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Gov. Bill Haslam has signed a law that will make it easier for people convicted of mostly low-level offenses to get their criminal records wiped clean.
The law reduces the costs of expunging criminal record convictions from $450 to $270, making it more affordable.
The bipartisan measure was championed by two Shelby County lawmakers in an effort to help non-violent offenders who have turned their lives around. The new law takes effect immediately.

Rescue personnel recovered the body of an apparent drowning victim from Rock Island State Park Saturday. Warren County Sheriff Jackie Matheny said the victim was a 26 year old man from Nashville.
Reports indicate the victim had been swimming with friends at the sand bar area of the park when he went under and did not surface.
Personnel from the Warren County Rescue Squad and the Warren County Sheriff’s Department were called to the scene. The body was recovered Saturday afternoon.

A poll by Vanderbilt University says about two of three registered voters in the state think Tennessee students whose parents brought or kept them in the country illegally should be eligible for an in-state tuition rate at public colleges and universities.
The poll released Tuesday says 55 percent of Republicans think those students should qualify for in-state tuition. A bill that would’ve made the change died in the Republican-led legislature this year.
The poll also says one in three respondents support fixing the Affordable Care Act versus repealing it, or repealing and replacing it. That’s a 5-percentage point increase since November.
The poll used a sample of 1,004 Tennessee registered voters reached by phone from May 4 through 15. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.3 percent.