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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – At least four people are dead, including the shooter, following an “active shooter” situation at a school in Green Hills. The Nashville Fire Department said the incident happened at Covenant School located at 33 Burton Hills Boulevard. Metro police reported that officers engaged the shooter, who is dead. A spokesperson with Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt confirmed to News 2’s Kendall Ashman that three children were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, but have died from their injuries. Hospital officials also said two adults were transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and have...

A TEENAGER who attacked a TV star in the street then went on to murder a man will spend more than 12 years in jail. Now aged 18, he claims he remembers little or nothing of the Sydney attacks because he was high on drugs and alcohol. He cannot be named because he was a juvenile at the time of the offences. The teen was involved in three bashings on June 13 and 14, 2008, including the violent robbery of actress Virginia Gay. Best known for her role in television drama All Saints, Gay suffered head injuries after being attacked...

Judge: Harris knew 'exactly what he was doing' when he struck fatal blows LANCASTER - In a packed but eerily quiet courtroom, Lancaster juvenile court judge Richard E. Naranjo sentenced 13-year-old Greg Harris to a possible maximum 12-year term Thursday for the second-degree murder of 15-year-old Jeremy Rourke. The judge looked directly at the defendant, who appeared small in the courtroom chair, with chains around his ankles. The judge, his voice at times cracking with emotion, referred to the swing with an aluminum bat that Harris landed on Rourke's skull following what prosecutors referred to as innocent ribbing. "I still...

Isidro S. Dominguez, 20, St. Paul, died Monday after drinking a bottle of tequila at a home party on the city's east side. Dominguez told friends that he was man enough to drink the entire bottle, and he did. He collapsed, began vominting and passed out. He was carried to a porch and later carried inside the home. At 3 p.m. Monday Sosimo Ortez-Cortez, also 20, discovered that Dominguez was not breathing. He summoned help but it was too late. The medical examiner said that Dominguez's blood alcohol content was .55. Ortez-Cortez was charged with a felony for supplying the...