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-NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Fire crews were called around 1 a.m. Monday to an apartment fire at the 100 block of Matthew Lane, which is just off Hillsboro Road.
Investigators said they believe the fire started as a grease fire in the kitchen of one unit. That unit was completely gutted.
No one was hurt, but the family's cat died.
An upstairs unit was damaged by smoke and water.

-NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Police were searching Tuesday morning for the gunman responsible for injuring a man during a home invasion at an apartment near Old Hickory.
Officials reported an apartment on Cheyenne Boulevard was broken into around 11:30 Monday night. One man living in that residence was shot in the leg.
He is expected to recover from his injuries.
Police did not know the identity of the gunman.

-BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Police in Bowling Green are investigating the murder of a math professor at Western Kentucky University. Police said they found the body of Professor Bettina Richmond around 11:30 p.m. Sunday.
Investigators said Richmond was found dead inside her tan-colored Honda Odessey van. Police said she died of a single injury, and it was not an accident.
"Everybody is just basically stunned," said longtime colleague John Spraker.
Her vehicle was in the parking lot of the Bowling Green Parks and Recreation building on 3rd Avenue. She had been playing racquetball there.
Professor Richmond is survived by her husband and two children. She had taught at Western Kentucky for 23 years, and her husband Tom is also a member of Western's math department.
Richmond took a leave of absence this semester and last semester to care for her ailing parents in Germany. One parent has died.
If you know who was behind what happened or if you saw Richmond on Sunday, call the Bowling Green Police Department.

-(AP) HOUSTON - Rob Bironas kicked a 53-yard field goal with less than a minute remaining and the Tennessee Titans beat the Houston Texans 20-17 for their fourth straight victory after an 0-6 start.
The Texans (5-5) had a chance to tie it, but Kris Brown's 49-yard attempt with 1 second remaining was wide left. It was his second miss of the game, and the second straight game he's missed a chance to send the Texans to overtime.
The Titans (4-6) haven't lost since Vince Young took over at quarterback.
He is 2-0 as a starter in his hometown of Houston after running for the winning touchdown in overtime in his last start as a rookie in 2006.

-SPRING HILL — Police Chief John Smith failed a random drug test of city employees and will undergo counseling as outlined in the Tennessee Drug Free Workplace Act.City Administrator Victor Lay said Smith came to him last Monday immediately after the test earlier that day in Franklin.
"He showed positive for codeine," Lay said. "He said he had taken Tylenol with codeine which was from an old prescription."
Smith told Lay that he recognized the weight of the situation, given http://www.williamsoncounty-tn.gov/Sheriff Ricky Headley's arrest two years ago for illegally obtaining prescription painkillers from a Nashville pharmacy.
"I have nothing to hide," Smith said. "It was a one-time incident. I am not addicted to painkillers."
Smith said he was sore from moving furniture when he took the last two pills of Tylenol 3 and threw away the bottle. A few days later, he was drawn for the random drug testing.
The city had the option to terminate Smith or to require counseling, which will be arranged through Williamson County WorkForce Essentials, the same entity that conducts the random drug tests for the city. Lay said Smith is being treated just as any city employee would be. Had Smith been able to produce the bottle as proof of his prescription, Smith would not be required to undergo counseling, he said. The counselor will determine if this is isolated or a more serious situation that requires rehabilitation, Lay said. Smith will be required to take six random drug tests in the next year, at his own expense, and more if the counselor determines it is needed.
"The process will discover the gravity of the issue," Lay said.
All city employees are subject to the random drug tests, which are administered monthly, said Robin Dunn, vice president of the Business Services Division for Workforce Essentials.

-America Online has dropped its famous "running man" logo in favor of a series of icons in which the A-O-L acronym is stamped over various images, including a goldfish and a green squiggle. Execs say the new logo will reflect A-O-L's primary position as a content provider, as opposed to an Internet service provider.

-The Large Hadron Collider, the panic-inducing 17-mile particle accelerator built underneath Switzerland and France, banged some protons into each other yesterday, the first successful test of the 10-billion-dollar facility since an accident days after its unveiling forced its shutdown more than a year ago. The goal of the project is to replicate the conditions which led to the so-called Big Bang creation of the universe.

-Lupe Fiasco and John Legend are among the music stars appearing in The People Speak, a documentary on the history of the United States set to premiere on the History channel on December 13th. Inspired by and based on co-executive producer Howard Zinn's books, A People's History of the United States, the film features readings of actual letters and documents done by such celebrities as Don Cheadle, Kerry Washington, Rosario Dawson and Jasmine Guy.
Lupe plans to release a mixtape on Thanksgiving. He tells M-T-V, "The last six months, it's been like, 'I gotta really, really go out there and show that I'm nicer than all of them.' It's like, 'All right, so be it. If it takes three more albums to do it, then so be it.'"

-Rivals 50 Cent and The Game will both have guest spots on Dr. Dre's long-awaited Detox disc. During a recent press conference for his new Beats by Dre headphone line in New York, Dre said, "Everything is good. Both guys are gonna be on my record. And you know, I'm just trying to put it back where it's supposed to be, all love."
Dre still hasn't settled on a release date for Detox. He explains, "The minute it's done and it feels right to me, that's when it'll come out. Hopefully in the beginning of the year."

-The long-delayed celebration of Motown's 50th anniversary finally took place Saturday night in Detroit and the event wound up doubling as an early birthday party for the company's famed founder. Berry Gordy, who turns 80 this Saturday, was saluted by Motown legends Stevie Wonder and The Temptations, Detroit native Aretha Franklin and a crowd that included Martha Reeves, Eddie and Brian Holland and original Miracles Bobby Rogers and Claudette Robinson.
The gala at the Detroit Marriott was actually the annual fundraiser for the city's Motown Historical Museum, which is located at the 26-48 West Grand Boulevard house that spawned the most famous black-owned label of the rock era.
Gordy told the crowd, "Motown was about love and competition... Sometime the competition overcame the love and it was hard, but...we can't not love each other." The music mogul was trailed by a film crew all night, which was shooting footage for an upcoming documentary on him.

-November 24, 1868-Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime, was born on this day in 1868 in Texarkana, Texas. A skilled pianist and composer, Joplin started a 20-year ragtime craze with the release of his composition "Maple Leaf Rag" in 1897, during the Gay Nineties. Ragtime-scored piano music-at the time was considered Negro tavern and brothel music. Its tinny sound was the source of the name Tin Pan Alley, the center of ragtime in New York City. The lack of recognition of ragtime as a serious African-American musical art form plagued Joplin throughout his life. He died in an asylum in New York City on April 1, 1917, at the age of 49.

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