On the afternoon of Feb. 5, the parents of students at Inglewood's Dan Mills Elementary received an email to inform them of "a situation that occurred at school today."
Sometime on May 8, two weeks before his scheduled execution, Oscar Smith was moved away from the other men on death row and into almost complete isolation.
The federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency on Tuesday trumpeted the results of the recent operation that incited outrage, panic and confusion around Nashville.
The former Metro Nashville Police Department lieutenant who went public as a whistleblower against the department last year was arrested Tuesday on two criminal indictments accusing him of illegally accessing and taking internal files and other documents.
If Oscar Smith is executed as scheduled on May 22 at Nashville's Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, he will be killed with a lethal dose of the barbiturate pentobarbital.
With the Trump administration targeting foreign-born college students across the country for deportation, Vanderbilt University faculty are still mostly in the dark about how they are supposed to respond to potential immigration enforcement on campus.
The Davidson County Grand Jury in recent months conducted its own inquiry into the whistleblower complaint brought last year against the Metro Nashville Police Department and concluded that "there is evidence of criminal and civil violations which should be meticulously investigated" by a special prosecutor, according to a forthcoming report obtained by the Banner.
When the Nashville Community Review Board went public with information that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation last year raided the law firm hired to conduct an independent investigation of a whistleblower complaint against the Metro Nashville Police Department, it released tension that had been building behind the scenes for several months.
In South Nashville earlier this month, a 36-year-old man was making his way home in the same manner he had many other times.
Five years ago this month, just before 6 a.m. on March 2, 2020, the Nashville office of the National Weather Service posted a message on social media about changes in the forecast.
