Evan Mealins

Reviewing records of ICE, THP immigration operation in Nashville - Nashville Banner A review of records from ICE and THP's immigration sting in Nashville raises concerns about racial profiling and lack of transparency. Advocates demand accountability.

A Banner analysis of 1,700 pages of incident reports from the May ICE sting shows that the Tennessee Highway Patrol rarely documented traffic stops. Of the 607 total reports, only approximately 14% provided a reason for the initial traffic stop.

We're awaiting a ruling from Chancellor Moskal on the constitutionality of the National Guard deployment to Memphis.

The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office is suing a Nashville-based nonprofit that sends veterans into disaster areas , accusing its chief executive Britnie Turner of depositing a $1 million charitable donation into one of her many for-profit companies.

New today: We dug into the company behind last week's explosion. While it has a good reputation, there were other issues. Among them, its president's 2008 guilty plea to destruction of government property related to a product it made for the U.S. Navy.

New Covenant Christian Church hosted a legal clinic to help people address outstanding court costs or have eligible criminal convictions expunged. @evanmealins.bsky.social wrote about the partnership with a local judge & the faith community on restorative justice: www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

In North Nashville this weekend, 59 people had a criminal conviction expunged, and $145,544.80 in court cost and fines were waived for people declared indigent.

Tennessee has set execution dates for four people, including Christa Pike, the lone woman on death row. If Pike is put to death, she would be the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years.

Tennessee crime lab at max capacity, backlog to grow without intervention: Report

Once a kickboxer with an active social life, college freshman Liza Bandy couldn’t walk up the stairs from the dorm laundry room. She knew something was wrong.

Nashville student sues Sewanee after developing chronic illness from dorm mold

Bob Mendes is leaving the mayor's office:

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Yesterday's Charlie Kirk vigil in Gallatin ended with a synthetic audio clip that imitated Kirk's voice. The Kirk voice introduced his "new friends," computer-generated voices of Christian martyrs like Paul the Apostle, Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter.

Before today's announcement, @LucasFinton reported the Memphis mayor, the governor and Sen. Hagerty were all blindsided by the prospect of a National Guard deployment to Memphis

A group of Vanderbilt University students are planning to start a Turning Point USA chapter on campus in response to Charlie Kirk's death.
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A new warden is taking over at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, the third this year:

Students as young as five will now receive gun safety training in school. The training covers identifying the parts of a gun and instructs students to leave the area of a gun and tell an adult.

oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been let out of jail.

This is the biggest story people aren't talking about. If this ruling stands, there are dozens to hundreds of people in TN prisons or on parole who should be set free.

From @kirstenfiscus.bsky.social and @craigshoup.bsky.social: Nashville PD arrested ex-Tennessee lawyer 4 times in 6 months. His girlfriend is now dead

Very informative story. I had no idea that this kind of outcome could happen.

An unusual situation is playing out in Nashville's courts and jails.

After Nashville grand jury said evidence was lacking, defendants got extra jail time

Judge orders receiver to take over Uncle Nearest, TN whiskey brand facing $108M lawsuit CEO Fawn Weaver said in a video on Instagram after the ruling, "I built this company, I own this company, I run this company."

Uncle Nearest is going under a receivership.

From today: U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Columbia, has incurred more than $120,000 in legal and consulting fees related to investigations into reporting errors in his campaign finance reports.

Attorneys have given closing arguments in the fraud trial of Mark Janbakhsh, the founder of Plaza Mariachi accused of overstating the collateral at his used car dealership chain to defraud two banks of $24 million.

Judge Randall Wyatt, who District Attorney Glenn Funk said was the best man he ever knew, died early this morning. His son and friends shared memories and stories with me. Read here:

Byron Black's defibrillator did not shock him during execution, attorney says

Tennessee executes Byron Black despite concerns about heart device: 'It's hurting so bad' Byron Black, 69, was executed for the 1988 South Nashville murders of his ex-girlfriend Angela Clay and her two daughters Latoya, 9, and Lakeisha, 6.

Byron Black has been executed by the state of Tennessee, showing "visible signs of distress," according to several media witnesses who watched him die. He told his spiritual advisor at one point, "It's hurting so bad."

TN warden resigns after 2023 investigation surfaces, showing sexual messages with inmate She was hired by the Tennessee prison department while under investigation in Kentucky, records show.

The warden at Tennessee's women prison has resigned after the results of an investigation from her employment with a Kentucky prison surfaced, showing she sent sexually explicit messages to an inmate.

Three finalists picked for vacant Nashville criminal court judge seat; Gov. Lee to select The finalists to replace Nashville Judge Cheryl Blackburn, who retired in May, include a lower court judge, a prosecutor and a defense attorney.

The Trial Court Vacancy Commission selected three finalists for the empty seat left by Judge Cheryl Blackburn.