Audit Finds District Attorney Used Seized Vehicles, Guns

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.

Governor Bill Haslam says he’s nowhere close to endorsing a candidate for the Republican nomination in next year’s presidential race. Haslam says maybe half the candidates have reached out for his support, but he’s not about to choose one.

The remains of as many as 11 soldiers thought to be from Tennessee have been found in Monterrey, Mexico. A developer ran across their shallow graves where they had been buried since the Mexican-American War. Local historians are now trying to fly them home.

New research conducted in part at Vanderbilt sheds light on the causes of Multiple Sclerosis. The findings are in the new issue of Nature.