The Davidson County judge considering a homicide case against Metro Police Officer Andrew Delke is deciding what evidence should be allowed in a critical pre-trial hearing next month.
Nashville Judge Decides What Can Be Used As Evidence In Police Homicide Case
50,000 Words: Nashville Writers Challenge Themselves To Write A Novel In A Month
Listen 50,000 words. That’s what one group of Nashville writers set out to complete over the course of a single month. They took on this challenge as part of National Novel Writing Month. WPLN followed their progress throughout the month of November and found it’s less about the word count, and more about the community.
After Delays And Shifting Cost Estimates, Nashville Police Begin Testing Body Cameras
Listen A small group of Nashville police officers began testing body cameras this week. That’s a milestone, but it follows several delays that have bothered reform advocates.
With No Abortion Clinic Operating In Nashville, Advocates Raise Travel Money
Listen The suspension of abortions at Nashville’s Planned Parenthood, the city’s only remaining clinic, has advocates raising money to help patients travel out of town and offset the cost of a procedure that can cost more than $1,000. They say plans for an abortion fund were already in the works as access in Tennessee has dwindled.
A State Lawmaker’s Comments About Vaccines Provokes An Official Backlash
Listen A Tennessee lawmaker who recently questioned the effectiveness of vaccines has received backlash — and even prompting a state department to weigh in.
Health Care Tops Tennessee Voters’ List Of Concerns, According To Vanderbilt Poll
Listen Tennesseans are growing more worried about the cost of health care, a new poll from Vanderbilt has found, in a development that could have implications for the state’s next leader.
Tennessee Enrollment In Insurance Marketplace Health Plans Lags Behind 2017
Listen Enrollment in health plans on the individual marketplace is lagging nationwide. And in Tennessee, participation is down close to 18 percent compared to the same time last year.
Curious Nashville: Piranhas, Pink Elephants And Other Wild Animal Mysteries Explained
Fans of Curious Nashville have asked us several wonderful and weird questions about animals, and we’ve answered a few. But until now, that reporting hasn’t appeared in our podcast — and some of the facts and quirky details had to be trimmed out of the stories when they aired on the radio.
After Three Decades, Nashville Shakespeare Festival Will Leave Centennial Park
Listen Nashville’s summer Shakespeare festival is moving after three decades in Centennial Park. The festival’s leaders said this week they’ll be taking next year’s performances to a private venue — the nearby OneCity development — after failing to find a way to fix up the facilities where it’s long been staged.
New Poll On Lamar Alexander May Pave Way For Re-Election Bid
Nearly two-thirds of Tennessee Republicans approve of the job Sen. Lamar Alexander is doing, according to a new poll released yesterday, in what could be an early step toward a bid for a third term. Alexander is expected to decide by the end of this year whether to run for re-election again in 2020. Showing […]
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