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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Climate
- Yahoo
Pipe project prompts road closure
DAVIDSON COUNTY — Maintenance crews with the N.C. Department of Transportation were set to temporarily close Hege Road in northern Davidson County this week. Beginning Monday morning, Hege Road was to be closed near the intersection with S. Union Grove Road for about two weeks to allow crews to replace a storm drain culvert beneath the roadway. A detour will be in place to direct drivers around the closure using Hege Road, S. Union Grove Road and Hartman Road. The road is expected to reopen by June 13. In the event of inclement weather, the alternate dates for the work are June 9-20.
Fox News
30-05-2025
- General
- Fox News
SCOOP: Top congressional committees launch probe into Nashville mayor accused of blocking ICE
FIRST ON FOX: Two powerful committees in the House of Representatives are opening an investigation into another Democratic official accused of blocking federal immigration authorities. House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., is leading a probe into Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell alongside Nashville-area Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn, Fox News Digital learned Friday. Ogles had been petitioning leaders for weeks to look into O'Connell after the Democratic leader publicly denounced Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in his city and signed an executive order aimed at tracking ICE movements in the area. The probe is being supported by the House Judiciary Committee, which is led by Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., chair of the subcommittee for immigration enforcement. "The Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Homeland Security of the U.S. House of Representatives are conducting oversight of state and local jurisdictions that endanger American communities through efforts aimed at thwarting the work of federal immigration officials," the four leaders wrote in a letter to O'Connell. "While the state of Tennessee has outlawed sanctuary policies, recent actions from your office threaten to chill immigration enforcement in the City of Nashville and Davidson County. Accordingly, we write to request information about how your recent actions, including a directive to Nashville and Davidson County employees to disclose their communications with federal immigration officials, affects the robust enforcement of immigration law." The lawmakers said O'Connell's executive order, which mandated that government employees report interactions with federal immigration authorities, "could have a chilling effect on the ability of local law enforcement to communicate freely and candidly with federal immigration employees." "In fact, your chief lawyer recently admitted that it was an 'open question' whether an individual could legally 'announce in advance that there's an impending enforcement activity,'" they wrote. "This statement, when viewed in context of your order requiring all Metro law-enforcement officers to report about communications with ICE personnel, raises the prospect that Metro employees may use nonpublic information to warn criminal aliens of planned ICE enforcement operations. In other words, there is the real potential that your Executive Order could have the effect of diminishing ICE enforcement operations." It comes after ICE agents working with the Tennessee Highway Patrol arrested nearly 200 people the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said were illegal immigrants – many of them criminals with gang affiliations or other sordid pasts. The DHS news release targeted O'Connell by name over comments he made in early May. "What's clear today is that people who do not share our values of safety and community have the authority to cause deep community harm." After the arrests, O'Connell signed an executive order aimed at tracking peoples' interactions with federal immigration authorities, according to WSMV4. He said of ICE's work in his city, "It's important for us to get this right, and it's very frustrating to see a failure in the process." O'Connell also helped launch the Nashville government's nonprofit, "The Belonging Fund," to help illegal immigrants pay for urgent care needs. The fund's website states that "donations to the fund are made possible solely by individual donors and private organizations - no government dollars are included. That means no taxpayer dollars are being used in the administration or distribution of this fund." Republicans, however, have questioned whether that is true. "The recipients of these funds are untraceable, and the purpose seems crystal clear: help illegal foreigners evade the law," Ogles told Fox News Digital. "I refuse to sit back while our communities are overrun — while our neighborhoods are destroyed and our daughters are assaulted. And I doubly refuse to stay silent while blue city mayors aid and abet this invasion." O'Connell is now one of several Democratic leaders locked in an immigration fight with the Trump administration. House Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., was charged by the Justice Department with assaulting an officer after she and two other House Democrats forced their way into a Newark ICE detention center, charges McIver has dismissed as political. Fox News Digital reached out to the Nashville mayor's office for comment on the letter.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Yahoo
Business owner arrested on more charges
DAVIDSON COUNTY — A Trinity man who was accused in April of defrauding multiple customers of his Davidson County business now has been charged in an additional 19 cases, the Davidson County Sheriff's Office announced Friday. Jesse Allen Black, 52, the president and majority owner of Triad Carports and Metal Structures Inc. at 1961 E. U.S. Highway 64 in Lexington, is accused of taking cash deposits for buildings and structures that were never completed. In early 2025, detectives began a fraud investigation that found more than two dozen people who had paid a combined $278,142 for buildings and other structures that were never completed, the sheriff's office said. On April 15, deputies executed a search warrant at Triad Carports, and Black was arrested and charged with 25 counts of felony obtaining property by false pretenses. On Thursday, May 22, after further investigation Black was arrested on an additional 19 counts of felonious obtaining property by false pretenses and two counts of felonious worthless checks involving deposits of a combined $285,726, the sheriff's office said. Black also had issued two checks totaling $47,140 to businesses, but there were insufficient funds in the account to cover the checks, the sheriff's office said. Black has a court hearing set for June 2. Investigators ask that anyone with information related to this investigation contact Lt. C. Goforth with the Davidson County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation Division at (336) 242-2123.
CBS News
20-05-2025
- CBS News
Jason Corbett murder: A look at the evidence
48 Hours Jason Corbett murder: A look at the evidence Davidson County Courthouse In August 2015, former FBI agent Tom Martens and his daughter Molly Corbett admitted killing her Irish-born husband Jason Corbett, insisting they beat him in self-defense with a brick paver and a baseball bat because Jason was choking Molly and threatening to kill her. Investigators photographed Molly and Jason Corbett's bedroom after the murder. Blood spatter can be seen on the bed. Measuring Spatter Davidson County Courthouse An investigator measures the height of the blood spatter on the wall in Molly and Jason Corbett's bedroom. The prosecution says Jason's head was 12-18 inches above the ground when he was struck, meaning he was struck when he was down. The Bat Davidson County Courthouse Tom Martens used this baseball bat to hit Jason Corbett when, Martens claims, he saw his son-in-law strangling his daughter Molly. He told investigators he had been spending the night at his daughter's home. After being awakened by a commotion upstairs, he says he grabbed the aluminum Little League baseball bat he brought as a gift for the kids – and ran to her room. The Brick Davidson County Courthouse Molly Corbett used this brick to hit Jason on the head. She claims it was sitting on her nightstand in the bedroom because she and the kids planned to paint it for an art project. Molly also told police that her husband was "screaming 'I'm going to kill you.'" Molly's Shirt Davidson County Courthouse Investigators photograph Molly's clothes and indicate the blood spatter. Molly Corbett Davidson County Courthouse Investigators photograph Molly Corbett at the sheriff's office after Jason's murder. The prosecution used this photo in court to show that Molly did not appear to have any injuries. Tom Martens Davidson County Courthouse Investigators photograph Tom Martens at the sheriff's office after Jason Corbett's murder. The prosecution used this photo in court to show that Tom did not appear to have any injuries. Tom Martens' shirt Davidson County Courthouse Markers indicate blood spatter on Tom Martens' shirt. Bloody Boxers Davidson County Courthouse Markers indicate blood spatter on Tom Martens' boxer shorts. These spots were never tested, but the prosecution argues the spatter indicates that Tom was standing over Jason as he hit him with the baseball bat. Jason's Blood on Molly Davidson County Courthouse Molly Corbett, with Jason's blood on her, is photographed outside after his murder. Molly's Neck Davidson County Courthouse Molly Corbett told investigators she was in pain from the choke hold her husband Jason allegedly had her in. There was a small red mark on her neck. It is hard to see in this photo.
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
From waste to garden gold: Composting reduces trash and saves money
In the minds of many, 'sustainable' means 'environmental.' And to many minds, all that is 'environmental' is, by definition, impractical hippie nonsense. They don't want to hear about it. They'd rather just stick to Business as Usual thank you very much. But Business as Usual is causing problems, and it's not sustainable by any definition of the word. This is especially true in our rapidly growing region. We all know that more people bring more traffic, but there's another issue that is also rapidly growing: trash. Most of us seldomly think about our trash, probably because, unlike traffic, we don't sit in it multiple times a day. If we stick to Business as Usual, however, we could be wallowing in trash sooner than most of us realize. Middle Tennessee, and Nashville, within it, has a serious trash problem. Davidson and twenty neighboring counties rely almost solely on one facility for trash disposal, and this facility is filling up fast. Building another landfill, aka Business as Usual, will take a decade or longer, and in whose backyard will it be located? The only sure answer is that if it's going to landfill, that landfill will be much farther away. There are logistical and environmental consequences to longer hauling, but the one that will hit us all most glaringly is that it will cost more. For business owners, landlords, residents, homeowners, and students alike, Business as Usual is going to cost more. A lot more… …unless there is something we could do locally. …and we could somehow turn waste into something useful. Thankfully, we needn't wait for radical, world-changing breakthroughs to be invented to solve our trash crisis. Composting is an effective weapon against these coming problems, and of environmental benefit to boot. We landfill enormous quantities of food, paper, cardboard and yard waste, all of which could be composted and turned into soil that improves our gardens, farms, and landscaping. With minimal changes in habit in our homes, restaurants, offices, grocery stores, schools, and hotels, we can divert nearly 30% of landfill-bound trash starting today. That's potentially millions of pounds of material that becomes a resource instead of rubbish. Critics of change will say it requires millions in new investment to make this possible. They'll say it's yucky and difficult and hippie-dippy nonsense but, well, they're just plain wrong. Local resources are already in place, and they've demonstrated effectiveness in school pilots and some homes, as well as in restaurants and grocery stores you already patronize. The work has already begun, but more participation is needed. That's where you come in. More: Rutherford, Murfreesboro seek landfill 'to restrict the flow of that trash' from Nashville Nashville residents can drop food scraps for free at Metro Convenience Centers. Services like The Compost Company exist to help businesses dispose of waste in a way that is clean and economical. Compostables can be picked up from your home by a local services such as Compost Nashville and Regener8. Or you can try home composting. It's rewarding, environmentally-friendly, and free. Composting is impactful at any scale and is an action in which anyone can participate. Landfilling trash is not, and never was, a good solution. It's just a cheap one. But 'round here it's getting more expensive by the day, and costs will skyrocket when we have to find new, far-flung locations to keep burying our waste. Composting, alternatively, is a process that can be repeated to cascading financial and social benefit, again and again in the same facilities. Waste comes in, and garden gold comes out. That's Business as Usual, evolved. And composting is also just one example of flipping the script on waste. Plastic, metal, and other commonly disposed-of materials are needed by area manufacturers, yet we throw them away constantly. I'd encourage you to check out the Waste to Jobs Act that is picking up steam in our State Legislature, and should come to the floor in 2026. It is an excellent example of creative problem-solving. Like composting, this act will reduce waste, create jobs, save resources and money, and improve our environment. Small improvements resulting in big impact. Now that, my friends, is what sustainability can mean. Clay Ezell is a certified Master Composter and Co-Owner/CEO of The Compost Company. He has recently served as a founding member and President of the Tennessee Composting Council and is a member of the US Composting Council, the Tennessee Environmental Council, and the Cumberland River Compact. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Middle Tennessee has a trash problem. Composting can help | Opinion
