The approval expands the department's DroneSense access from six drones to all eight drones in its fleet. Police stressed the vote did not establish a drone as first responder program.
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What This Story Is About As his second term nears its end, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee visited Knoxville to address major state priorities. Why It Matters With billions of dollars invested in transportation, industry recruitment and public safety across Tennessee, the governor’s appr...
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What This Story Is About Metro Animal Care and Control is urgently seeking fosters after a power outage knocked out the air conditioning in one of its dog adoption rooms on Thursday. Why It Matters WSMV4’s First Alert Weather team said after three consecutive days of tying or bre...
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What This Story Is About The Murfreesboro City Council approved software licenses for two newly purchased police drones Thursday night amid controversy surrounding the Murfreesboro Police Department’s (MPD) use of the Flock Safety operating system. Why It Matters Community member...
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What This Story Is About A massive, slow-moving underwater pulse of warm equatorial water called a Kelvin wave is traveling across the Pacific toward California. Why It Matters Because warm water expands, it can temporarily elevate sea levels, increasing high-tide flooding and wo...
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Metro Nashville Police Department detectives arrested a 29-year-old Bellevue man Thursday after an investigation that began with a tip.
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An F-16 pilot safely ejected before the fighter jet crashed Thursday in rural Michigan, sending plumes of smoke into the sky and triggering temporary evacuations for nearby residents after police said hazardous chemicals spilled from the wreckage. Sgt. Derek Gutierrez, a public a...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A Nashville man was arrested on Thursday after sexual material involving minors was found on his cellphone. Metro Nashville Police said they arrested 29-year-old Benjamin Cowden for sexual exploitation of minors. According to police, they received a tip ...
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According to the Metro Nashville Police Department, detectives with the department's Sex Crimes Unit arrested Benjamin F. Cowden, 29, on the charge on Thursday....
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Tennessee’s unemployment rate held at 3.4% in August, matching the state’s lowest rate of the year as employers added 1,800 jobs from July.
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A delivery driver crashed his tractor-trailer rig into the front of an Aldi grocery store in East Nashville early Thursday morning. Police say while delivering items to the Aldi on Gallatin Avenue, the driver, 34-year-old Kristofer Scruggs, intentionally crashed into the storefro...
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New footage of rare Florida panthers is a promising sign that the endangered species might be getting more of a foothold. The video, captured by a trail camera, shows a mother and three young cubs at a nature reserve in Fort Myers. That's further north of where the endangered cat...
