Davidson County News

The sister of Sahel Kazemi says she was a young woman who wanted to have fun and couldn't have hurt anyone - not herself, nor anyone else.

A proposal to require new Metro employees to live in Davidson County is drawing fire, with critics saying it would shrink the city's recruiting pool, create confusion and take away simple freedoms.

The Davidson County Criminal Court Clerk's office has enhanced its Web site to allow the public to get detailed criminal histories of people in Nashville.

Norma Hand dreads rush-hour traffic at White Bridge Road and Robertson Avenue in West Nashville.

When the Martinez family drives the half-hour from home into Nashville, wife Deanna is behind the wheel every time.

A lawyer for plaintiffs suing to stop a law that allows handguns to be carried in Tennessee bars and restaurants that serve alcohol says the legal action is necessary to maintain a safe environment for patrons.

Robert Jason Burdick, the man police believe has broken into homes and set traps for unwitting victims to methodically attack over a dozen women, will serve 32 years behind bars for his first conviction.

A well-known Nashville restaurant and bar owner plans to sue today to stop the state's new guns-in-bars law from taking effect later this month.

Forty-six years after delivering the keynote speech during the historic 1963 March on Washington, civil rights movement leader and Georgia Congressman, John Lewis, will keynote the 2009 Davidson County Democratic Party Honors Dinner.

University of Tennessee-Knoxville's police chief is moving to Nashville. August Washington will take the same position at Vanderbilt University, selected after a national search.

A Nashville man charged with killing two people has been convicted of first-degree murder in the first of two expected trials.

The federal trial for a former Middle Tennessee teacher accused of providing drugs and alcohol to teenagers and secretly videotaping them having sex in his Belle Meade-area home has been set for Aug.

Timothy and Olivia Agee of Nashville had a baby girl. Sara Grace Agee was born at Baptist Hospital on Friday, May 22, 2009.

The federal government will no longer detain illegal immigrants caught driving without a license in Nashville.

Three teenagers led police on a two-county chase overnight Wednesday. It ended in east Nashville at the intersection of Gallatin Pike and Granada Avenue, but it started in Cheatham County when the car allegedly did an illegal U-turn in front of a police officer in Ashland City.

New reports on the potential for so-called "green" jobs say Nashville could benefit from $185 million in investments and more than 10,000 new jobs a year.

A bid to open charter schools to thousands more students in Tennessee appears to be back on track after House Democrats and the state's biggest teachers union dropped their objections to the bill.

A father and son accused of keeping women as sex slaves faced a preliminary hearing in a Davidson County courtroom Tuesday morning.

The National Weather Service in Nashville has issued a tornado warning for east central Davidson County, extreme north central Rutherford County, southwestern Sumner County and western Wilson County until 3:15 p.m. At 2:32 p.m. National Weather Service Doppler radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado near Lakewood, or 10 ...

Officers believe speed may have caused a crash that claimed the life of a motorcyclist late Wednesday night.