Mother charged with child abuse after beating 15-year-old who stole candy bar from store

Jenita Jones, 39, remains in a Nashville jail this morning in lieu of a $5,000 bond. She is charged with child abuse and domestic assault, after police say she punched her 15-year-old daughter with her fists, and then hit her in the face with a belt, as punishment for stealing a candy bar and a bag of chips from a store.

Metro to settle excessive use-of-force lawsuit against Sheriff’s Dept for $160,000.00

Metro Nashville is set to settle an excessive use-of-force lawsuit against the Davidson County Sheriff’s Department for $110,000.00, with an additional $50,000.00 allotted for attorney fees. While being booked, Timothy Warren was punched in the face, knocked to the ground, his body repeatedly slammed onto the floor, resulting in multiple physical injuries, including a broken fibula, a right ankle fracture, ankle dislocation, and facial lacerations.

Metro Council set to vote on “Encouraging” NES to round-up your payment each month, without your permission

NES isn’t getting enough people to ‘opt-in’ to round their bill up to the next whole dollar, to benefit their ‘Home Energy Uplift’ program, so they’re asking the Metro Council for their blessing to OPT-IN every single Nashvillian  to the program, without asking their for permission, increasing the amount they pay each month. The council will vote on the resolution Wednesday night.

Reality TV star Julie Chrisley served with $157K civil judgment

Julie Chrisley finds herself back in a Nashville courtroom this month, fighting yet another financial judgment against her. In June we reported on the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office serving a judge’s order to enter the Nashville home of Julie Chrisley (of Chrisley Knows Best fame) and seize her clothing, jewelry, and other personal property, to satisfy a $20,802.87 judgment that the reality TV star had not paid. The new judgment is more than 7x that amount.

Man found asleep in stolen car, in the middle of the road, with hollow point bullets in loaded pistol & counterfeit money

Erik Hooks-Williams, 19, was arrested on Saturday, after he was found asleep in a stolen car, in the middle of a street in East Nashville, with a loaded pistol in his shorts, hollow point bullets, and counterfeit money in his car.