‘Ghost employee’ gets 30 days in jail for $200K theft
A judge on Friday ordered a “ghost employee” of the Knox County Trustee’s Office to serve 30 days in jail for stealing nearly $200,000 from taxpayers, reports the News Sentinel. Knox County Criminal...
View ArticleUT reports 75 cases of sexual assault over four-year period
Reports of sexual assault involving University of Tennessee students jumped by 80 percent in the space of a year from 2013 to 2014, reports the News Sentinel. The revelation came Wednesday as the...
View ArticleFormer Shelby commissioner may lose pension after plea on falsifying election...
Former Shelby County commissioner Henri Brooks could lose her county pension after entering a plea last week on charges that she falsified election documents, reports The Commercial Appeal. Brooks...
View ArticleHamblen waste system director accused of stealing $200K
MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (AP) — The former director of the Hamblen County-Morristown Solid Waste System is accused of stealing more than $200,000 from the agency. According to a news release from the...
View ArticleVandals use graffiti to crticize Gardenhire’s Insure TN vote
Vandals defaced state Sen. Todd Gardenhire’s Chattanooga office on Tuesday with slogans and drawings written in chalk that criticie his stance on healthcare, reports the Times-Free Press. Gardenhire...
View ArticleFBI investigating TDOT contracts, raids road company offices
The FBI raided the offices of a Williamson County construction company as part of an ongoing investigation into nine Tennessee Department of Transportation and two Metro Nashville Airport Authority...
View ArticleTBI reports ‘Crime on Campus’ down overall last year; rape increased
News release from Tennessee Bureau of Investigation: NASHVILLE – Today, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation released to the public its 2014 ‘Crime on Campus’ report. The annual study compiles...
View ArticleSterilization part of plea bargains in some Nashville cases
By Shelia Burke, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nashville prosecutors have made sterilization of women part of plea negotiations at least four times in the past five years, and the district...
View ArticleTwo former sheriff’s deputies indicted, arrested
News release from Tennessee Bureau of Investigation: COOKEVILLE – An investigation by Special Agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has resulted in the indictment and arrest of two former...
View ArticleSupremes rule right to pre-trail bail can be revoked
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The state constitution guarantees the right to bail, but it’s not absolute, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The state’s highest court said the right to pretrial bail...
View Article‘Neighborhood Protection Act’ clears General Assembly
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A proposal that would help homeowner associations or neighborhood watch groups keep repeat offenders out of their communities is headed to the governor for his consideration....
View ArticleApproved bill allows jurors to view murder victim photos
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee legislature has passed a bill that would allow jurors to see photographs of murder victims when they were still alive. Prosecutors and victims’ rights advocates...
View ArticleTBI reports TN crime down overall last year; murders up
News release from Tennessee Bureau of Investigation: NASHVILLE – Today, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation released its 2014 ‘Crime in Tennessee’ report. The annual study compiles data reported from...
View ArticleComptroller reports utility clerk stole $11,356 in water bill payments
News release from state comptroller’s office: A special investigation by the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office has found that Lisa Cipy, a former clerk with the Watauga River Regional Water...
View ArticleReward offered in 1997 double murder raised to $21K
JASPER, Tenn. (AP) — The reward offered in a Tennessee cold case has been increased to $21,000. WRCB-TV (http://bit.ly/1EU95Qh) reports in March, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam offered a $10,000 reward...
View ArticleDCS employee charged with statutory rape of 15-year-old
A 56-year-old Knoxville woman is accused of molesting her boyfriend’s teenage son while working as a paralegal for a state agency tasked with protecting children, reports the News Sentinel. Mary Lisa...
View ArticleRep. Butt’s son charged with providing alcohol to a minor
Maury County Sheriff Bucky Rowland says state Rep. Sheila Butt’s son, Cliff, was arrested Thursday on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for buying alcohol for an underage student,...
View ArticleKnox school official accused of cheating on travel expenses
News release from state comptroller’s office: A special investigation by the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office has revealed that former Knox County Schools nutrition director Jon Dickl used a...
View ArticleChattanooga returns $300K grant to federal government
Chattanooga officials are returning a $300,000 anti-gang grant from the federal government, reports the Times-Free Press. (T)hey’re blaming the loss of funds on the unexpected closure of the Ochs...
View ArticleLawsuit contends TN election officials wrongfully failing to restore felon...
A lawsuit contends that Tennessee election officials are ignoring court orders to restore voting rights for former felons, reports The Huffington Post. Nashville-area attorney Elizabeth R. McClellan...
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