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Well, here's a way to get a quick five gallons of gas, I guess. Run your car out of fuel on the local freeways. Just be sure to do it in someone else's lane, okay?

Knox County Commissioners jumped from the ropes and put the atomic elbow to the toll road idea.  The vote?  18-1 against the blasted idea! But there’s always a but in there somewhere…

This is turning into a running joke. We keep hearing that TDOT will listen to the people on toll roads. At the first meeting the public spoke up. If I recall correctly 18 people spoke out against toll roads 2 spoke in favor. The commission voted in favor of doing an expensive study for toll roads.

Maybe, maybe not:

It remains unclear how much of a break Tennesseans would get if Congress approved either proposal.

Ben Cunningham has made an important discovery. Even if John McCain’s idea for a reduction in the gas tax becomes a reality, Tennesseans won’t see any relief at the pump.

State Senate Transportation Chairman Jim Tracy (R-Shelbyville) and State Rep. Curt Cobb (D-Shelbyville) have announced that the Tennessee Department of Transportation has included the Shelbyville...

Tennessee Department of Transportation officials announced today that the agency plans to convert North Main into a one-way street beginning in January 2009. "We've been getting many, many complaints...

It's too early to tell whether a rescission of $66.3 million in federal funding to the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) would impact Bedford County, according to Sen. Jim Tracy. But...

I didn’t know Mr. Montgomery since I’m a johnny-come-lately to LaVergne (five years in June).  However, reading about his life, he must’ve been an amazing, kind person.  Here’s some of what he accomplished on behalf of LaVergne.

Montgomery was a charter member of the La Vergne Lions and Men’s clubs. The Men’s Club was the city’s lea

A Maury County School bus driver has been suspended after Spring Hill elementary first grader Patrick Bartley was allegedly left alone on a school bus for hours.

Maury County School Board Attorney, Jake Wolover confirms to News 2, that bus driver Jerry Erwin was suspended for two days without pay. The driver is now back on the job.

When the suspension began is unclear.

Wolover adds; a formal letter of reprimand was put in Erwin’s file.