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The Nolensville Little League team is headed to the U.S. Championship. The Southeast region winners defeated Pearland, Texas seven-to-one on Thursday to keep their season alive and set up a rematch against Honolulu. Nolensville will look to get payback after losing to the Hawaii team 13-nothing on Wednesday. The United States Championship is set for tomorrow at two-thirty p.m. central.
Three Clarksville suspects are now charged in connection with a shooting at a West Creek High School football game. Authorities say 18-year-old David Sanders is facing contributing to the delinquency of a minor and facilitation of a felony charges. Seventeen-year-old Josue Batista is charged with accessory after the fact. Investigators report a 16-year-old suspect fired the weapon while leaving the stadium on August 19th. He is facing aggravated assault among other charges.
A Tampa, Florida man wanted in connection with the death of a one-year-old child has been arrested in Clarksville. Officers took 28-year-old Terin Smith into custody Sunday. Tampa police say Smith was watching the child while the mother was at work, and struck the infant for being “whiny”. Other children in the home saw the baby was unresponsive and went to neighbors for help. That’s when, investigators say, Smith fled the scene.
The Robertson County Historical Society is gearing up for “The Last Days of Frank & Jesse James Festival” Saturday. An old, Wild West bank robbery reenactment on the Springfield courthouse square is the highlight of the event. The festival, which is in its second year, celebrates the 36th Anniversary of the 1986 film, The Last Days of Frank & Jesse James, in which several scenes were “filmed in and around the Robertson County Courthouse and Orlinda.
