Rebecca Cardenas
Reporter
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Rebecca Cardenas is a Murrow-award winning journalist, happily joining the WSMV4 team in September 2017 after two years reporting for WSAW-TV in Wausau, WI.
Rebecca is thrilled to make her way back south - she grew up in Tampa, FL, earning degrees in communications and French at Florida State University. While in school, she spent a summer abroad at the Catholic University of Paris, adding a third language to her belt - she is fluent in Portuguese as well.
WSAW was her first job out of school, where her coverage ranged from snowstorms, to city government, to a nationally-reported high school prom shooting.
Her examination into the state of homelessness in north central Wisconsin schools was awarded a regional Edward R. Murrow, and she was a finalist in the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association’s ‘Best Live On-Scene Reporting’ category.
Outside of the newsroom, Rebecca likes to run, read and explore Nashville.
If you have any story tips, restaurant recommendations, or just want to say hello, shoot her an email!
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NDOT officials said they plan to focus specifically on how the transportation section of the project will benefit all Nashville neighborhoods.
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The video shows Uk Thang open fire inside the store, moving swiftly through the grocery store as customers scramble for the exits.
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The Love's Travel Center in Christiana is closed after a car crashed into the front of the store.
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The 988 operator said she found a purpose after experiencing her own crisis.
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The MFRD engineer said that the late detective saved his life on two occasions.
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The suspect is accused of breaking into the woman's home and brutally raping her.
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Nashville Fire Station 9 responded to 35,958 calls in 2021, more than 7,000 more than the runner up.
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After outrage from parents across the country who lost children to overdoses on drugs purchased on Snapchat, the company launched a transparency feature.
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The driver was not injured and the residents were not home.
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The 7-month-old twins were swept from Matthew Rigney's arms during the flood last year in Waverly.
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Parents in Lebanon are forced to find alternate routes to school because of bus shortages.
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Staffing shortages and malfunctioning septic tank led to DHS to close a daycare facility.
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UPS drivers have been turning up the heat on heat safety demands.
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The suspension applies to all food and food ingredients, and only excludes alcohol, tobacco, candy, dietary supplements and prepared food.
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After years of battling vaping in schools, Wilson County has been taking a new approach to help teens kick the habit.
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She said she bought tickets for the event and then suspected it was fake after it was allegedly rescheduled.
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Biden said just because SCOTUS can't protect abortion rights does not mean he can't.
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One woman told us she is having concerns about her lease ending too early.
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Metro Nashville Public School’s end-of-year test scores came in, and Nashville students outperformed improvement levels statewide. However, students have fallen behind in many pre-2020 achievement levels, even two years after the start of the pandemic.
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Michael Mosley was found guilty of murdering two men in Midtown in 2019.
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These new Tennessee education laws range from making it easier to hire teachers to addressing human trafficking.
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New regulations about things such as alcohol and hours of operation may significantly hurt the party bus industry.
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A law that has been on the books since 1973 has been overturned. Many Tennesseans are now celebrating this decision.
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The first major Supreme Court decision on the Second Amendment in more than a decade was released on Thursday.
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The event is designed to bolster conservative support and encourage Republican voter turnout in upcoming elections.
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Officials said roughly 36,000 people are behind in paying their bills.
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After a pandemic and historic flooding canceled two consecutive festivals, Bonnaroo is back and met with record-breaking heat.
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The event’s organizers are prepared for hundreds of thousands of fans this year.
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The Council listened to story after story of Metro employees struggling to make ends meet in an increasingly expensive city.
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His friend got the call from the liquor store manager that he had been shot.
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This survivor said he felt like he was reliving the 2018 tragedy.
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Many families say they have chosen to fly due to the rise in gas prices.
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This is now considered one of the deadliest shootings at a U.S. grade school since Sandy Hook.
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The wait is a good example of what is happening all over the country regarding childcare.
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Safety was the focus as another Rutherford County high school prepared to hold its graduation ceremonies at MTSU’s Murphy Center on Thursday night.
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A student is facing charges after allegedly threatening a Clarksville school on Tuesday.
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This came after the developer became interested in some farm land in the area.
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If Roe v. Wade is overturned, this pill would then be illegal in Tennessee.
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The bombshell leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion put the abortion debate in the national spotlight.
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More than 40 people stepped forward for public comment at Thursday’s Metro Transportation and Licensing Commission meeting, in which they discussed entertainment vehicle regulations.
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Metro Police said the driver who hit Lynn was high on narcotics at the time of the crash.
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Voces De Nashville works to support all members of the Latine community in Davidson Co.
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A Nashville broker caught a rent fraud scam in the nick of time.
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Nashville churchgoers celebrated Holy Weekend free of COVID restrictions for the first time in two years.
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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed Noah’s Law into place Wednesday afternoon. Noah’s family was there for the bill’s signing.
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The Wilson County School Board voted to keep two books inside high school libraries available Monday night.
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Two young women filed a police report after a man attacked them because their dog got too close to him on a popular West Nashville Greenway.
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Health and beauty posts on social media sites like Tik Tok and Instagram boast about the latest and most outstanding products. But that doesn’t mean they’re safe or that you should try them.
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A jury found former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught guilty of the lesser charge, criminally negligent homicide; however, she was not found guilty of reckless homicide.
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