Nashville News Blog

Lawyers sue for documents relating to last year's incarceration of Juana Villegas, the illegal immigrant who was nine months pregnant and on the verge of childbirth, after a routine stop for a minor traffic violation.... Does the IRS owe you money for a change? Find out here.... Despite yesterday's setback, Common Cause Tennessee continues to push for paper ballots for the 2010 election.... Convention center supporters, um, support the convention center (who knew?), while Metro Council members get "The Hot Box Treatment."... A Dickson soldier stationed at Fort Hood shares his experience during yesterday's Fort Hood rampage, and a Nashville mosque speaks out against the attack.... A spry, energetic Leonard Cohen captivates a TPAC crowd for three hours. When you're 75, you should be so lucky.... How big of a hotshot were you in kindergarten? Not as big as Spring Hill 5-year-old Josh Sacco, the Kurt Russell-imitating YouTube phenom....

And finally, a federal grand jury indicts Hanover Corp. CEO Terry Kretz and CFO Robert Haley on fraud and conspiracy charges for their Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of $18 million. Kretz and several other parties involved in the case are/were parishioners at Pastor Maury Davis' Cornerstone Church in Madison. And to help guide your way to a productive Friday, we offer these words of inspiration from Kretz, in a 2007 deposition:

"The whole premise of Hanover Corporation was to help people who had lost money in the market in general. You know, our whole thing was about a regeneration of funds for folks. That was our premise. And then alongside of that is - we're believers in Jesus Christ and religious people, and our thing was to fund the Kingdom of God, and that is where we stand with it."