Nashville Council Turns Up Heat On $4.4M Homeless Housing Tab
Metro Nashville councilors are turning up the pressure on city officials, demanding a clear paper trail for $4.4 million meant to stabilize permanent supportive housing and rapid rehousing programs. At a recent council meeting, public commenters alleged that some of the money was spent without proper authorization...
Speaker Sexton Slips $10 Million ALS Windfall for Vanderbilt Lab Into State Budget
House Speaker Cameron Sexton has tucked a $10 million earmark for Vanderbilt’s ALS Research Center into a proposed state budget amendment, setting up a potential windfall for the young center’s funding. The money would help scale patient-focused studies and lab work aimed at earlier detection and new therapies....
Dog alerts child after fire breaks out at home in Madison, officials say
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A child and dog were able to escape after a house fire erupted at a home in Madison on Monday afternoon. The fire, which is under investigation, started on the back side of the home located at 869 Old Hickory Boulevard. A dog and a child...
VIDEO: Officer moves Waymo after it blocks Broadway intersection
A local driver captured the moment a self-driving Waymo vehicle stopped in the middle of a busy Broadway intersection this weekend.
23-year-old Fisk University graduate killed by wrong-way driver fleeing Nashville police
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A recent Fisk University graduate was killed after being hit by a wrong-way driver fleeing police last week. Oluwalayomi “Layo” Fadero, 23, died in the crash. The person accused of causing the fatal crash, Ray Eugene Padgett, was arrested and faces multiple felonies, including homicide. He...
‘I’m going against my family by coming here’ – Vols transfer addition made some...
Tennessee Vols transfer addition Jordan Norman upset some family members with his decision to transfer from Tulane to UT. It's not that they wanted him to stay at Tulane, it's that they didn't want him to transfer to Tennessee. Norman, a redshirt junior who started his career at South Alabama, is ...
Child shot in head at Hopkinsville home, flown to Nashville hospital
HOPKINSVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - An investigation is underway into a shooting that left a child seriously injured in Hopkinsville on Monday night. According to the Hopkinsville Fire Department, fire and medical personnel, along with officers from the Hopkinsville Police Department, responded to a home in the 1000 block...
Why Nashville’s new county historian visits a lynching site each year
Learotha Williams stands beneath a grizzled tree off Old Burkitt Road in Cane Ridge, eyes shaded by his sunglasses on a quiet March afternoon. The tree’s trunk is hollowed out nearly entirely. It’s lost all but one of its branches, its remaining limbs twisting up toward the sky like a gnarled hand. The wooded area it...
M/I Homes Aims To Pack 182 New Homes Into Antioch
Antioch could be in line for a fresh wave of for-sale housing, as national builder M/I Homes moves to plant roughly 182 homes in southeast Nashville. Newly filed plans show a sizable subdivision in the works, a proposal local coverage has described as a 100-plus-home project, and one of the larger single-builder...
Demolition of RiverGate Mall to begin Tuesday
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - What is left of the RiverGate Mall will soon be gone. On Tuesday, Mayor Freddie O’Connell will visit the site for the demolition, which will mark the start of the RiverGate development, a multi-phase, mixed-use project. Merus announced plans to redevelop the 57-acre RiverGate Mall...
