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Brentwood-based LifePoint Hospitals is getting the fanfare of a corporate relocation for moving three miles down the road. Tuesday Mayor Karl Dean announced at a press conference the hospital chain will consolidate its three Williamson County offices into one building just inside the Nashville city limits.

Nashville-based Gibson Guitar has been forced to get creative in order to keep creaking out guitars after federal agents seized exotic hardwood from the company. The improvised instruments are just starting to hit the market.

Listen Now:   There’s a growing segment of consumers in Nashville and around the country asking, “who needs a bank when you’ve got Walmart?”

A Democrat in Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District announced today he’d take on Republican freshman Scott Desjarlais, who was elected to Congress last year.

A Canadian investor and reality TV star has become a minority owner of the Nashville Predators. The hockey franchise announced Wednesday that Brett Wilson has purchased a five percent stake in the team.

The University of the South is continuing to buck the trend of rising college tuition. A news release from Sewanee says current students will pay the same amount for tuition and fees next year.

Environmentalists and some in the timber industry are accusing Nashville-area congressmen of trying to “gut” the Lacey Act. The century-old environmental law is at the heart of an ongoing federal investigation into Gibson Guitar.

Wednesday small business owners from Tennessee are in Washington helping sell a proposal that would get online retailers collecting sales tax.

Last year the state legislature approved a new funding scheme for higher education meant to reward schools that move students efficiently toward a degree. Now state-run schools are asking for the reward money, even as they’re supposed to proposed cuts to their own budgets.

The state’s Department of Mental Health is using continued budget pressure as justification for restructuring the agency. The plan moves away from state-run psychiatric institutions, and the first to go is in Knoxville.