It’s still not publicly known if anyone was inside a vehicle that went into the Red River in Clarksville. The vehicle was removed from the river late yesterday afternoon. It went into the river after leaving Wilma Rudolph Boulevard early Sunday morning. Roads were slick at the time of the crash.
The new year is off to a snowy start in the Mid-State. The National Weather Service says many Mid-State areas received one to four inches between Sunday and Monday morning. Multiple school districts are closed or delayed today due to snow and ice.
Fire tore through a Goodlettsville home early Monday morning. Flames broke out around midnight at the home along Baker Road and it was fully engulfed when fire crews arrived. Everyone was able to make it out safely. Crews had trouble getting equipment across a bridge to the home and were forced to lay thousands of feet of hose to douse the flames. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Twenty members of Tennessee’s National Guard have left for a yearlong mission to Kuwait. The Nashville-based soldiers are part of the guard’s 105th Personnel Company and were deployed on Sunday. They will provide administrative services to members traveling across the Middle East.
Amateur astronomers in Robertson County will have an opportunity to view a near-earth asteroid over a mile-wide after sunset tonight. The asteroid is roughly two-and-a-half times the size of the Empire State Building in New York City and is considered by NASA to be potentially hazardous. The space rock is expected to fly past the Earth at a distance of one-point-two-million miles, which is closer than recent asteroid fly-bys in May 2019 and December 2021.
