Brentwood Republican Marsha Blackburn has filed bills calling for across-the-board spending cuts each year since she took her place in the House of Representatives in 2003. And every year, they’ve languished without any Congressional action.

Tennessee Guardsmen continue to return home early from Iraq. Units from Ashland City and Sweetwater arrive this afternoon to the guard training center in Smyrna.

Home sales in the Nashville area rose again in June for the ninth consecutive month.

Nashville’s Fisk University helped develop crystals that are now being used to detect radiation in the country’s ports. On Thursday, the technology was recognized as one of the 100 most useful developments in the past year.

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean is saying “no” to helping pay for flood repairs to the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and “yes” to fixing up the Grand Ole Opry House. He plans to file legislation with the Metro Council Friday.

The state of Tennessee is looking to set a date to execute a man on death row.

Vanderbilt University is broadening an effort to collect the wartime stories of its alumnae.

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean is reprioritizing the building projects he wants to get started this year. The mayor pulled his capital budget plan days after he submitted it to the Metro Council in late April.

Nashville has continued to see more and more health care jobs, even through the economic downturn. A new study from MTSU’s Business and Economic Research Center puts the industry’s total impact at $30 billion. That’s an increase of 60 percent since 2004.

Before their careers begin, science teachers spend hours in college and university laboratories, learning the ins and outs of how the world works.