Sunday night motorists ran into delays along Interstate 65 because of a crash involving an RV near the Sumner County-Robertson County line. All southbound lanes were closed at mile marker 103 for a couple of hours, causing a backup past mile marker 105.5, based on TDOT’s online traffic map. However, as of 8:30 p.m., I-65 South was back open. The White House Community Volunteer Fire Department wrote on Facebook that one person had to be removed from a truck, but there is no word on that person’s condition.
A Montgomery County middle schooler has been at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt for nearly three weeks, having undergone emergency brain surgery after he was reportedly put in a chokehold by an older student on a bus. 12-year-old Hayden Horton was in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for more than a week, but now he’s out. However, he has not talked, walked, or even ate solid foods. Haydn’s mother is questioning why two adults on that Montgomery County school bus allegedly watched her child being choked but took no action or even reported it.
First responders said they used about 1,000 gallons of water to extinguish a fire that seriously damaged a semi-trailer in Sumner County Saturday. The Gallatin Volunteer Fire Department said crews were called to Highway 109 North and South Tunnel Road on Saturday, Nov. 9 for a fire involving a semi-trailer. When firefighters arrived, they said the trailer was 25% involved with flames.
Two men who co-founded a militia group have been convicted of attempting to murder federal agents ahead of a planned trip to the Texas-Mexico border to shoot at immigrants illegally crossing there and any federal agents who might try to stop them. A jury at the U.S. District Court in the Missouri state capital of Jefferson City found Jonathan S. O’Dell, 34, of Warshaw, Missouri, and Bryan C. Perry, 39, of Clarksville, Tennessee, guilty of more than 30 felony counts each, the chief federal prosecutor for western Missouri, Teresa Moore, announced Friday. The convictions Thursday came after jurors deliberated for more than two hours.
