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A bill to change how dangerous people are disarmed in TN is pushed to 2026 after NRA opposition

By Paige Pfleger

April 13, 2025

A Republican-backed bill to alter Tennessee’s firearms dispossession form was pushed to 2026 after opposition from the National Rifle Association.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, WPLN News

Nashville area sees 161 tornado, thunderstorm and flash flood warnings in two weeks

By Caroline Eggers

April 12, 2025

In the first two weeks of April, Middle Tennesseans received over 160 warnings for flash floods, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes.

Filed Under: Environment, WPLN News Tagged With: flood, Housing, severe weather, sinkhole, tornado

NashVillager Podcast: Funding Nashville’s public health

By Nina Cardona

April 11, 2025

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What happens to public health in a funding pinch? Plus, the local news for April 11, 2025.

Filed Under: History, NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Metro Government, Metro Public Health

Tennessee lawmakers are not changing the current school threats law. They’re adding a new one.

By Paige Pfleger

April 11, 2025

A bill moving through the Tennessee state capitol would create a new felony offense for people who make threats at school.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Disability Rights Tennessee, Jack Johnson, juvenile justice, William Lamberth, Zoe Jamail

Death row lawyers ask governor for another execution moratorium while courts review protocol

By Catherine Sweeney

April 10, 2025

Attorneys for nine death row inmates argue the state’s new lethal injection protocol contains even fewer protections than the plan found deficient in 2022.

Filed Under: Criminal Justice, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, death penalty, death row, Gov. Bill Lee, lethal injection, Oscar Smith, Tennessee Department of Correction

A group of adults failed the TCAP test. TN third graders can be held back for doing the same.

By Camellia Burris

April 10, 2025

Third graders who don't score well enough on the TCAP may be held back. But some adults have struggled passing the exam.

TCAP testing begins Monday. For Tennessee third graders and their families, the standardized test comes with a lot of pressure.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: literacy, Metro School Board, summer programs, TCAP, third grade retention

How Nashville is addressing overdoses in its booming tourism district

By Catherine Sweeney

April 10, 2025

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Business owners and city officials in Nashville have implemented a program that uses an opioid reversal kit created in West Virginia to bolster harm reduction efforts in the city’s tourism district.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Acme, Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, drug overdose, harm reduction, Lower Broadway, Metro Nashville Police Department, naloxone, Narcan, tourism

Tennessee Senate passes measure to challenge federal education rights for undocumented students

By Marianna Bacallao

April 10, 2025

A measure to challenge the right to an education for undocumented students narrowly passed the Tennessee Senate, 19-13, to the outrage of protesters inside and outside of the chamber.

Filed Under: Education, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 114th Tennessee General Assembly, Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, Bo Watson, immigrants, Immigration, Supreme Court, tnleg, tnpol, U.S. Supreme Court, undocumented students

NashVillager Podcast: Protesting in support of immigrants

By Nina Cardona

April 10, 2025

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How are Tennessee activists becoming more vocal with their support for immigrants? Plus, the local news for April 10, 2025.

Filed Under: Education, History, NashVillager Podcast, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Immigration

As Grand Ole Opry turns 100, it’s the performers who keep it alive — and evolving

By Jewly Hight

April 10, 2025

At the century mark, a big part of what’s kept the Grand Ole Opry going are the many generations and styles of performers who have been part of the show.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, comedy, country music, Danae Hays, Grand Ole Opry, history, John Conlee, Opry 100, TikTok

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