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‘We don’t want people to stop calling.’ This police commander says immigrants’ trust is key to his work

‘We don’t want people to stop calling.’ This police commander says immigrants’ trust is key to his work

Char Daston

February 18, 2025

A man in a police uniform with a shaved head sits behind a microphone in a radio studio.
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Carlos Lara leads Nashville’s Southeast Precinct, where he serves some of Nashville’s largest immigrant communities.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Metro, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Immigration, Metro Nashville Police Department

NashVillager Podcast: Tennessee’s presidents

Cynthia Abrams

February 17, 2025

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Who were Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson and James K. Polk?  

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News

Vandy’s Mikayla Blakes scores NCAA Division I freshman record 55 points in win over Auburn

The Associated Press

February 16, 2025

Vanderbilt’s Mikayla Blakes scored a Division I women’s freshman record 55 points on Sunday in a 98-88 overtime victory over Auburn.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Associated Press, basketball, college sports, Vanderbilt, Women's Basketball

At least 9 people are dead, including 8 in Kentucky, in latest blast of winter weather

Dylan Lovan, AP

February 16, 2025

At least nine people have died in the most recent round of harsh weather to pummel the U.S., including eight people in Kentucky.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Associated Press

An audacious quest: Nashville teen tries to ride every city bus route before graduation

Cynthia Abrams

February 16, 2025

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Thousands of Metro Nashville high schoolers ride the bus for free, but for one senior, the bus has become a passion.

Filed Under: Metro, WPLN News

Tennessee city accused of botching rape investigations agrees to $28M settlement

Jonathan Mattise, AP

February 15, 2025

A Tennessee city has approved a $28 million settlement in a lawsuit that said police deliberately botched investigations into a suspect accused in multiple lawsuits of drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of women. Johnson City commissioners voted Thursday to settle the case.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: discrimination, Johnson City, policing, sexual assault

NashVillager Podcast: A (landfill) romance gone bad

Nina Cardona

February 14, 2025

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How is the trash situation in Rutherford County like a messy breakup? Plus, the local news for February 14, 2025.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Middle Point landfill, Rutherford County

With the nationwide release of ‘MLB,’ Tim Gent and A.B. Eastwood reach another level with Nashville hip-hop

jewly hight

February 14, 2025

The track “MLB” has the type of industry muscle behind it that Nashville hip-hop has rarely seen in the last two decades. Not that it had that sort of importance at the beginning, when it came out of a casual session in 2022.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: A.B. Eastwood, hip hop, Tim Gent

Legends of the ‘Greatest Cave Explorer Ever Known’ live on a century later at Mammoth Cave

Michael J. Collins, WKYU

February 13, 2025

The death of a Kentucky cave explorer a century ago is being remembered as a catalyst for the formation of Mammoth Cave National Park.

Filed Under: History, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, history, Mammoth Cave, National Parks

If Nashville is blocked from using Middle Point landfill, what’s next?

Caroline Eggers

February 13, 2025

The company that owns the landfill that receives most of Nashville’s trash wants to reject it. Here’s what that could mean.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: Duck River, landfill, Middle Point landfill, Recycling

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