Quaprotek To Open West Tennessee Plant

Governor Bill Haslam was in West Tennessee today to announce the opening of auto supplier.

Tennessee Congressman Diane Black is defending her Tea Party credentials, one day after about fifty members of the movement protested outside her Murfreesboro office. The group said they’re frustrated with Black for voting to raise the debt ceiling.

While across the country just one in four high school graduates taking the ACT is prepared for college, the figure is more like one in seven here in Tennessee. The state is just one spot from the very bottom when it comes to college-readiness.

The District Attorney from Huntington used confiscated sports cars and weapons as his own, according to an audit released by the state comptroller Wednesday. He also allowed drug helicopters to fly dignitaries to high school football games.

Last night Nashville’s metro council passed a resolution honoring a group of student protestors. The high-schoolers rallied this spring against the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which passed the state Senate but not the House.

Nashville has a new criminal court clerk to replace the ousted David Torrence, who was pushed to resign this summer after being revealed to only work three days a week. Torrence’s replacement, former Vice Mayor Howard Gentry, handily won a majority vote in the metro council Tuesday night, and says he wants to restore trust to the office.

About 50 members of the Tea Party movement lined up outside the Murfreesboro office of U.S. Representative Diane Black yesterday, complaining they had been ignored when they tried to oppose raising the nation’s debt ceiling.

Metro Nashville is loosening some of its security policies toward religious head coverings. The American Civil Liberties Union pushed for the changes.

A state wildlife management area that closed last week because of dangerous vandalism says it’s hoping to reopen by the end of the month, in time for squirrel-hunting season.

Two men responsible for a meth-related explosion in the parking lot of a Nashville Wal-Mart have been sentenced to more than seven years in prison. Both pleaded guilty to their roles in a methamphetamine manufacturing conspiracy.