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1. Gov. Bill Lee hesitant to call special session on Nashville honky-tonk taxes (wpln.org) — Downtown Nashville honky-tonk owners are caught in a fight over higher property taxes, but Gov. Bill Lee is resisting calls for a special legislative session to intervene. Instead, he and Mayor Freddie O'Connell are discussing a longer-term fix that could balance business relief with the city budget, after O'Connell proposed a flat-spending budget earlier this year.
2. Man charged nearly 4 years after 19-year-old killed in South Nashville (newschannel5.com) — Metro Nashville Police have charged 35-year-old Deshawn Joyner with criminal homicide in the 2022 killing of 19-year-old Pablo Ical-Caz, found shot in a burning car at Southern Hills Condominiums in South Nashville. New witness interviews, combined with earlier ballistics evidence tying a recovered handgun to the shooting, led detectives to secure the arrest while Joyner was already jailed on a separate robbery case.
3. North Nashville family still fighting with insurance company six months after house fire (wsmv.com) — A North Nashville family is still displaced six months after their Delk Avenue home burned following power restoration during last winter's ice storm, and they say their insurer Allstate hasn't offered enough to make the house safe. With elderly, medically fragile parents and concerns about structural and health risks, they're pushing for adequate repairs while relying on community support and a GoFundMe.
4. Body camera footage shows last time 31-year-old was last seen in Nashville (newschannel5.com) — Metro police are searching for 31-year-old Colorado visitor Conor Anderson, who vanished after a night out in East Nashville and a brief body-camera-recorded interaction with officers early Sunday. He'd been staying at a North Nashville hotel for a work conference and attended a Nissan Stadium concert, and investigators are asking anyone with information to contact police.
5. Pay to skip traffic: Tennessee picks company to build I-24 choice lanes (newschannel5.com) — Drivers between Nashville and Murfreesboro face big changes as Tennessee selects Drive-TN to build optional toll-based "Choice Lanes" on 26 miles of I-24, with construction starting in 2027. South Nashville neighbors worry about losing homes and new elevated highways, while TDOT says revised designs spare some properties and promises public meetings at Nashville's Pruitt Library and in Smyrna next month.
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