11/18/10 Rutherford County can continue to issue more building permits to the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro for construction of a new mosque, Chancellor Robert Corlew III ruled Wednesday.
11/17/10 A Rutherford County grand jury returned 128 indictments this month, including a charge of first-degree murder against a man who police said ran over a pedestrian on Old Fort Parkway in August.
11/16/10 County attorneys will head for closing arguments Wednesday after their only witness testified Monday that the government's Islamic Center of Murfreesboro site plan approval was legal.
11/15/10 A land-use expert testified this morning that Rutherford County broke no laws in the way it approved the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro's site plans May 24.
11/15/10 The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro expects to seek a building permit within four months to construct its future community center on Veals Road despite a lawsuit intended to stop the project.
11/13/10 A handwriting expert testified Friday that Essam Fathy's signature on a May 7 site plan application for the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro differs from the same name signed on two related documents.
11/12/10 Essam Fathy, a founding member of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, confirmed this afternoon that his formal signature is not on the May 7 site plan application to build a new ICM building.
10/24/10 With the name Rabbit Foot Farm, good luck surely would be the norm for its owners.
10/13/10 Rutherford County Sheriff's investigators want to know if a man who admitted to drinking at a party wrecked his own vehicle Sunday and then called authorities almost three hours later to report it stolen.
09/30/10 Rutherford County Commissioner Robert Peay Jr. testified Wednesday that he never received notice about plans for a mosque in the district he represents and that planners should have required a turn lane into the site.
09/29/10 Future Islamic Center of Murfreesboro traffic on Bradyville Pike concerns residents the most, and a turn lane should have been required, County Commissioner Robert Peay Jr. testified in court this morning.
09/28/10 Layla Hantouli was offended that an Islamic Center of Murfreesboro opponent summoned deputies to question her presence in Rutherford County Chancery Court Monday.
09/28/10 Plaintiffs suing to stop Rutherford County government from granting building permits to the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro focused much of Monday's court hearing on condemning Shariah law.
09/03/10 Hunkered down in the office avoiding phone calls isn't exactly what Bud Fultz would consider an ideal day at work.
08/30/10 One day after a piece of construction equipment was burned at the building site for the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro, the Rutherford County Sheriff's office investigated a report about shots fired at the site.
08/30/10 Lately, much has been made of the reported tensions and vitriol between those eager to develop Islamic cultural centers and mosques, and some who oppose said development. And while the majority of the nation's attention has focused on a proposed project in lower Manhattan (near Ground Zero), a proposed expansion of a Mosque in Murfreesboro, Tennessee has also generated some protest. This weekend ...
08/29/10 An apparent case of arson to a piece of construction equipment at the site of the proposed Islamic Center of Murfreesboro was being investigated Saturday by the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
08/29/10 An arson investigation is underway after someone set fire to construction equipment at the site of the new Islamic Center of Murfreesboro.
08/29/10 Students began returning to Middle Tennessee State University housing on Friday and are invited to a 2 p.m. convocation today in the Murphy Center.
08/28/10 Investigators are seeking the public's help in solving an overnight construction site fire at the future home of a Muslim Mosque. |