Earlier this month, Nashville criminal justice officials received a regular email outlining the daily population of the city's jail facilities. It showed that, with the exception of the mental health-focused Behavioral Care Center, every one of them was overcrowded.
On the last night of her life, March 27, 1988, 29-year-old Angela Clay finished a Sunday shift as a lab worker at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The Metro Nashville Police Department is investigating threats against four female judges allegedly made by a man locked up in the local jail.
In November 1987, the tenant of a Charlotte Avenue home made a horrifying discovery — the skeletal remains of two women were buried just beneath the dirt floor of the crawl space.
Both sides of the long Fourth of July weekend were marked by death on Nashville roads.
Violent crime in Nashville was down nearly 10% as the halfway point of 2025 neared, with reports of homicide, rape, street robberies and aggravated assaults all coming in less frequently than last year according to the latest Metro data.
On Aug. 5, executioners at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution plan to inject 68-year-old Byron Black with a lethal dose of pentobarbital, carrying out the death sentence handed down by a Nashville jury in 1989.
President Donald Trump is nominating Braden Boucek, a former federal prosecutor and conservative legal advocate, to be the new U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
A Nashville cold case detective has concluded that three Civil Rights-era bombing cases, which have loomed over the city for decades, are unlikely to be solved without a confession from someone involved in the attacks.
It has been a month since federal immigration agents, with the help of Tennessee state troopers, took nearly 200 allegedly undocumented immigrants off Nashville's streets and quickly bussed them out of state.
