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Nashville Wow House: A California Touch
Built in 1963 and recently renovated, a Forest Hills home brings some of the Golden State to Davidson County.

Patch editor covering Nashville and environs. Formerly of the Nashville Scene, Nashville Post, Nashville City Paper and Lebanon Democrat. Navy vet, anglophile, sports appreciator, dad culture celebrator. Generalist. I'm at james.lind@patch.com (keeping it formal) and on Twitter at @jrlind
Built in 1963 and recently renovated, a Forest Hills home brings some of the Golden State to Davidson County.

It's 88 acres near Leiper's Fork with two homes, all for just $6.1 million.
The former Murray Lane home of late country songwriter Marijohn Wilkin is up for sale.
A drunken man tried strangling and punching a Metro policeman who tried arresting him at an East Nashville park, according to an affidavit.
A man held up at an Antioch gas station chased his robbers, who then shot at him on the interstate, police say.
A man found in a car with a gunshot wound to his arm said his friend accidentally shot him late Sunday.
A man told police he was shot Sunday by a man who had a shotgun hidden inside a guitar case.
A man who thought he was paying $40 for sex was instead robbed and assaulted, Metro Police say.
Metro Police said a toddler who went missing in Antioch overnight is with his biological father.
As Father's Day winds up, enjoy some dad and kid (and grandad and grandkid) photos from Middle Tennessee.
There are hundreds of new jobs this week on the Middle Tennessee Patch jobs board.
Middle Tennessee's pattern of hot temperatures with the occasional storm chance continues this week.
A woman allegedly swallowed heroin, stuffed more in her navel, needed a Narcan revival and assaulted a Metro policeman.
Metro Police say two women carjacked and kidnapped another, then stole $1,200 in merchandise in Hermitage, all with kids alongside.
A 27-year-old man was shot in the leg in what police believe was a home invasion south of downtown Nashville late Saturday.
The mother of an 18-year-old accused of murder is charged with hiding his car after the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old.
Antonio Bender, a member of the Rolling 60s Crips, will spend a dozen years behind bars after shooting at two Metro Police officers.
ATM Skimmer Found At Smyrna Gas Station
Tennessee's attorney general opines that the state's texting-while-driving ban could apply in certain schools' pick-up lines.
A 21-year-old is accused of selling cocaine near a Nashville school while pushing a 6-month-old in a stroller and carrying a stolen gun.