The coronavirus outbreak in Nashville that once centered in Antioch and other southeastern neighborhoods is shifting to the city’s center, spreading among downtown residents and patrons of bars, honky-tonks and other crowded Lower Broadway businesses.The city government on Tuesday released heat maps showing the virus is spreading fastest and furthest in the downtown area, and leaders…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Mayor John Cooper says he’s considering his options, including a possible mandate on masks, as Nashville sees an increase in new COVID-19 cases. The increase coincides with the city and state re-opening. But if there’s an epicenter for where COVID-19 cases are hitting hardest in Nashville, the Antioch area is it."Southeast…
Sandy Mazza, Nashville Tennessean Published 12:30 p.m. CT June 22, 2020 | Updated 1:10 p.m. CT June 22, 2020Eight more Nashville restaurants violated coronavirus-related restrictions, Metro Public Health Department officials said after the second week of issuing such citations. A total of 22 businesses received infraction tickets for not complying with the public health emergency declaration orders this…
Nashville liquor store owner May Boyce, an 88-year-old widow who stands 5-foot-3 and weighs 115 pounds, according to reports, got “fed up” of her store being robbed so she shot an alleged shoplifter.She told police she grabbed her late mother Mary’s .38 Smith & Wesson snub-nose revolver and shot a suspect who was trying to steal alcohol…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…