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Rutherford County Unemployment Down Again In September
The unemployment rate is below 5 percent in all 95 Tennessee counties, with Rutherford's at 2.3 percent.

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The unemployment rate is below 5 percent in all 95 Tennessee counties, with Rutherford's at 2.3 percent.

For the first time ever, all 95 Tennessee counties have unemployment below 5 percent, with Davidson County's at 2.2 percent.
TDOT's $28.5 million rehab project on a five-mile stretch of I-24 continues this weekend, resulting in a lengthy road closure.
A wet and warm Friday across the Midstate will give way to a much, much cooler weekend, with patchy frost possible Saturday and Sunday.
State Rep. Charles Sargent, chairman of the powerful House finance committee, will not run for re-election in 2018.
A Nashville cocaine dealer who thought he could sling dope with impunity because he wasn't a "gangbanger" was very, very wrong.
K-9 units helped Metro Police apprehend two men who broke into a Donelson denture store.
Online retail giant Amazon says its new delivery service in the Nashville area will place packages inside your home while you're gone.
A man broke into a pizza joint to steal some drinks and a nearby jeweler to steal a lot more than that, Nashville police say.
Roads around the Murfreesboro square will be closed during Saturday's planned "White Lives Matter" march.
Flyers tied to American Renaissance, designated a hate group by the SPLC, were left on VU's campus, school leaders wrote in an email.
The TBI says a Nashville Fire Department captain set his own home on fire.
Shelbyville and Murfreesboro, south of Nashville, are readying for Saturday's "White Lives Matter" rallies.
A 32-year-old Nashville man yelled racial slurs at a pair of teenage Muslim sisters, telling them to "go back to their country," police say.
A 58-year-old man is accused of throwing wood and metal from a railroad overpass in Nashville on to cars below.
Missing since Saturday, 12-year-old runaway Javontez Staten was located close to home Tuesday afternoon.
Google Fiber is now available for neighborhoods from East Nashville to Vanderbilt, the company says.
A New Jersey woman is suing Sprocket Rocket, alleging a pedal bar driver was unable to hear her screams over the noise.
Two people crashed a car and then tried carjacking someone Tuesday, according to Smyrna Police.
A gunfight broke out between some thieves and their marks at a North Nashville gas station midday Tuesday