PHOENIX — The Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville led to phone and data service outages and disruptions over hundreds of miles in the southern U.S., raising new concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. communications. The blast seriously damaged a key AT&T network facility, an important hub that provides local wireless, internet and...
Nashville Man’s Girlfriend Warned He Was Building Bombs
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — More than a year before Anthony Warner detonated a bomb in downtown Nashville on Christmas, officers visited his home after his girlfriend told police that he was building bombs in an RV trailer at his residence, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. But they were...
Nashville Bomber Left Hints of Trouble, but Motive Elusive
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In the days before he detonated a bomb in downtown Nashville on Christmas, Anthony Quinn Warner changed his life in ways that suggest he never intended to survive the blast that killed him and wounded three other people. Warner, 63, gave away his car, telling the recipient...
After Naming Bombing Suspect, Focus Turns to Motive
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — With federal officials having identified the man believed to be behind Nashville's Christmas Day bombing, authorities now turn to the monumental task of piecing together the motive behind the explosion that severely damaged dozens of downtown buildings and injured three people. While officials on Sunday named Anthony...
Silicon Valley Biotech Firm Plans Move to Nashville With New 150 Jobs
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Silicon Valley biotech company is planning to invest $10 million and create 150 new jobs over five year by moving its headquarters to Nashville. The state Department of Economic and Community Development says Revance Therapeutics would create 150 more jobs on top of its 450 workers...
Soundtrack City: How Nashville Is Awash in Film, Game Scores
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Nashville is already known as Music City, but a new wave of music being recorded there for video games, TV shows and movies could earn it a new title as Soundtrack City. “Nashville has become one of the two or three major places to record in the...
Authorities: Someone Illegally Shot Luke Bryan's Red Stag
COLUMBIA, Tenn. — An exotic red stag owned by country music singer Luke Bryan was shot and killed on his private property outside of Nashville last week, Tennessee wildlife officials confirmed. Investigators think the deer was shot from the road, state Wildlife Resources Agency spokesman Barry Cross told The Tennessean on Monday....
Nashville Sheriff Reveals Johnny Cash Was Once Deputized
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A sheriff has presented the Johnny Cash Museum proof that the late musician who famously cultivated an image as an outlaw was in fact granted law enforcement authority decades ago. This week, Nashville Sheriff Daron Hall gave a blown-up image of Cash's September 1979 deputy sheriff commission card. It...
Rested and Revived, The Black Keys Return After 5-Year Break
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — When the Black Keys last played a festival together in 2015, there was no grand plan to go an indefinite hiatus. They just stopped booking shows and they went home to Nashville, Tennessee to sleep in their own beds. Now four years after their performance at Outside...
Bob Dylan Whiskey Distillery to Open Fall 2020 in Nashville
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — More information is being released about music icon Bob Dylan's project in downtown Nashville in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of his "Nashville Skyline" album. Dylan is set to help open a whiskey distillery in fall 2020 under the brand "Heaven's Door." A news release says Heaven's...