www.newschannel9.com - LEBANON, Tenn. (AP) - A Middle Tennessee child who might have thought a loaded handgun was a video game controller has fatally shot herself. WTVF-TV in Nashville quoted Wilson County Sheriff Terry Ashe, who said the 3-year-old girl picked up her...... (Read More)

www.newschannel9.com - EASTMAN, Ga. (AP) - Authorities in central Georgia have arrested a couple they say traded sex with their 14-year-old daughter for payments on their minivan. Dodge County sheriff's Capt. Tony Winborn says the parents were arrested Monday and are in...... (Read More)

www.newschannel9.com - JELLICO, Tenn. (AP) - Two children and one of their mothers have been killed in separate weekend traffic crashes in East Tennessee. The Knoxville News Sentinel reported Tricia Reece of Bradford, Ohio, reached for a water bottle and lost control of...... (Read More)

www.newschannel9.com - MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A former Memphis police officer who coerced sex from prostitutes, including a 15-year-old, will serve six months in prison and six years of probation. Criminal Court Judge John Colton Jr. on Thursday denied James George's...... (Read More)

www.newschannel9.com - ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Hawkins County man charged with aggravated sexual battery told police a 12-year-old girl blackmailed him into having sex with her. Deputies arrested 41-year-old Jesse James Warwick, of Rogersville, on Tuesday. The...... (Read More)

www.newschannel9.com - NASHVILLE - Two Tennessee Army National Guard pilots were killed Sunday in a helicopter accident in Iraq, according to Major General Max Haston, Tennessee's Adjutant General.  Captain Marcus Ray Alford, of Knoxville, and Chief Warrant Officer Two...... (Read More)

www.newschannel9.com - WINCHESTER, Tenn. (AP) - Investigators seized an unloaded handgun in a Franklin County High School parking lot and detained two students after a weapon was shown during an argument. Sheriff's Department Sgt. Chris Guess said Friday that the detained.... (Read More)

www.newschannel9.com - ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A young man has been convicted in the laying of a teenager in a discount store parking lot in Rogersville. A Hawkins County jury deliberated about two hours Wednesday before returning the verdict against 21-year-old Ronald..... (Read More)

www.newschannel9.com - NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - An all-star roster of country music acts head the lineup for this summer's CMA Music Festival. Brad Paisley, Keith Urban, Reba McEntire and Rascal Flatts join rising stars Lady Antebellum and Jason Aldean among the first...... (Read More)

www.newschannel9.com - A circus zebra escaped and led police on a chase through downtown Atlanta Thursday before being captured along an interstate. Rush hour traffic came to a standstill as Atlanta police attempted to corral the animal, spotted by witnesses near the Sam..... (Read More)