Stuart Brunson, deputy governor and chief of staff to Gov. Phil Bredesen, will step down from his post Friday.

Monette Bowen, 20, is facing a handful of charges related to at least three robberies at gunpoint of elderly women outside their homes in October and November.

Overall crime fell in Nashville for an unprecedented fifth consecutive year in 2008, according to unofficial statistics provided by the Metro Police Department.

Stuart Brunson, deputy governor and chief of staff to Gov. Phil Bredesen, will step down from his post Friday.

Monette Bowen, 20, is facing a handful of charges related to at least three robberies at gunpoint of elderly women outside their homes in October and November.

Overall crime fell in Nashville for an unprecedented fifth consecutive year in 2008, according to unofficial statistics provided by the Metro Police Department.

The active engagement in public education by Nashville’s business community draws both pride and ire from those involved in Metro schools.

Ever since former Tennessee Republican Party chairman and RNC chair candidate Chip Saltsman sent out his Christmas gift of a CD that included the song “Barack the Magic Negro” he has gotten world wide attention.

The legal wrangling is over, the Metro Council debate no longer matters and there will be no more emotionally charged Election Commission meetings.

Two groups of demonstrators formed around the state capital on Wednesday and held up signs begging for peace in Gaza, while also blaming the other side for the recent spike in violence there.SLIDESHOW

An accelerated hiring process could lead to director of schools candidate Jesse Register being hired by Nashville’s school board next week.

Kidnapping suspect Adriene Johnson, Metro Police say, dressed herself in medical scrubs, snuck into the maternity wing of Metro Nashville General Hospital and attempted to kidnap a newborn baby from her mother’s arms on Wednesday morning.

Metro Police say they arrested a paroled ex-convict in connection with a Belle Meade home invasion and kidnapping.

You’re the new guy replacing a popular mayor in a time of a historically bad economy. Right away, the biggest issues you have to tackle — the sagging school system, a fresh Sommet Center lease for the new Nashville Predators owners, and a proposed $600-plus million convention center development — were already coming down the pike before you ever got elected.

As I navigated my son’s stroller through the press of holiday shoppers at Opry Mills last week, I could hear the high-pitched shrieks of a small boy in the midst of one very loud tantrum.

Jesse Register could be hired as director of Nashville schools on Jan. 13 or earlier, but the timing of a contract adoption is a “moot point” until negotiations are complete, school board chair David Fox said Monday.

In the middle of last week's Christmas holiday break, we learned that another Tennessee politico put the spotlight on our state and made the rest of the nation ask once again, "What's in the water down there?"

The meeting resulting in selection of Jesse Register as Nashville’s next director of schools was long and tortuous, extending over six hours last Saturday with few breaks.

Voters unsure of how they will vote on the English Only referendum at the Jan. 22 special election might be interested to find out that Metro departments don’t know how the charter amendment proposal would tangibly change the way they do business.

We don’t exactly have the best record when it comes to outdoor holiday lights.