Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee says an influx of additional federal law enforcement agents will focus on crime in Memphis starting next week.
NashVillager Podcast: More autopsies, more crime labs
Can Tennessee labs handle all the evidence and autopsies in a growing region? Plus, the local news for September 24, 2025.
Former Tennessee House speaker sentenced to 3 years in prison in legislative mail scheme
A former Tennessee House speaker has received a three-year prison sentence over a scheme with a onetime aide to win taxpayer-funded mail business from lawmakers after they left their top leadership roles due to scandals.
Deadly week for motorcyclists and pedestrians in Nashville
Crashes in the past week have killed six motorcyclists in Nashville. Metro police provided new details Tuesday after two more riders who were hospitalized over the weekend died from their injuries.
Immigrant detainees begin arriving at former prison in rural Tennessee town
A company says detainees have started arriving at a former Tennessee prison that’s been turned into a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. CoreCivic Inc. said it has begun receiving detainees at the West Tennessee Detention Facility in rural Mason, located northeast of Memphis.
Autopsy sheds light on Byron Black’s painful execution
For the first time since Tennessee adopted a new lethal injection protocol, a post-execution autopsy has been released. It shows that Byron Black developed pulmonary edema — a form of lung damage.
WPLN discusses: Unanswered medical questions after execution of Byron Black
Byron Black’s legal team is still trying to figure out what caused the pain he displayed during his execution.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from federal custody pending criminal trial
The case of Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man originally from El Salvador, raised basic questions of due process in Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants after he was arrested and sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, violating a U.S. immigration judge’s 2019 order prohibiting his deportation to his home country.
Abrego Garcia’s lawyers want smuggling charges dismissed on grounds of ‘vindictive prosecution’
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia asked a federal judge to dismiss a human smuggling case against him. Defense attorneys say the government indicted the construction worker to punish him for challenging his removal from the United States.
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