
Emily West
Digital Producer at WTVF-TV (Nashville,TN)
Digital Producer at Talk of the Town
@NC5 now. @Tennessean alum. Award-winning journalist: 2X Emmy-nominated, Associated Press, TPA, TBA. I wear combat boots with my pearls.
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newschannel5.com | Emily West
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) - Mayor Freddie O'Connell is under fire after Congressman Andy Ogles is spurring a federal investigation against Nashville's top leader. This derives from when the Tennessee Highway Patrol pulled over people in south Nashville, and undocumented drivers were turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Rep.
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newschannel5.com | Emily West
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) - The FBI has now released pages and pages of entries of The Covenant School shooter's journals. Those journals were previously tied up in a public records court case in the Tennessee court system. In early April, the Metro Nashville Police Department released a 48-page summary report, which painted a picture of the mental health of Aubrey Hale. In March 2023, Hale killed three students and three staff members at school.
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newschannel5.com | Emily West
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (WTVF) - The Tennessee Office of the Comptroller investigated a Franklin nonprofit, where the state found it spent more than $250,000 on its credit cards and couldn't support the charges. The Davis House Advocacy Center is under the microscope for its spending from 2020 to 2024. Based in Franklin, the nonprofit helps children who were abused. They help kids who faced sexual abuse and physical trauma in Williamson, Hickman, Lewis and Perry Counties.
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newschannel5.com | Emily West
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) - An investigation into a Metro Nashville Public Schools teacher found she taped a student to a chair multiple times as an act to discipline a first grade student. The teacher, Donielle Rhone, has now resigned effective immediately from Mt. View Elementary School as a first grade teacher. An investigation found she taped a student to his chair and desk on multiple occasions.
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newschannel5.com | Emily West
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) - Employees said a domestic dispute broke the glass of a high-rise hotel in downtown Nashville during Memorial Day weekend. The incident happened at the Omni Hotel in downtown, located at Rep. John Lewis Way South. A marketing spokesperson said on X/Twitter that no one was hurt. The suspect Jason L. O'Donnell was arrested for domestic assault, according to a police affidavit.
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