The local investors group that is seeking to purchase the Nashville Predators began direct negotiations with Mayor Karl Dean late last week. More

Middle Tennessee’s population of young adults is climbing. And so is the amount of money being invested in obstetrics care by local hospitals. More

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Stax Records had enjoyed plenty of international success by the mid-‘60s, but their artists had never done a European tour. But with their acts enormously popular on both sides of the Atlantic it only made good sense for the company to finally make the plunge and send its performers to various overseas concert sites. More

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This Friday, MBA coach Daniel McGugin won’t be at the table eating the good chow at the 63rd annual MBA Spaghetti Supper prior to his team’s homecoming game with Ensworth. More

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In a Friday afternoon speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., House Majority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) endorsed the idea first put forward by Nashville’s U.S. Representative Jim Cooper and a small bipartisan group to form a non-partisan commission to confront the nation’s looming fiscal crisis. More

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Court of Appeals Judge William B. Cain of Columbia has died of cancer. He was 75 years old. More

The Metro Sports Authority has scheduled a meeting of its Finance Committee for 9:30 a.m. next Wednesday. The committee will likely consider a set of proposed lease changes to the Sommet Center/Nashville Predators lease in advance of a positive vote by the full board that will need to take place by Friday, Oct. 5. More

Peter Berg’s The Kingdom, which opens today, has received considerable speculation as being perhaps the film that will utilize the backdrop of 9/11 and terrorism and prove both a critical and commercial success. In all likelihood, it’s going to do quite well on the fiscal side. Berg’s cast some big and popular names in key roles such as Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman and Jeremy Piven, and the locales are often visually stunning, especially the scenes done in the United Arab Emirates. More

FRANKLIN — Although criticized by analysts and conservative pundits, Fred Thompson denied Thursday that his presidential campaign had made mistakes and said his launch had been nothing but “good news.” More

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A year after the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce named Ralph Schulz its new president, the economic development organization will announce changes to its image and mission statement at a membership meeting Oct. 9 where it says a “new” Chamber will be unveiled. More

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On the bus to and from Fort Campbell, Ky., they were Nashville Predators, but as soon as they entered the gates of the military base they were nothing but recruits for the day. More

FRANKLIN – Although criticized by analysts and conservative pundits, Fred Thompson denied today that his infant presidential campaign had made mistakes and said his launch had been nothing but “good news.” More

Nashville Scene publisher Chris Ferrell will step down next week to start up a new media company with an unnamed local investor, Ferrell told The City Paper Thursday. More