Morning links: 18 July 2006

[UPDATED 10:35 with four more items]... Sedley Alley case causes a stir in the blogosphere, Healthways cleared to acquire LifeMasters, Genetics testing company ramping up Nashville facility, and more...

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One widely read blogger's take on the complex legal wrangling of the Sedley Alley capital case attracts scores of comments from Nashville and beyond

Healthways receives anti-trust clearance to move forward with LifeMasters acquisition

Ingram Industries acquires Vital Source Technologies, a North Carolina digital delivery solutions firm.

NeoGenomics, a previously linked-to south Florida-based genetics testing company, rapidly expanding its Nashville facilities

In the wake of a workplace shooting in Va. that left two dead, American HomePatient faces lawsuit from victims' families [added 10:35 a.m.]

Momentum investor sizes up current prospects for Advocat stock [added 10:35 a.m.]

U.K.-based Blavod, with U.S. base in Franklin, discusses fiscal year's results at annual meeting [added 10:24 a.m.]

Brentwood construction firm Bell & Associates faces home-cookin' in East Tenn., where county leaders want to award a contract locally even though Bell was the low bidder [added 10:31 a.m.]

You have to love Tennessee politics: Man in a chicken suit in an altercation with a Bob Corker partisan