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Chaplain of The Covenant School Matthew Sullivan stands in the school's church sanctuary where he lead chapel service in the past, Friday, March 22, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. Facing the first anniversary of a tragic shooting which left six people dead, the school, which has been meeting in a temporary location, prepares to move back into the building where it happened. (AP Photo/John Amis)
A year after deadly Nashville shooting, Christian school relies on faith — and adopted dogs
Nearly a year after a shooting at a Christian elementary school in Nashville that left three adults and three children dead, students and their families have formed tight bonds out of their shared grief.
 
FILE - Investigators look over a small plane crash alongside eastbound Interstate 40 at mile marker 202 on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. On Thursday, Police have identified those killed in the fiery small plane crash next to Interstate 40 on Monday as a family of five from Canada. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Canadian town mourns ‘devastating loss’ of family killed in Nashville plane crash
Police in Tennessee have identified the victims of a small plane crash near downtown Nashville as a family of five from Canada. Metro Nashville Police say pilot Victor Dotsenko was with his wife Rimma and their three children, ages 12, 10 and 7.
 
Investigators look over a small plane crash alongside eastbound Interstate 40 at mile marker 202 on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Nashville cleared the runway for an emergency. Pilot said ‘I’m too far away’.
The pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed near downtown Nashville told air traffic controllers he could see the runway they were clearing for an emergency landing. But he said he couldn’t reach it.
 
FILE - Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe speaks during an interview, Sept. 22, 2009, in Warsaw, Poland. A federal judge in Nashville on Monday, March 4, 2024 dismissed a challenge to a Tennessee law aimed at making sure primary voters are “bona fide” members of the party they are voting for. Ashe sued state election officials in November, claiming the law is so vague that he could be prosecuted for voting in a Republican primary. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
Judge upholds Tennessee law to stop crossover voting in primaries. Critics say the law is too vague.
A federal judge in Nashville has upheld a Tennessee law aimed at making sure primary voters are “bona fide” members of the party they are voting for.
 
A crowd gathers to remember Tyre Nichols during a candlelight vigil on the anniversary of his death, Jan. 7, 2024, in Memphis, Tenn. The city of Memphis has released hours of more video in the case of five former police officers charged with the violent beating and death of Nichols. The recordings were released Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024 based on a judge’s order on the same day last November that former officer Desmond Mills Jr. pleaded guilty to federal charges. (AP Photo/Karen Pulfer Focht)
Hours of additional video show what officers did and said after fatal beating of Tyre Nichols
The city of Memphis Tennessee has released about 21 more hours of video and audio in the case of five former police officers charged with the violent beating and death of Tyre Nichols.
 
Members of the Bellows Falls, Vt., Fire Department practice cold water rescue training at Minard's Pond in Bellows Falls, Vt., on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. (Kristopher Radder/The Brattleboro Reformer via AP)
Much of US still gripped by arctic weather as Memphis deals with numerous broken water pipes
Subfreezing conditions and treacherous roadways have contributed to dozens of deaths this month across the U.S., where states as far south as Texas and Florida remain gripped by deadly arctic weather Sunday.
 
In this 1979 photograph, Jim Williams speaks during a protest against the damming of the Little Tennessee River, home or the Snail Darter, in Tenn. The fish was at the center of a battle between developers of the Tellico Dam and conservationists. (Courtesy of C. Kenneth Dodd Jr. via AP)
As the Endangered Species Act turns 50, those who first enforced it reflect on its mixed legacy
On Dec. 28, 1973, President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act. The powerful law charged the federal government with saving every endangered plant and animal in America.
 
FILE - Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, managed by CoreCivic, is seen May 24, 2016, in Hartsville, Tenn. Tennessee prisons are severely understaffed, leading to unsafe conditions for both inmates and guards, according to an audit of the prison system by the state comptroller’s office released Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
Audit finds Tennessee prisons severely understaffed, officers worried about safety
Tennessee prisons are severely understaffed, leading to unsafe conditions for both inmates and guards. That’s according to an audit of the prison system by the state comptroller’s office. It found one prison had a vacancy rate of 61%.
 
A Bible rests on the lawn of Community Baptist Church amongst storm debris Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. The church was destroyed when severe storms came through over the weekend. Members of the church were trapped and injured inside the building during the storm on Saturday. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Two Nashville churches, wrecked by tornadoes years apart, lean on each other in storms’ wake
In March 2020, a tornado destroyed the Rev. Jacques Boyd’s Nashville church. His friend the Rev. Vincent Johnson lent him worship space. Nearly four years later, Boyd has offered to return the favor.
 
FILE - An entrance to The Covenant School is seen, May 24, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Nashville Police have “exhausted all available investigative avenues” in the hunt for the person who leaked pages from a school shooter’s journals to a conservative commentator, the department announced in an email sent to media late on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)
Nashville Police investigation into leak of Covenant School shooter’s writings is inconclusive
Nashville Police say they have “exhausted all available investigative avenues” in the hunt for the person who leaked pages from a school shooter’s journals to a conservative commentator.
 
FILE - A police crime scene tape is seen at the entrance to Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn. Monday, March 27, 2023. The Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday, Nov. 30, that the parents, the Covenant School and Covenant Presbyterian Church, which shares a building with the school, all have a right to participate in a court case that will determine which police records can be released to the public. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)
Parents can fight release of Tennessee school shooter’s writings, court rules
Parents of school shooting victims in Tennessee can seek a court order to keep the writings of the shooter from ever being released to the public.
 
FILE - Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe reflects on his five years in Poland to the Associated Press, Sept. 22, 2009, in Warsaw, Poland. The former ambassador to Poland and longtime Tennessee Republican politician sued state election officials on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023, over a law he claims is so vague that he could be prosecuted for voting in a Republican primary. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
Former ambassador and Republican politician sues to block Tennessee voting law
Former Ambassador to Poland and longtime Republican politician Victor Ashe is suing Tennessee election officials over a state law he claims is so vague that he could be prosecuted for voting in a Republican primary.
 
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, left, attends a news conference with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, right, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Gov. Lee presented the Education Freedom Scholarship Act of 2024, his administration's legislative proposal to establish statewide universal school choice. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Tennessee governor unveils push for statewide school voucher expansion, no income limitations
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is backing a plan to expand beyond a three-county school voucher program for low-income children by offering public money for private schooling statewide, regardless of family income.
 
FILE - An entrance to The Covenant School is seen, May 24, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Four of seven Nashville Police officers who had been put on administrative assignment following the leak of pages from a school shooter's journals to a conservative commentator have returned to regular duty, according to a police statement on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)
Four of 7 officers returned to regular duty after leak of Nashville school shooting records
Nashville Police say four of seven officers have returned to regular duty after they were put on administrative assignment last week. That followed the leak of pages from a school shooter’s journals to a conservative commentator.
 
College student hit by stray bullet dies. Suspect was released earlier for intellectual disability
A Tennessee college student who was hit by a stray bullet while walking near campus has died. Metro Nashville Police said on social media Thursday morning that 18-year-old Jillian Ludwig died overnight.
 
FILE- In this June 24, 2015, file photo, Nashville district attorney Glenn Funk watches the proceedings during the Vanderbilt Rape Trial in Nashville, Tenn. The Nashville district attorney on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023 called for the Tennessee legislature to make it easier to commit someone to a mental institution after a man who was previously released for incompetence to stand trial was accused of shooting an 18-year-old college student in the head. (George Walker IV/The Tennessean via AP, File)
Nashville DA seeks change after suspect released from jail is accused of shooting college student
The Nashville district attorney is calling on the Tennessee legislature to make it easier to commit someone to a mental institution.
 
FILE - The screen at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans honors Tyre Nichols before an NBA basketball game between the New Orleans Pelicans and the Washington Wizards, Jan. 28, 2023. Desmond Mills Jr., a former Memphis police officer, is changing his plea from not guilty on federal charges that he violated Nichols' civil rights by fatally beating him after a traffic stop in January 2023. A change of plea hearing has been scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 2, for Mills Jr., according to court documents and his lawyer. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)
Former Memphis police officer pleads guilty to federal charges in Tyre Nichols’ death
A former Memphis police officer has pleaded guilty in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, becoming the first of five officers charged to reverse course.
 
FILE - Nashville police gather at the scene after a Metro Nashville police officer shot and killed Grammy-winning sound engineer Mark Capps while at his home to arrest him on warrants, Jan. 5, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Capps' wife filed a lawsuit against the city of Nashville and Police Officer Ashley Coon on Monday, Oct. 30, claiming that Coon used “excessive, unreasonable force by shooting and killing Capps when he was not posing an active threat of imminent harm.” It also claims the city is to blame for Capps' death because it allowed the Metro Nashville Police Department to operate with a “culture of fear, violence, and impunity.” (Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean via AP, File)
Wife of Grammy winner killed by Nashville police sues city over ‘excessive, unreasonable force’
The wife of a Grammy-winning sound engineer who was killed by police in January has filed a lawsuit against the city of Nashville and a police officer.
 
FILE - These images provided by the City of La Vergne shows La Vergne Police Officers Ashely Boleyjack and Gregory Kern. The estranged son of Nashville’s police chief, who was wanted in the shooting of two police officers outside a Dollar General store, has been found dead, authorities said. (City of La Vergne via AP)
Nashville police chief’s son, wanted in the shooting of 2 officers, found dead after car chase
Authorities say the estranged son of Nashville’s police chief, who was wanted in the shooting of two police officers, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after leading police on a chase in a stolen car.
 
FILE - Nashville Police Chief John Drake speaks, March 29, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. The Nashville police chief has spent much of his career trying to steer young people away from crime, but was unable to keep his own son out of trouble. John C. Drake Jr. stands accused of shooting two police officers outside of a Dollar General store in the nearby city of La Vergne, Tenn., Saturday afternoon, Oct. 21. He was still the subject of a manhunt on Monday, Oct. 23, and police said they consider him to be armed and dangerous. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)
Nashville police chief has spent a career mentoring youths but couldn’t keep his son from trouble
Nashville Police Chief John Drake has spent much of his career trying to steer young people away from crime. Inspired by mentors who helped him as a young man, Drake has tried to pay it forward.
 
FILE - Two women hug near a memorial at the entrance to The Covenant School, March 29, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. The Tennessee Court of Appeals heard arguments Monday, Oct. 16, on whether Tennessee law gives the parents of school shooting victims the right to have a say over which police records are released to the public. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)
Tennessee court to decide if school shooting families can keep police records from public release
Tennessee’s Court of Appeals is deciding whether the parents of school shooting victims can seek to veto the release of police records.
 
Carolyn Miller, center right, speaks at a news conference called by friends and family of Tennessee death row inmate Gary Sutton, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, outside the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville, Tenn. Sutton’s supporters want to publicize his effort to pursue a claim of innocence and have his public defender removed from his case. Miller was Sutton’s girlfriend in 1992 when Tommy Griffin and Griffin's s sister Connie Branam were murdered. Miller said in an interview that she knows Sutton is innocent in their deaths because he was with her the weekend that the siblings were killed. (AP Photo/Travis Loller)
Supporters of Tennessee death row inmate Gary Sutton hope to prove he is innocent
Friends and family of Tennessee death row inmate Gary Sutton say he is hoping to have his public defender removed from his case. They believe Susanne Bales has not done enough to pursue Sutton’s claims of innocence.
 
Alyssa Milligan participates in the Bike Ride Across Wilson County in conjunction with the Tennessee State Fair, Aug. 19, 2023, in Tenn. Milligan was struck and killed by a pickup truck in September while riding with a friend. Roadway deaths in the U.S. are mounting despite government test data showing vehicles have been getting safer. While the number of all car-related fatalities has trended upward over the last decade, pedestrians and cyclists have seen the sharpest rise, 64% between 2011 and 2022. (Ronald E. VanHoose via AP)
New cars are supposed to be getting safer. So why are fatalities on the rise?
Government test data shows new passenger vehicles in the U.S. are extremely safe, but roadway deaths are steadily rising. Some of the biggest increases are deaths of pedestrians and cyclists.
 
FILE - Nashville police gather at the scene after a Metro Nashville police officer shot and killed Grammy-winning sound engineer Mark Capps while at his home to arrest him on warrants, Jan. 5, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Newly released investigative files in the police shooting death of Capps reveal there was an armed Tennessee Bureau of Investigation officer in the home when Capps began threatening his family with guns on Jan. 5. (Andrew Nelles/The Tennessean via AP, File)
Investigation shows armed officer was hostage at home of Grammy winner who was killed by police
Newly released investigative files in the police shooting death of a Grammy-winning sound engineer revealed there was an armed Tennessee Bureau of Investigation officer in the home when Mark Capps began threatening his family with guns on Jan. 5.
 
Jefferson County Public School students stand beside their bus as they prepare to transfer buses on Friday, Aug. 18, 2023 in Louisville, Ky. . Jefferson County Schools, a public district with more than 90,000 students, drew up new bus routes and staggered school start times under a new plan that officials hoped would alleviate issues caused by driver shortages. (Michael Clevenger/Courier Journal via AP)
Snags persist, but overall improvement for Kentucky district restarting classes after busing fiasco
Kentucky’s largest school district restarted classes for some students Friday after a bus transportation debacle forced officials to cancel school last week. Elementary and middle school students started back Friday.
 
Michael Cummins arrives for his court hearing at the Sumner County Justice Center on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023, in Gallatin Tenn. Cummins who killed eight people in rural Westmoreland over several days in April 2019, has pleaded guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder in exchange for a sentence of life without parole. (Mark Zaleski/The Tennessean via AP, Pool)
Tennessee man who killed 8 gets life in prison in surprise plea deal after new evidence surfaces
A Tennessee man who killed eight people in rural Westmoreland over several days in April 2019, has pleaded guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder in exchange for a sentence of life without parole.
 
FILE - Jefferson County Public Schools buses packed with students make their way through the Detrick Bus Compound on the first day of school, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, in Louisville, Ky. AlphaRoute, the company behind a disastrous change to a Kentucky city's school bus routes that resulted in more than a week of canceled classes, had similar problems in two cities in neighboring Ohio last year. (Jeff Faughender/Courier Journal via AP, File)
Tech company behind Kentucky school bus problems had similar issues in Ohio last year
The company behind a disastrous change to a Kentucky city’s school bus routes that resulted in more than a week of canceled classes had similar problems in two cities in neighboring Ohio last year.
 
Jefferson County Public Schools school buses packed with students makes their way through the Detrick Bus Compound on the first day of school Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, in Louisville, Ky. Kentucky’s largest school system has cancelled the second and third day of school after a disastrous overhaul of the transportation system that left some children on buses until almost 10 p.m. on opening day. Jefferson County Public Schools Superintendent Marty Pollio calls it a “transportation disaster” in a video posted on social media. (Jeff Faughender/Courier Journal via AP)
Kentucky school district rushes to fix bus route snarl that canceled classes and outraged parents
Louisville school district officials say an overhaul of bus routes created too steep a learning curve for the system. The logistical meltdown forced classes to be canceled for two days this week as district officials tried to untangle the mess.
 
Former Tennessee police officer sues after department rescinds job offer because he has HIV
A former Memphis police officer of the year is suing the Nashville Police Department for rescinding a job offer after the department learned he has HIV. The suit was filed in federal court in Nashville on Friday.
 
FILE - Two women hug at a memorial at the entrance to The Covenant School on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023 unveiled a sweeping list of public safety issues he wants lawmakers to address during an upcoming special session prompted by a shocking Nashville school shooting earlier this year that resulted in the deaths of three children and three adults. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)
Nashville school shooter’s writings reignite debate over releasing material written by mass killers
In Tennessee, a request for police to release a school shooter’s private writings has morphed into a complex multiparty legal fight. With no national standard over how to treat such records, both sides claim their position is in the public interest.
 
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