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Nashvilles Mayor's Race Gets Conservative Entrants
Talk radio vet Ralph Bristol and oft-controversial Vanderbilt professor Carol Swain are running for Metro mayor.

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Talk radio vet Ralph Bristol and oft-controversial Vanderbilt professor Carol Swain are running for Metro mayor.

The Frist Center For Visual Arts is now the Frist Art Museum.
So it can withstand the stress of its planned major reconstruction, Interstate 440 will get extensive pothole patching later this month.
As part of Distracted Driving Awareness Month, the Tennessee Highway Patrol is on the hunt for texting drivers.
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, now a Senate candidate in Arizona, spoke in Nashville Saturday.
Interstate 65 near Goodlettsville was shut down Sunday night as police investigated an apparently accidental self-inflicted shooting.
Metro Police are searching for the person who shot a Hermitage teen outside an apartment complex early Monday.
A Weakley County Jail inmate fled the facility on a hot-wired ATV and apparently stole cash and meth from an evidence room.
A Goodlettsville man faces child porn and child rape charges after investigators say they discovered more than 300 images stored online.
Taylor Swift returned to her roots Saturday, playing a surprise set at Nashville's legendary Blueblird Cafe.
Temperatures will climb to near 80 Tuesday and then fall back into 50s and 60s by week's end across Middle Tennessee.
A 20-year-old Nashville faces reckless homicide charges after allegedly accidentally shooting his friend in the head in November.
A four-month-old baby was found submerged in a bathtub in a Madison home Friday night.
Eastbound Interstate 24 was closed for hours Saturday morning after a wreck involving an ambulance.
A Hendersonville 18-year-old is charged with sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl in Florida.
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