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Police say the majority of stolen vehicles are easy targets because the keys are made available. (WSMV)
Metro police have an astonishing number. During the week of July 9, police say 81 percent of the cars stolen were easy targets because the keys were left inside, or were made available to thieves.
(WSMV file photo)The Department of Labor released record numbers on Thursday showing the lowest unemployment rate Tennessee has ever seen at 3.6 percent.
Metro police are apologizing to a man after it took five hours to respond to a burglar alarm. But police say they aren't to blame and that the city's communications center made a serious mistake.
A patient said he spotted the mold at Tristar Centennial Medical Center. (WSMV)If you should need to go to the hospital, you would obviously expect your room to be clean. That’s what one family assumed until they took a second look during a visit.
Rex Whitlock and Cameron Braswell made videos from inside prison. (WSMV)The U.S. Attorney of the middle district of Tennessee said the video the News 4 I-Team first exposed of a federal inmate communicating with the outside world while in prison will be included in evidence in that inmate’s criminal case.
The son of a former Nashville assistant district attorney has been charged with a serious drug offense and it’s raising questions about his treatment in the courts and his criminal past.
A high-end Nashville hotel had to pay a fine after giving massages without a license.
(WSMV)Matt Hale said it only took a phone call from the Channel 4 I-Team to do something he’s been trying to do for three years: clean up his neighbor’s property.
(WSMV)Neighbors called it their urban jungle. Set in the heart of Green Hills, in the middle of a residential neighborhood, the overgrown property has become such an eyesore, neighbors have been complaining about it for years to the owner.
(WSMV file photo)Multiple accusations of racial discrimination have led Metro Council members to closely monitor the Davidson County Election Commission, according to members of the council’s minority caucus.
The highest-paid Metro general government employee is getting a big raise.
The Channel 4 I-Team has uncovered allegations against Ronald Strickland dating back to 2007. (WSMV)In his lifetime, Ronald Strickland has gone from patrolling Tennessee’s highways to pleading guilty to a federal crime. And it’s video uncovered by the Channel 4 I-Team that makes a victims’ advocate hope for a maximum sentence.
(WSMV file photo)Changes are being made one year after the Channel 4 I-Team exposed how long it can take Metro police to respond to home burglaries.
(WSMV file photo)Setting off fireworks without a proper permit is illegal in Davidson County. But the Channel 4 I-Team discovered few people have been punished for breaking the rules.
Zach Jones appears in court in 2015. (WSMV file photo)A man who has been the subject of several Channel 4 I-Team investigations is once again behind bars, charged with felony theft by deception for pretending to be an attorney and taking his victims’ money.
The Nashville Sounds left Greer Stadium after the 2014 baseball season. (WSMV file photo)Greer Stadium became obsolete in August of 2014 when the Nashville Sounds moved to a new stadium near Germantown in downtown Nashville. What's next for the Greer property has been the subject of much debate.
The Channel 4 I-Team has uncovered thousands of unsolved cases of violent robberies in Nashville.
(WSMV)A Channel 4 I-Team investigation found what potential victims of scammers described as a loophole in the payment system of the popular online payment method PayPal.
(WSMV)Bottles, cardboard boxes and soda cans are just some of what you'll find piled up high inside the Waste Management facility in East Nashville. But you'll also find it on the outside.
The Middle Tennessee Juvenile Detention Center in Columbia detains teens who have been accused of delinquent offenses. (WSMV)What the Channel 4 I-Team discovered through various records raised questions about how some troubled teens were getting treated at a local juvenile detention center.
Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility is the state's newest and largest prison. (WSMV)Octavious Taylor has a painful and incurable disease. It’s a bad combination when you’re locked up in prison.
Carl Dollarhide Jr. (WSMV file photo)Carl Dollarhide Jr. is now out of jail after serving about half of his sentence. Dollarhide was sentenced to three years in jail for killing a mother and leaving her 1-year-old daughter a paraplegic in a drunk-driving crash.
Leighton Ward (WSMV)In the picturesque town of Visalia, CA, Ronnie Osburn’s house fits right in with its beautiful flowers and statues.
The crash happened June 4 on I-24. (WSMV)The Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating whether an off-duty Murfreesboro Police officer caused a fatal wreck on I-24 in Rutherford County.
Trousdale Turner Correctional Center is located in Hartsville, TN. (WSMV)The Trousdale Turner Correctional Center was supposed to provide quality jobs to residents of Trousdale County. But according to the mayor and several other people the Channel 4 I-Team talked to, not many locals work there.
Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility is the state's newest and largest prison. (WSMV)Since last summer, the Channel 4 I-Team has been looking closely at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, the state’s newest and biggest prison. It is run by CoreCivic, the Nashville-based company formerly known as CCA.
Trousdale Turner Correctional Facility (WSMV)By design, prisons are places shut off from the rest of society. But the state’s newest and largest prison is unlike any other.
He was a financial adviser to the stars, and his actions years ago resulted in a felony conviction. That’s why several musicians contacted the Channel 4 I-Team after learning he had started a new business.
After nearly a year and more money than expected a flood control project is finally over. But not without costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars more than it should have.
A sitting Metro School Board member is criticizing how parents of students receive information.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Special report on our series Influence, Infidelity and Men in Power. (6/30/17)
More >>WEB EXCLUSIVE: Special report on our series Influence, Infidelity and Men in Power. (6/30/17)
More >>Former Davidson County General Sessions Judge Casey Moreland will not go to trial on June 27.
More >>Former Davidson County General Sessions Judge Casey Moreland will not go to trial on June 27.
More >>James Bratten is no choir boy. He was arrested on a felony drug charge in December 2014. What happened after that has Bratten's family and friends raising questions about a bonding company, its relationship to a well-known Nashville attorney, and what happened when the district attorney's office was asked to investigate.
More >>James Bratten is no choir boy. He was arrested on a felony drug charge in December 2014. What happened after that has Bratten's family and friends raising questions about a bonding company, its relationship to a well-known Nashville attorney, and what happened when the district attorney's office was asked to investigate.
More >>Brad Lewis' tattoos paint a portrait of a pretty rough character. But he said his older brother, who has been in the news a lot lately - prominent Nashville attorney Bryan Lewis - is even rougher.
More >>Brad Lewis' tattoos paint a portrait of a pretty rough character. But he said his older brother, who has been in the news a lot lately - prominent Nashville attorney Bryan Lewis - is even rougher.
More >>Casey Moreland has now been banned from practicing law.
More >>Casey Moreland has now been banned from practicing law.
More >>Just an hour after a Channel 4 I-Team investigation aired in February, a member of the Tennessee National Guard said a makeshift Molotov cocktail was thrown at his house.
More >>Just an hour after a Channel 4 I-Team investigation aired in February, a member of the Tennessee National Guard said a makeshift Molotov cocktail was thrown at his house.
More >>An assistant district attorney is asking Gov. Bill Haslam to look into the reasons why a lieutenant colonel remains employed with the Tennessee National Guard despite being convicted of two serious crimes.
More >>An assistant district attorney is asking Gov. Bill Haslam to look into the reasons why a lieutenant colonel remains employed with the Tennessee National Guard despite being convicted of two serious crimes.
More >>Additional findings by military investigators, obtained by the Channel 4 I-Team, show more improper behavior by a colonel who was denied general status but was then re-hired by the Tennessee National Guard.
More >>Additional findings by military investigators, obtained by the Channel 4 I-Team, show more improper behavior by a colonel who was denied general status but was then re-hired by the Tennessee National Guard.
More >>Despite a U.S. Army Inspector General investigation that found a colonel with the Tennessee National Guard failed to uphold military values for how he treated a young female officer and cost him a promotion to general, that official was later re-hired as a top administrator with the Tennessee National Guard, a Channel 4 I-Team investigation found.
More >>Despite a U.S. Army Inspector General investigation that found a colonel with the Tennessee National Guard failed to uphold military values for how he treated a young female officer and cost him a promotion to general, that official was later re-hired as a top administrator with the Tennessee National Guard, a Channel 4 I-Team investigation found.
More >>To black out all of the curse words in retired First Sgt. Dennis Carter’s resignation letter, you need a lot of marker. To hear him read it aloud, you need a lot of bleeps.
More >>To black out all of the curse words in retired First Sgt. Dennis Carter’s resignation letter, you need a lot of marker. To hear him read it aloud, you need a lot of bleeps.
More >>The highest-paid Metro general government employee is getting a big raise.
More >>The highest-paid Metro general government employee is getting a big raise.
More >>A Channel 4 I-Team investigation has found that at 60 schools in Middle Tennessee, students with disabilities received corporal punishment at a higher rate than their peers without disabilities.
More >>A Channel 4 I-Team investigation has found that at 60 schools in Middle Tennessee, students with disabilities received corporal punishment at a higher rate than their peers without disabilities.
More >>After one of the biggest scandals in history on Tennessee’s Capitol Hill, the General Assembly revised its policy on sexual harassment.
More >>After one of the biggest scandals in history on Tennessee’s Capitol Hill, the General Assembly revised its policy on sexual harassment.
More >>Special interest groups and organizations spent more than $960,000 on hosting in-state events for lawmakers in 2016 – the highest amount ever disclosed to the Tennessee Ethics Commission since 2006 when reporting became mandatory.
More >>Special interest groups and organizations spent more than $960,000 on hosting in-state events for lawmakers in 2016 – the highest amount ever disclosed to the Tennessee Ethics Commission since 2006 when reporting became mandatory.
More >>One of Davidson County’s top election officials was the subject of an internal investigation after he was accused of making an inappropriate racial comment.
More >>One of Davidson County’s top election officials was the subject of an internal investigation after he was accused of making an inappropriate racial comment.
More >>The highest-paid Metro general government employee is getting a big raise.
More >>The highest-paid Metro general government employee is getting a big raise.
More >>The Department of Human Services has been asked to pay $1.1 million to the federal government over “an erroneous approval” dealing with a federal program that feeds vulnerable children and adults.
More >>The Department of Human Services has been asked to pay $1.1 million to the federal government over “an erroneous approval” dealing with a federal program that feeds vulnerable children and adults.
More >>Numbers provided by the Tennessee Department of Human Services show 0.1 percent of welfare applicants in Tennessee have tested positive for drugs since 2014, when the law went into effect.
More >>Numbers provided by the Tennessee Department of Human Services show 0.1 percent of welfare applicants in Tennessee have tested positive for drugs since 2014, when the law went into effect.
More >>It’s a trip most people can only dream of: an all-expenses paid stay at a luxury beach resort. The Channel 4 I-Team has learned a group of education leaders took such a trip, and taxpayers picked up the bill.
More >>It’s a trip most people can only dream of: an all-expenses paid stay at a luxury beach resort. The Channel 4 I-Team has learned a group of education leaders took such a trip, and taxpayers picked up the bill.
More >>A lawmaker announced his plans to file a bill addressing legislative receptions following a Channel 4 I-Team investigation.
More >>A lawmaker announced his plans to file a bill addressing legislative receptions following a Channel 4 I-Team investigation.
More >>Jeremy Finley is the chief investigative reporter for the Channel 4 I-Team. He specializes in investigations into corruption, criminal activity and waste of taxpayer money.
More >>Jeremy Finley is the chief investigative reporter for the Channel 4 I-Team. He specializes in investigations into corruption, criminal activity and waste of taxpayer money.
More >>Alanna joined the WSMV news team in June 2014 after two years chasing stories in the heart of West Virginia's coalfields as a reporter.
More >>Alanna joined the WSMV news team in June 2014 after two years chasing stories in the heart of West Virginia's coalfields as a reporter.
More >>Lindsay Bramson joined the WSMV team as an investigative reporter in June 2016.
More >>Lindsay Bramson joined the WSMV team as an investigative reporter in June 2016.
More >>Our next weather maker to watch could bring rain by late Thursday with a few lingering showers possible Friday into very early Saturday.
More >>Our next weather maker to watch could bring rain by late Thursday with a few lingering showers possible Friday into very early Saturday.
More >>A judge has denied a motion by the University of Dayton to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a former student claiming the school covered up allegations of football team hazing by not disclosing a campus police...
More >>A judge has denied a motion by the University of Dayton to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a former student claiming the school covered up allegations of football team hazing by not disclosing a campus police investigation to...
More >>An Ohio brewery will skip the hops and barley to produce 2 million cans of water for disaster victims.
More >>An Ohio brewery will skip the hops and barley to produce 2 million cans of water for disaster victims.
More >>An Ohio sheriff's deputy has pleaded not guilty to charges for allegedly raping a 26-year-old woman inside his county-issued cruiser.
More >>An Ohio sheriff's deputy has pleaded not guilty to charges for allegedly raping a 26-year-old woman inside his county-issued cruiser.
More >>A northeastern Ohio sheriff says inmates considered at risk of overdosing on opioids will be given overdose antidote kits when they're released from jail under a pilot project.
More >>A northeastern Ohio sheriff says inmates considered at risk of overdosing on opioids will be given overdose antidote kits when they're released from jail under a pilot project.
More >>What do you really know about Friday the 13th?
More >>What do you really know about Friday the 13th?
More >>The gingerbread house at The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain in Arizona is in a category all by itself- life-size.
More >>Metro police have an astonishing number. During the week of July 9, police say 81 percent of the cars stolen were easy targets because the keys were left inside, or were made available to thieves.
More >>Metro police have an astonishing number. During the week of July 9, police say 81 percent of the cars stolen were easy targets because the keys were left inside, or were made available to thieves.
More >>Metro police are apologizing to a man after it took five hours to respond to a burglar alarm. But police say they aren't to blame and that the city's communications center made a serious mistake.
More >>Metro police are apologizing to a man after it took five hours to respond to a burglar alarm. But police say they aren't to blame and that the city's communications center made a serious mistake.
More >>If you should need to go to the hospital, you would obviously expect your room to be clean. That’s what one family assumed until they took a second look during a visit.
More >>If you should need to go to the hospital, you would obviously expect your room to be clean. That’s what one family assumed until they took a second look during a visit.
More >>The son of a former Nashville assistant district attorney has been charged with a serious drug offense and it’s raising questions about his treatment in the courts and his criminal past.
More >>The son of a former Nashville assistant district attorney has been charged with a serious drug offense and it’s raising questions about his treatment in the courts and his criminal past.
More >>A high-end Nashville hotel had to pay a fine after giving massages without a license.
More >>A high-end Nashville hotel had to pay a fine after giving massages without a license.
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Toledo Fire and Rescue crews kept a kitchen fire from spreading into other parts of an apartment building Monday morning.
More >>Toledo Fire and Rescue crews kept a kitchen fire from spreading into other parts of an apartment building Monday morning.
More >>There can be nothing more frustrating than orange barrels getting in the way of your commute, especially if that project gets delayed.
More >>There can be nothing more frustrating than orange barrels getting in the way of your commute, especially if that project gets delayed.
More >>Bass Pro Shops is thanking their customers with a sweet treat.
More >>Bass Pro Shops is thanking their customers with a sweet treat.
More >>A man accused of arson will face a judge on Monday.
More >>A man accused of arson will face a judge on Monday.
More >>A home was shot at after a domestic argument Sunday evening.
More >>A home was shot at after a domestic argument Sunday evening.
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