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Nashville, Tennessee —The Tennessee Department of Safety (TDOS) is opening a new Driver License Station in McMinnville, TN, and closing the one currently located at 167 Cadillac Lane.  The new facility will be located at 1350 Sparta Street, McMinnville, Tennessee.

Nashville, Tennessee —The Tennessee Department of Safety reminds drivers that reinstatement services are being added to more driver license centers every month to better serve customers.   Seventeen counties across the state now have driver license centers that offer reinstatement services.

Nashville, Tennessee — A Tennessee State Trooper stopped a 1999 Suburban on I-75 Thursday evening and seized nearly 600 pounds of marijuana.

Nashville, Tennessee —A 24-year veteran of the Tennessee Highway Patrol is hospitalized in intensive care after being involved in a two-car crash Tuesday night.  It happened at approximately 9:00 p.m. on State Route 105 near Bradford, TN, in Gibson County.

Nashville, Tennessee —The Tennessee Department of Safety is working to continue to reduce the number of traffic fatalities in 2008 by participating in three enforcement initiatives aimed at saving lives on Tennessee roadways.

Nashville, Tennessee —Tennessee Highway Patrol investigators have located the driver and the tractor trailer they believe hit a Trooper’s patrol car Saturday night in McMinn County.

Nashville, Tennessee —This month marks the 30th anniversary of the nation’s first child safety seat law.  Tennessee was the first state in the nation to enact a law making it mandatory for children to be restrained in a safety seat.

Nashville, Tennessee —A Tennessee State Trooper stopped an 18-wheeler on I-40 Sunday afternoon in Jefferson County and ended up seizing 63 kilos of cocaine.

Nashville, Tennessee —The Tennessee Highway Patrol is looking for the driver of a tractor trailer that hit a Trooper’s vehicle late Saturday night and did not stop.

Nashville, Tennessee —A woman wanted in Washington, D.C. for grand theft is being held in the Cumberland County Jail after a Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper stopped the vehicle she was riding in for speeding on Interstate 40.