Patch editor covering Nashville and environs. Formerly of the Nashville Scene, Nashville Post, Nashville City Paper and Lebanon Democrat. Navy vet, anglophile, sports appreciator, dad culture celebrator. Generalist. I'm at james.lind@patch.com (keeping it formal) and on Twitter at @jrlind
A Nashville judge ordered a mental health evaluation in the first major court date for Travis Reinking, the Waffle House shooting suspect.
A 20-mile car chase ended with a crash at the Brick Church Pike exit of Briley Parkway early Monday morning.
One man was injured and a utility pole crashed to the pavement in a hit-and-run on Thompson Lane Monday morning.
Metro Police continue to search for the driver of a car that hit a golf cart downtown late Sunday morning.
"I ain't gonna lie, I broke the window," a man accused of drunkenly trying to fight his neighbor reportedly told Nashville police.
A Sig P238 reported stolen from Rutherford County was found during a traffic stop in North Nashville, police say.
It'll be a mostly gorgeous week across Middle Tennessee with highs in the upper 70s to the mid-80s with some rain chances midweek.
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Residents of an East Nashville neighborhood were terrified after gunfire erupted Friday night.
A man wanted for a March robbery at an East Nashville hotel was arrested Friday.
A 32-year-old woman was shot dead after a fight at a Dickerson Pike liquor store Friday.
An internal investigation is underway after Metro Police officers were dispatched to the wrong Waffle House the night of the shooting.
Initially thought to be a suicide, the death of an East Nashville woman is now believed to be a murder by a married couple.
A Metro Police sergeant is accused of pointing his handgun at another MNPD officer after a meeting.
Franklin Police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who seriously injured a second-grader walking with her mother.
Metro Police arrested the girlfriend of the man killed at Opry Mills Thursday, alleging she was carrying a pair of stolen pistols.
A small fire at a Bellevue assisted living facility forced an evacuation early Friday.
A 30-year-old man was shot twice in the leg at a Madison apartment complex early Friday morning.
Metro Police are looking for a man who robbed a woman in broad daylight Monday. He's a thief known for targeting people at churches.
Metro Nashville Police said a “dispute” sparked a deadly shooting at Opry Mills Mall.
