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Late on the night of May 3, near the intersection of Edmondson and Nolensville pikes, a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper pulled over a Chevrolet HHR with a light out. 

The trooper approached the vehicle and, in an upbeat tone, asked, “Hey, how are you?”

“I’m fine, man,” said Eduardo, a chatty man in a red USA sweatshirt.

Then, as seen in a 31-minute body camera video, Eduardo offered that he was going home and knew he had a broken light. After being asked, he o...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — So far this year, there have been nine officer-involved shootings in Tennessee. Two of them took place right here in Nashville. The first one happened on Jan. 5, 2023, when Nashville SWAT officer, Ashley Kendall Coon, shot and killed Grammy award-winning engineer Mark Capps. The aftermath of that interaction left Capp's longtime friends and family members wondering if things would have been different if de-escalation tactics were used.Capp's death is still under investiga...

Quotes in this article have been translated from Spanish.Learning her son was found dead inside the trunk of his car is a pain Maria Isabel Nuñez Castillo said only she knows."They don't know the great damage that they have because to me as a mother, because as a mother no one wants to go through this," she said. On May 19, Nuñez Castillo said Metro Police called her in to identify her son, 18-year-old, Haron Francisco Martínez Nuñez."I feel like I'm not here, like this isn't true," she said.The...

Lansing, Mich. (WLNS) — After being locked up for 1,700 days, nearly 5 years, for a crime he did not commit Herbert Alford, 47, was exonerated in 2020. This after being falsely convicted of Michael Adams’ murder in 2016 and receiving a 30 to 60 year sentence.


Now he’s suing Hertz Corporation because they refused to turn over a receipt that corroborated his alibi.


A difficult path to freedom, because it took several years, multiple court orders and subpoenas for Hertz to turn over this re...