is slated for a vacant spot in Edgehill Village. Sisters Alexis and Britt Soler have plans to open a new concept called Old Glory in a roughly 2,000-square-foot space behind Taco Mamacita.
  
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• 'Maker Space' Allows Kids To Innovate, Learn In The Hospital

  29-01-2015 02:00
  
  All around the country, computer hackers, artists, and other do-it-yourselfers are meeting up in "maker spaces," to share tools and build cool stuff together, such as robots or musical instruments. Maker spaces are popping up in all sorts of places: school auditoriums, libraries, under tents at community festivals , and now, even at the hospital.
  
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• Couple rescues child walking along highway

  29-01-2015 01:42
  
  A Henry County mother said she was horrified to hear her 5-year-old son was spotted along a highway after walking out of school.
  
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• Nurse says life of tanning gave her cancer

  29-01-2015 01:10
  A newly introduced law would hit the tanning business with the maximum amount of taxes, and a 24-year-old nurse supports that idea.
  
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• Questions remain in Vanderbilt rape case

  29-01-2015 00:55
  
  A day after the verdicts were handed down in the Vanderbilt rape case, there are still many unanswered questions.
  
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• Jury foreman describes Vanderbilt rape trial process

  29-01-2015 00:28
  
  The foreman of the jury in the Vanderbilt rape trial said reaching a verdict in the case against Brandon Vandenburg and Cory Batey was a smooth process.
  
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• Metro Schools says 5 priority schools will get new principals

  29-01-2015 00:08
  
  Metro Schools announced Wednesday that five of the 12 priority schools will get new principals in the 2015-16 school year.
  
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