Courtney Allen
Reporter
Courtney Allen is an Emmy-nominated reporter who joined the WSMV 4 team in October 2021. She is originally from Knoxville, TN where her family still lives. She loves reporting in her home state.
After graduating from Louisiana State University, Courtney began her career in Baton Rouge, LA as a breaking news reporter for a local morning show. The show was awarded Best Morning Show by the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters during her time there. She then went on to report in Greenville, N.C. and Albuquerque, N.M. before landing in Music City.
Outside of work, Courtney enjoys checking off her Nashville bucket list with friends and family. Feel free to send her an email with restaurants, shops and other places they have to try! She also loves spending time with her black lab, Dauphine, who she named after a street in New Orleans.
If signed, the new law would require the Tennessee Department of Health to report the number of gun deaths and injuries in our state to the governor each year.
Pink Energy never finished the work. Instead, they shut down and filed for bankruptcy. Yet, Guinn said he is still on the hook for more than $70,000 to the third-party financing company he used to make payments.
Photos included in incident reports showed people with bleeding legs and wounded arms.
Jordan Lomellin expects to have medical bills for thousands of dollars after being shot on Sunday.
We broke down which had the most incidents, and what you need to check for when picking where to store your stuff.
“The kind of person I am... I would never be involved in what I am charged with.”
One company is off probation while a second remains under investigation.
If Nashville got a late snow, WSMV 4 Investigates has uncovered that the city isn’t as prepared as it should be
Over 40 people have fallen victim to the contractor.
The latest bill increasing the penalty passed through committee meetings at the Capitol on Tuesday.
“You can’t say I broke the rules if you are breaking the rules yourself.”
WSMV4 Investigates has now uncovered that it’s not the only company that has been operating illegally in Nashville.
Data also shows that the area falls in the top three for the longest duration of outages.
Tonight at 6, we unveil what part of town has the most frequent and longest outages, and what NES is doing to fix it.
The system was introduced more than a year ago.
The Metro Transportation Licensing Commission found that Nashville Booting Company operated illegally from Dec. 1-12, 2023.
The BBB has given Nashville Booting an F rating and said the company has a pattern of similar complaints.
The mayor hopes his spending plan will help. It includes $10 million for sidewalks.
Moving forward, Mayor O’Connell said they’ll take a closer look at their fleet vendors.
A daycare owner received a bill of more than $800 for a building that was not in use.
“Even if you don’t get the money you are owed, you have to pursue justice."
Despite taking his concerns to the county multiple times: “No one has told me nothing,” Richardson said. “I can’t get help from nobody.”
According to local electric companies, they have received an overwhelming number of phone calls.
“The timing for this particular disaster is hard being three weeks before Christmas,” Cato said. “There was not a lot of attention.”
If your plans change, how easy is it to get your money back?
The store clerk applied pressure to the man’s leg wound until police arrived.
City and state crews are encouraging people to stay home.
Homeowners noticed gift cards, medicine were missing after the cleaning woman had visited their homes.
Anderson Dixon and a friend took cover in the bathroom and then heard the tornado hit his Madison recording studio.
So, which airline is the worst offender?
The good news for passengers is that turbulence rarely results in serious injuries according to FAA data.
He faces charges of aggravated kidnapping, robbery, vandalism and evidence tampering warrants.
Flipper Zeros recently got popular on TikTok for pranks like shutting off fast food displays.
While shoppers stay alert, police are upping their patrols at Nashville-area malls.
When asked about the likelihood of having more blackouts following the upgrade, a TVA maintenance manager said, “Low to none.”
Kenneth Beach was charged with attempted second-degree murder for allegedly trying to kill his girlfriend in 2004.
A recent video sent to WSMV 4 Investigates shows a car doing burnouts in the middle of the afternoon.
People should start seeing warning signs about two weeks before the switch.
“I would just get the impression that he had a short temper, bad attitude and maybe that he was misunderstood, but not that he functioned like a five-year-old,” the woman said.
The suspect was deemed incompetent in a recent aggravated assault case in May 2023, but not in two previous cases.
WMSV4 Investigates dug through his criminal background and found several charges over the years.
WSMV4 Investigates looked at data showing that most projects near schools took an average of eight months to complete.
“It is just pride and joy that people love our son,” Stephen said. “He is just a kid from Old Hickory.”
Video tracks Drake Jr. as he crashes stolen car, runs into shed in Edgehill community.
“These are a cost to the providers,” Borchers said. “They have to reimburse for those items or ship a second time, so it is raising the cost for all of us.”
