Tag Archives: tennessee highway patrol
Bright & Early: Enforcer Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Here’s your morning news: Former Preds defenseman and forward Wade Belak was found dead in a Toronto hotel room yesterday, and though the cause of death hasn’t been confirmed, many media outlets are reporting that it was a suicide. Belak was with the Preds from 2008 until he retired this past February. [...]
Bright & Early: Ppppttthhhhhhbbbbbttt Edition
Good morning, Nashville. News Channel 5′s investigative team continues to dig up dirt on Davidson County Clerk John Arriola (whose last name, by the way, is one of our least favorite things to type in a news item each day), this time bringing to light the taxpayer-funded $33,000 Chevy Tahoe he drives instead of the more [...]
Bright & Early: Open The Gates And Seize The Day Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Bonnaroo officials are hoping to alleviate at least some of the traffic woes that have kept some festival attendees from waiting 11 or so hours to get through the gates and backing things up on I-24. Gates will open a little earlier than usual–7pm on Wednesday–to get attendees into the campgrounds faster. [...]
Happy Hour: We’ve Got (More) Company
Forget CMApocalypse; Tennessee’s finest are battening down the hatches for the 80,000 Bonnaroo attendees who will be pouring into our state next weekend. They’ve set up some extra patrols to help with the traffic and snag people who might have some, er, magic cupcakes in tow. [Post Politics, who just cleaned up on Jeopardy for the [...]
Bright & Early: Unlikely Help Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Most of us have heard the story about group of inmate volunteers who saved the Omohundro water treatment facility from flooding with their mad sandbagging skills. News Channel 5 takes a closer look at what happened that day and finds that some inmates worked as many as 36 hours straight shoveling 500 tons [...]
Bright & Early: Going Batty Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We knew the Sounds were having a bad season, but we didn’t realize it was on track to be the worst one in franchise history. With just 14 games left in the season, they’re going to have to pull off 10 wins if they want to dodge that milestone. We’ve always been [...]
Happy Hour: Strut Your Stuff
Elvis’ infamous peacock jumpsuit with the “plunging neckline” was auctioned off online for $300K, solidly beating the Elvis auction record of $295K for one of his cars. [WTVF] The Tennessee Highway Patrol handed out 1000 “buckle bears” and coloring books to troopers that they can give to kids at the scene of car wrecks. The [...]
Happy Hour: Terrestrial Matters
Your Thursday laugh, especially for the speed demons among us: Channel 2 snagged this video of a Tennessee Highway Patrolman doling out a speeding ticket to another cop. [WKRN] The Health Department is saying that the 10th Tennessean is being treated for salmonella poisoning, and they’re blaming it all on tomatoes Texas jalepenos Mexico now. [...]
Happy Hour: Buckle Up
A careless construction crew struck an underground transformer and it exploded this morning. A similar incident happened in 1999 – you’d think that they would have learned the first time. [WSMV] From now through 11:59pm on Sunday, be extra careful on the roads. Tennessee Highway Patrol and Metro Nashville Police will be busy with sobriety [...]
Happy Hour: Doing The Electric Slide
U.S. Representative Jim Cooper is under investigation by the FBI for illegally accessing the website of the largest electric cooperative in the country. His spokesman calls the investigation “laughable,” but we think it’s safe to say that no one’s laughing about electricity these days. [Tennessean] The Tennessee Highway Patrol kicked off their 100 Days of [...]
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