Comptroller’s Report Shows Less Theft from Local Governments

There’s been a significant drop in how much money is missing from local governments in Tennessee, but the total amount is still in the six figure range.

The National Folk Festival set to happen in Nashville this September is cancelled. One official blamed what she called “timing problems and acts of God” for sabotaging the event last year, and leaving it in debt. Now the festival hopes to regroup for 2013.

According to the Army Corps of Engineers, the protective concrete embankment wall is now complete.

Nashville-based Aegis Scienfitic does drug testing on everyone from corporate employees to NASCAR drivers and college athletes.

There’s a new hotline for Nashvillians to report waterway debris that still remains from the 2010 flood. At least a dozen such sites have already been identified in Davidson County.

A Texas man has been indicted for calling in a bomb threat last year against a mosque in Murfreesboro. In announcing the indictment Thursday, the U.S. attorney for Middle Tennessee said he would not tolerate attacks on religious freedom.

Tuition at every University of Tennessee campus will cost more this fall. The Board of Trustees voted today to raise fees and tuition by eight percent at UT Knoxville and six percent at Martin and Chattanooga. The UT systems smaller programs and campuses will see increases as low as four percent or as high as ten.

The federal government says Tennesseans are due more than 28 million dollars in refunds from their health insurers. Some will get checks, but most will see their refund in other ways.

A new charter school application from a group turned down by the Metro School board now includes a transportation plan and a proposed location.

The Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention today passed resolutions protesting the treatment of same-sex marriage as a civil rights issue and chastising the federal government for what they consider infringements on religious liberty.