MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WSMV) - Murfreesboro city leaders are calling for more transparency on an expansion to the Middle Point Landfill. The city filed a lawsuit against BFI Waste Systems of Tennessee.

Murfreesboro government notified Middle Point Landfill about more solid waste environmental violations, the city reported Oct. 27. The violations include leachate entering dry run-off ditches, ...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) — Murfreesboro City Council unanimously approved annexing the land Middle Point Landfill sits on Thursday evening. However, what that means exactly is a bit murky. “To the ...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Murfreesboro City Council has voted to annex the Middle Point Landfill into city limits during Thursday night’s meeting. The decision was made with an unanimous 6-0 ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Donald Trump at the White House in a de facto Middle East summit on Monday. The two represent collectively the sole superpower in that ...

PAULDING — A Middle Point man earlier this month was ordered to pay $120,000 in restitution to his former employer as part of his sentence for stealing fuel. Keith Hill, 53, of Middle Point, was ...

Middle Point Landfill management pitched expansion Tuesday after facing opposition the previous week from the Rutherford County and Murfreesboro mayors. Landfill general manager Mike Classen spoke to ...

Two students fired pepper spray inside a Queens middle school cafeteria — injuring 20 kids and four staffers, police said. The chaos erupted around 12:45 p.m. Friday when two female students — ages 12 ...

Middle Point Landfill management dropped a court appeal on a previously rejected 99-acre expansion, a Middle Point spokeswoman announced. A Davidson County Chancery Court judge in 2023 upheld a 2021 ...

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — For hundreds of Rutherford County residents, their neighbor is quite literally a dump. Middle Point Landfill, sometimes referred to as Mount Trashmore, has piled up ...

Two Rutherford County mayors propose a future public solid waste solution and oppose expansion of the private Middle Point Landfill. Murfreesboro Mayor Shane McFarland and Rutherford County Mayor Joe ...

Top students can benefit greatly by being offered the subject early. But many districts offer few Black and Latino eighth graders a chance to study it. By Troy Closson From suburbs in the Northeast to ...