• Your evening commute is probably going to be ruined with the Vice President in town for a fundraiser at Music City Center. The motorcade is anticipated between 5 and 6 p.m.
• Following the sour note that the last guy left on, the Nashville Predators announced open auditions to be their next anthem singer for the upcoming season.
• Local rap artist Starlito is wanted in connection to a shooting inside a popular East Nashville restaurant Tuesday night. Police say three men were arguing before one pulled a pistol and shot another in the leg.
• Metro Nashville Public Schools has about 140 teaching positions left to fill as students return on Monday.
• A proposed bill before Metro Council would require that work sites provide a complaint line for nearby residents.
• A Murfreesboro woman allegedly pulled a pistol out of her wedding dress and threatened her new groom during an argument.
• The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) appears to have lost the recordings of emergency calls from last fall’s deadly wildfires near Gatlinburgh.
• Have we mentioned how happy we are about the free bus transfers and reduced fares?
• Somebody tried to carry a loaded pistol on to a plane at Nashville International Airport on Wednesday. It was the 48th time so far this year somebody forgot to put their weapon in checked baggage.
• Nashville neighborhoods celebrated the annual Night Out Against Crime in a year that has seen an uptick in violent crime.
• Police say a Nashville woman stabbed her ex-boyfriend because he refused to cook for her. No word on what was to be on the menu.
• The cousin of former council member Loniel Green was sentenced to 10 years in prison for domestic violence. The short-tenured Greene is still facing coercion charges for trying to intimidate the victim.
• And finally, Nashville Predator captain Mike Fisher announced this morning that he’s hanging up the skates after 17 seasons. No announcement yet on who will be the next captain.

Photo by Steven Taylor.