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A driver has been taken into custody following a Saturday night collision in Clarksville that sent a woman to the hospital. Police said a woman was heading southbound on Fort Campbell Boulevard when she was rear-ended by a white Jeep. The woman was flown to Nashville via life-flight helicopter and is reportedly in stable condition. Police said they made contact with the driver close to Tiny Town Road and took the driver into custody. There is no word on that individual’s identity or any potential charges.
Mt. Juliet authorities said they took four people into custody Friday afternoon for shoplifting. Not only were all four suspects from outside the city, but one of them was wanted in three Middle Tennessee counties. Authorities said they arrested a 27-year-old Cheatham County man — who already had warrants out of Cheatham, Williamson, and Montgomery counties — and a 40-year-old Clarksville woman for shoplifting. Mt. Juliet’s Guardian Shield program had notified officers earlier in the afternoon about a license plate of a “known suspect vehicle in many Middle TN shoplifting incidents.” Police said they intercepted the car in Providence Marketplace and took two suspects — confirmed as the shoplifters — into custody.
If you were one of the thousands across the country who were affected by Thursday’s AT&T cellular outage you’ll get an apology and a credit on your account for a full day of service. The exact cause of the outages is not yet known, but various reports said it could have been caused by a solar flare, a cloud misconfiguration, or human error.
A Wilson County man has been sentenced to serve 12 years in prison for vandalizing Lebanon Cemeteries. 33-year-old Justin Emler pled guilty to vandalism over $60,000 and desecration of a venerated object for overturning several gravestones in two adjoining cemeteries on July 16, 2022. Emler pleaded guilty to his role in an unrelated burglary where two golf carts were stolen. Emler was sentenced to serve 10 years for the cemetery offenses and an additional two years for the burglary case.
A Franklin family is thankful for neighbors after a house fire on Friday morning. Neighbors spotted flames shooting out of the garage of Ed Owens’ house and rushed inside to tell the family their house was on fire and helped them get out. One of the two that entered was a Nashville fireman who just happened to be driving by, and the other was a pregnant woman who lives two houses down. They helped rush everyone out and called for help. Firefighters said the cause of the fire is under investigation.