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Nashville A Finalist For 2019, 2020 NFL Draft
Nashville is one of five finalist cities to host the National Football League Player Selection Meeting - that's the draft - in 2019 or 2020.

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Nashville is one of five finalist cities to host the National Football League Player Selection Meeting - that's the draft - in 2019 or 2020.

Metro Police said three teenagers crashed a stolen car in East Nashville and attempted stealing another car on Charlotte Pike.
Gov. Bill Haslam announced that Tennessee adults can begin applying for a program offering tuition-free college education.
Two teenagers held a clerk at a Harding Pike Mapco at gunpoint, stealing cash and candy bars, late Thursday.
Threats circulating against La Vergne High School Thursday were "thoroughly investigated" and deemed not credible, school officials said.
Eight children and one woman have died from the flu, the Tennessee Department of Health says.
Forty years after a controversial match between the U.S. and South Africa, the Davis Cup is returning to Nashville this spring.
AG Herbert Slatery asked Tennessee's Supreme Court to set execution dates because of a tightening supply of lethal injection drugs.
In the wake of the deadly shooting at a Florida high school, Williamson County Schools will cancel school Monday to review its safety plans.
Wednesday, a Tennessee Senate committee effectively killed a resolution authorizing the relocation of the bodies of President and Mrs. Polk.
Rain will mar the Midstate through the weekend, though temperatures will be moderate.
Two teenagers were arrested after one of them allegedly pulled a gun on a police officer at a Dickerson Pike gas station Tuesday.
The driver of a car that crashed into an Antioch yard early Thursday ran before police arrived.
A Green Hills salon employee was assaulted and robbed as she took out the trash Wednesday night.
A man is fighting for his life after he was shot in the stomach at the Green Hills Library Wednesday night.
Two men robbed a man at gunpoint near the Vanderbilt University campus Wednesday night.
Metro Police are searching for at least four people who ran from a stolen car in Madison early Thursday.
A former MNPD officer, fired in February 2017 after an inflammatory Facebook post about the Philando Castile shooting, is suing.
Metro Police are searching for a 14-year-old wanted in a shooting that injured a 17-year-old outside Pearl-Cohn High School Friday.
A woman's purse was taken at gunpoint after she was hit from behind on Granny White Pike Monday.