Tennessee’s Republican-dominated legislature will return to the state Capitol on Monday, months after a tragic school shooting, with a long list of ideas addressing mental health, school resources, more substantial sentences for violent felons, and other issues. Any honest consideration of improving Tennessee’s permissive gun regulations will probably be absent from the special legislative session. … Read more

The guy suspected of firing rounds outside a Jewish school in Memphis has been booked into the Shelby County jail several weeks after the shooting. Joel Bowman’s mugshot was posted online on the Shelby County inmate database Friday evening. Bowman was charged with attempted second-degree murder after allegedly shooting outside the Margolin Hebrew Academy on … Read more

It’s the first day of the new school year at Highland Park High School, where students arrived to campus Wednesday morning to find a new weapons detection system. The district approved the changes last week, but the start date was moved up because a student was shot and killed over the weekend. Wednesday morning, there … Read more

A judge will hear testimony on the fourth and last day of the trial on Friday to determine whether a teenager will be sentenced to life in prison for the deadly shooting of four students at a Michigan high school in 2021. It is not expected that a decision will be made right away. Prosecutors … Read more

Rylee J. Hatlen, 19, was named Thursday as the victim of a fatal shooting in Portland’s Pearl District. Officers from the Central Precinct discovered Hatlen with a gunshot wound near Northwest Couch Street and Broadway at 2 a.m. Sunday. She was still breathing when police and fire crews arrived, but she d!ed at the scene … Read more

A multiple-vehicle incident on Highway 26 resulted in two deaths and two significant injuries. On Tuesday, just after 12:30 p.m., OSP responded to the crash near Milepost 52. According to police, Frederick Kortlever, 90, was driving east in a white Ford F-250 when it swerved from the lane and collided head-on with Erez Mayer, 50, … Read more

According to Terrell police, a family conflict led to the shooting death of a high school junior. A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murd*ring his 17-year-old relative. According to Terrell police, their families have been feuding for some time. Terrell police were called around 8:15 a.m. Wednesday to report a non-responsive youngster in a … Read more

Officials say it is now open three months after a Portland street was closed due to a massive sinkhole. The Portland Bureau of Environmental Services reported Wednesday that Southeast Yamhill Street between SE 74th and 76th Avenues reopened following emergency repairs to a 1914-era sewer pipe and accompanying infrastructure. The two-block stretch has been closed … Read more

Temperatures in the triple digits are forecast on Tuesday, and Portland Public Schools is adjusting athletic team practice times. Adjusting practice times is one of the most significant changes at Ida B. Wells High School. To avoid high temperatures and for the safety of the children, the cross-country team rehearsed in the morning rather than … Read more

A judge ordered Monday that a teenager who opened fire at a central Indiana middle school in 2018, injuring another student and a teacher, be admitted to a residential treatment program. Hamilton Superior Court Judge Michael A. Casati ordered that the now-18-year-old be placed at the Hamilton County Juvenile Service Center for 120 days while … Read more