Police reducing rape kit backlog
Tweet MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Memphis police have opened a new $1 million sexual assault evidence storage facility. The climate-controlled facility in Frayser can hold about 50,400 evidence kits. The...
View ArticleAnonymous 2015 tips uncovered $1.1M in wrongdoing
Tweet News release from state comptroller’s office The Tennessee Comptroller’s Fraud, Waste and Abuse Hotline is marking a record achievement in its effort to help uncover the misuse of government...
View ArticleTN becomes first state with animal abuse registry
Tweet GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee is set to become the first state to release a registry that will consist of the names of people convicted of having intentionally abused animals. Beginning...
View ArticlePharmacy charged meds for dead to TennCare
Tweet NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Nashville company will pay as much as $7.8 million in a settlement related to accusations that it charged Medicare and TennCare for medications for dead patients. The...
View ArticleTwo indicted for stealing from law enforcement group
Tweet A White County grand jury has indicted two men – one a Washington County deputy sheriff and the other a retire Sparta policeman — on charges of stealing from a non-profit organization devoted to...
View ArticleTBI: $60K stolen from Disabled Veterans
Tweet COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a Byrdstown man has been charged with stealing thousands of dollars from a Disabled American Veterans fund. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says...
View ArticleArmstrong trial delayed; battle lines drawn
Tweet State Rep. Joe Armstrong’s trial on tax evasion charges, which was scheduled for Feb. 23, has been postponed for six months, reports the News Sentinel. But the battle lines to be drawn for...
View ArticleLife sentence for 16-year-old inspires Sparks bill
Tweet State Rep. Mike Sparks, inspired by reporting on a 16-year-old Nashville girl sentenced to life in prison after killing a man in 2004, is sponsoring a bill on police dealings with juvenile crime...
View ArticleHaslam touts latest (and previous) ‘public safety’ efforts
Tweet News release from the governor’s office MEMPHIS – Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam today announced the next phase of his administration’s multi-year, comprehensive action plan to help make Tennessee...
View ArticleJudge overturns conviction under new TN sex trafficking law
Tweet A Nashville judge has overturned the conviction and 22-year prison sentence for a man whose case was championed by prosecutors as the first under the state’s current sex trafficking law, reports...
View ArticleBill reducing marijuana penalties clears committee
Tweet A Republican-sponsored bill that would make three or more convictions for simple possession or casual exchange of marijuana a misdemeanor rather than a felony passed a key hurdle on Tuesday,...
View ArticleFormer Nashville councilman indicted for witness coercion
Tweet Loniel Greene, recently resigned from his seat on the Nashville Metro Council, was indicted Friday on a felony charge of coercion of a witness connected to his cousin’s domestic violence case,...
View ArticleFour sentenced for Shelby County jail drug smuggling
Tweet MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Prosecutors say four former sheriff’s employees have been sentenced to federal prison in a scheme to smuggle what they thought were OxyContin pills in the Shelby County...
View ArticleIndictment of Pilot Flying J ex-president, 7 others, unsealed
Tweet From the News Sentinel: After approving an expansion of scheme to defraud small trucking companies of promised diesel fuel rebates, former Pilot Flying J President Mark Hazelwood made a...
View ArticleShots fired at sheriff’s home
Tweet MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Rutherford County Sheriff Robert Arnold and his family are uninjured after shots were fired outside their Murfreesboro home. Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Lisa...
View Article‘Christian party’ presidential candidate arrested
Tweet Hawkins County’s Richard “Darrell” Trigg, who has declared himself an independent candidate for president with the goal of establishing a new “Christian Party,” is in trouble with the law again...
View ArticleMayor indicted for vote buying in Hancock County
Tweet News release from Tennessee Bureau of Investigation JOHNSON CITY – Special Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have obtained indictments for an elected official and an associate in...
View ArticleAudit uncovers $21K theft in Jefferson County
Tweet News release from comptroller’s office The Comptroller’s annual audit of Jefferson County government, released today, includes three findings, one of which describes a $21,752 theft from the...
View ArticleTwo ‘stalking’ bills progressing
Tweet Two bills that address stalking laws in Tennessee took center stage on Capitol Hill while the emotional trial surrounding TV personality Erin Andrews continued in Nashville, reports WTVF TV....
View ArticleAP’s TN-oriented story on probation privatization
Tweet By Adam Geller and Sharon Cohen, AP National Writers MURFREESBORO, Tennessee — Outside the $200-a-week motel room that Steven Gibbs and his family call home, the afternoon sun sparkled. Inside,...
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