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Domestic Violence Incidents Rise With Temperature

May 24, 2012 at 02:30 pm by bryan

Domestic violence issues increase with the temperatures. Murfreesboro Police are investigating an alleged attack at a local motel. A Belize Court couple allegedly tangled.... Read More

Joe Martin Jackson arrested for Wednesday's MAPCO robbery

May 24, 2012 at 02:00 pm by bryan

Thanks to alert citizens, Murfreesboro Police arrested 22-year old Joe Martin Jackson in connection with a 9:00 o'clock Wednesday (5/23/2012) morning robbery at MAPCO on Memor.... Read More

A Field Is Where The Old Hospital Once Stood

May 24, 2012 at 01:10 pm by bryan

It's been over two and a half years since Middle Tennessee Medical Center moved into the new hospital on Medical Center Parkway. The owners made a huge investment in maintaini.... Read More

Those Who Made Supreme Scarifice For Country Honored

May 24, 2012 at 11:10 am by bryan

With the three-day Memorial Day weekend, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and First Lady Crissy Haslam joined Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs Commissioner Many-Bea.... Read More

Houseboat Raffle for Cancer Patient

May 24, 2012 at 10:22 am by bryan

Several months ago Diane Sain of nearby Tullahoma was diagnosed with breast cancer and just recently had a double mastectomy and is now undergoing chemo treatments. As you ca.... Read More

Traffic Crawls On I-24 Thursday Morning

May 24, 2012 at 10:02 am by bryan

As you heard on Thursday morning's WGNS traffic reports, a multi-vehicle crash on I-24 brought traffic to a stop. As motorists were heading westbound (toward Nashville) to wor.... Read More

Chamber Opens Another Business!

May 24, 2012 at 09:53 am by bryan

The Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce is out to top last year's record breaking year of welcoming new business to the area. Chamber ambassadors held a ribbon cutting at Be.... Read More

MTSU's Palmore has Barnes and Noble book signing

May 24, 2012 at 09:41 am by bryan

At 2:00 o'clock this Saturday afternoon, Director of MTSU's Child Development Center Elaine Mitchell Palmore will sign copies of her children’s books, “The Dragon.... Read More

Scouts needed 10AM Saturday at Stones River Battlefield

May 24, 2012 at 09:32 am by bryan

The Memorial Day weekend offers many opportunities to show area youth how to be more patriotic Americans. One is for Boy and Girl Scouts to place 7,000 flags on the gravesites.... Read More

Watson Resigns as MTCS President

May 23, 2012 at 09:41 pm by bryan

After 20-years, the president of Middle Tennessee Christian School is leaving. Lynn Watson resigned Thursday. He became president of MTCS in 1992. Watson was also a student at.... Read More

City Cafe Doors Closed by State

May 23, 2012 at 06:21 pm by bryan

The 112-year-old City Cafe was forced to shut its doors Wednesday due to "nonpayment of Tennessee State taxes by virtue of a levy issued by the Department of Revenue, Tax Enfo.... Read More

2012-13 City Budget proposal set: Council deliberations continue

May 23, 2012 at 12:59 pm by bryan

 After two review sessions last week, Murfreesboro City Council is ready to move to the public hearing phase of considering its 2012-2013 budget proposal.  For the.... Read More

Bridge Named After Chris Bratcher

May 23, 2012 at 12:48 pm by bryan

A bridge on Bridge Avenue in Murfreesboro has been named after former Vice Mayor Chris Bratcher. Bratcher served on the city council for the past 24-years. Bratcher has a long.... Read More

Raider Robotics team competes in NASA Lunabotics Mining event this week

May 23, 2012 at 12:39 pm by bryan

The seven-member MTSU Raider Robotics team is competing this week against 38 U.S. and 20 international undergraduate and graduate student teams in the third annual Lunabotics.... Read More

DUI Checkpoint This Weekend

May 23, 2012 at 12:27 pm by bryan

The Tennessee Highway Patrol will conduct a DUI checkpoint this weekend... 

Small Fire at Daycare

May 23, 2012 at 12:11 pm by bryan

Murfreesboro Fire & Rescue Department responded to a call for a stove fire at Wee Care Daycare located at 510 S Hancock Street early Wednesday morning. Four staff members.... Read More

Nikki Giovanni to lecture on African-American neighborhoods at MTSU

May 23, 2012 at 10:06 am by bryan

Social activist and poet Nikki Giovanni will help conclude the MTSU Public History Program’s 2012 field school, “Life in the Bottoms,” with a special lecture.... Read More

Local Rolling Thunder to DC for Memorial Day!

May 23, 2012 at 09:39 am by bryan

On the upcoming Memorial Day weekend a large contingent of local Rolling Thunder veterans are making the trek to our nation's capitol for the 25th annual Ride for Freedom. Ch.... Read More

Legislation cuts in half fees for Worker’s Compensation Exemption Registry

May 23, 2012 at 08:35 am by bryan

Legislation that decreases by 50 percent the registration and renewal fees associated with the Worker’s Compensation Exemption Registry for construction contractors has.... Read More

Juror in Shanterrica Madden Case Ran from Deputies to Avoid Trial

May 23, 2012 at 06:28 am by bryan

Here’s a story you didn’t hear about during the Shanterrica Madden case involving the murder of MTSU Lady Raider Basketball player Tina Stewart. We have since been.... Read More