• The TBI is considering charging local law enforcement for the use of their crime lab to analyze crime scene evidence. Local police departments depend on the labs for most of the analysis, but because our state is broke and slashed their budget, they’ve decided they need the extra money. A change like that could cost counties tens of thousands of dollars. [WTVF]
• Mark Chesnut, the Metro Police sergeant who was shot during a routine traffic stop on I-40, is suing the Corrections Corporation of America over the incident. Sgt. Chesnut was shot five times while sitting in his car by an inmate who had escaped from a CCA-owned prison in Mississippi. [WSMV]
• A member of the anti-Scientology group Anonymous is suing the Scientology Celebrity Centre on 8th Ave. after he was allegedly assaulted and injured during a protest of their grand opening back in April. [Tennessean]
• Keith Urban played in the Cool Springs Verizon store parking lot and everyone survived. [WKRN]
• With the Halloween festivities come a lot of street closures. Be prepared. [Tennessean]

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