The Tennessee House of Representatives has unanimously passed a bill known as Noah’s Law and sent it to Governor Bill Lee, who is expected to sign it. The bill passed last night. It would allow a custodial parent to seek an emergency court order to declare a child to be in imminent danger. The law would force a noncustodial parent to return the child to the custodial parent immediately. The bill was created with three-year-old Noah Clare was reported missing last November after spending a week with his father. After he was found, the father — Jacob Clare — was charged with kidnapping.
The Robertson County Players’ production of 12 Angry Jurors will begin its run at 7 p.m. this Friday and Saturday, Thursday, March 31, and Friday and Saturday, April 1st and 2nd at Springfield Middle School’s Historic Auditorium. The story was initially broadcast as a television play in 1954 under the title 12 Angry Men and was later adapted for the stage. For more information about the production, go to www.robertsoncountyplayers.org.
A family in Mount Juliet considers itself lucky after a stolen car nearly crashed into their home while they were still inside. The family says it had buried a Bible in the ground near the site of the crash, so they credit divine intervention with the near-miss. It happened Saturday night when authorities say a group of four boys assaulted a staff member at the Rosewood Youth Academy and stole one of the worker’s cars. Another Rosewood employee pursued them and they nearly crashed into a home on Beckwith Road. Rosewood Academy officials are investigating the boys’ escape.
A new survey says the outlook by consumers in Tennessee has hit an all-time low. The survey comes from the Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. The university’s college of business conducts surveys of 600 consumers four times a year. In its latest survey, people answering the survey said their outlook since last December had declined over worries about inflation, the war in Ukraine, and their dissatisfaction with the current administration.
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