DUI special session deemed a ‘step backward’
Tweet By Eric Schelzig, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Republican Gov. Bill Haslam’s administration is looking to turn back the clock on an underage drunken driving law that threatened to cost...
View ArticleKoch-sponsored forum talks TN criminal justice reform
Tweet Conservatives gathered in Nashville Wednesday for wine, hors d’oeuvres and conversation over criminal justice reform, reports The Tennessean. They discussed topics ranging from curbing court...
View ArticleAP story on Nashville, Memphis marijuana ordinances
Tweet By Adrian Sainz, Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Political leaders in Tennessee’s two largest cities are taking steps toward marijuana decriminalization with ordinances that would allow police...
View ArticleNew coalition set up to push ‘criminal justice reform’
Tweet Press release from Tennessee Coalition for Sensible Justice NASHVILLE – Leaders from advocacy, business and social service groups with constituents across the state came together today to launch...
View ArticleAndy Miller company settles Florida fraud claim for $7.75M
Tweet The wealthy Republican donor who took campaign money as investments from now-expelled lawmaker Jeremy Durham has agreed to pay $7.75 million to settle allegations he and his brother defrauded a...
View ArticleNashville council approves pot ordinance 35-3
Tweet Nashville on Tuesday became the first city in Tennessee to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana and Memphis likely will become the second in two weeks. according to the Commercial Appeal....
View ArticleHamblen County Democratic chair charged with theft
Tweet The Hamblen County Democratic Party chairman has been charged with stealing files from the county’s Circuit Court office, reports the Morristown Citizen-Tribune. Timothy Wayne Woodard, 27,...
View ArticleRutherford sheriff, already facing corruption trial, accused of domestic assault
Tweet Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold, already facing trial on corruption charges, has now been accused of a domestic violence assaylt on his wife, reports the Daily News Journal. “The...
View ArticleAthens workplace killer had TN handgun permit
Tweet ATHENS, Tenn. (AP) — A man who fatally shot two supervisors and then killed himself at an electrical components plant in eastern Tennessee had a state-issued permit to carry handguns in public,...
View ArticleNo charges in Memphis police shooting black man
Tweet By Adrian Sainz, Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A white Memphis police officer won’t face federal civil rights charges in the shooting death of a 19-year-old black man, the federal government...
View ArticleParole board rejects exoneration of McKinney
Tweet The state Board of Parole has voted against recommending exoneration of a Wilson County man who served 31 years in prison on a rape and burglary conviction before DNA evidence cleared him of the...
View ArticleJudge revokes bond, sends Rutherford sheriff to jail
Tweet A federal magistrate Wednesday revoked bond for Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold Wednesday and ordered him to jail because of new domestic assault charges brought while he is awaiting...
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