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It Got Easy Beer-ing Green: Nashville Mayor Pushes Honky-Tonks To Recycle
Starting in January, Metro wants downtown bars to separate glass bottles for recycling.

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Starting in January, Metro wants downtown bars to separate glass bottles for recycling.

After nine reported rock-throwing attacks on cars in southeast Davidson County, a tenth has been reported near downtown.
Five Grundy County High School football players are charged with the attempted aggravated rape of a teammate, rocking a tiny, secluded town.
Nashville police are investigating multiple potential crime scenes in a miles-long gun battle that killed one person early Friday.
It looks like fall may come to Middle Tennessee in earnest after a grab-bag weekend weather-wise
The search is on for a 30- to 40-foot Norway spruce to serve as Metro's official Christmas tree.
At least nine cars were hit by rocks during a one-month period along Bell Road and police are searching for the perps.
A 55-year-old taxi driver died after a downtown crash Wednesday.
A Nashville man was arrested for aggravated assault after stabbing his niece's boyfriend in an effort to break-up a domestic dispute.
A security guard at CarTronics on Myatt Drive told police burglars tried to back their getaway van into him, so he shot his gun.
Hardware stores and power-tool dealers throughout the Midstate report a rash of chainsaw thefts.
Residents of the Lake Forest area should not be alarmed if they see SWAT members in the neighborhood Friday afternoon. It's just an exercise
A massage therapist at Brentwood's Massage Envy had his license suspended following an accusation of inappropriate sexual contact.
Drug task force agents thwarted a Detroit-based heroin and pill trafficking ring near a Goodlettsville day care
Police say a 29-year-old met a teenager on Twitter, lied about his age and then raped her in an overflow parking lot on TSU's campus.
Special events are planned for Friday and Saturday at the Smyrna Outdoor Adventure Center
A guard at the Tennessee Prison for Women had sex with an inmate twice, according to a TBI investigation.
A cross-section of white nationalists plan to march in Murfreesboro and Shelbyville October 28.
Police believe a burglar hid out at the Donelson Kmart until closing time and pulled a smash-and-grab on the jewelry case.
Nashville Fire investigators are looking for a woman who doused a car with gasoline and set it ablaze at James Cayce Homes.