Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of education and human development jumps to third in U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of top graduate and professional schools — Vanderbilt’s Owen school, and law school also improved their positions on their respective lists

Direct General buyout closes as Calera Capital and Texas Pacific Group announce the completion of their acquisition of the Nashville insurer

Gaylord tweaks its Bank of America credit facility, upping it to $1 billion from $600 million

After filing fourth quarter and year-end results yesterday, BioMimetic releases its annual report

Dollar General also files a 10-K

Raleigh News-Observer takes a look at future options for fast-growing former Music City company Motricity [added 2:01 p.m.] [full disclosure: Solidus Co., majority owner of NashvillePost.com, has a piece of Motricity]

And finally, though there's no story to link to in this case, we're happy to report that Nicholas Francis Garrigan entered this world on Wednesday, weighing 8 pounds, 5 ounces, and that Nicholas as well as Ma and Pa — otherwise known as our esteemed colleague Liz Garrigan of the Nashville Scene and Deputy Mayor Curt Garrigan — are doing well