Fire officials in Putnam County battled a fire at several buildings in downtown Baxter overnight. | | A dispatcher told News 2 that about 45-percent of the Broad Street strip caught on fire Friday morning. | | Baxter is west

Former Metro Police Lieutenant Calvin Hullett turned himself into federal investigators Thursday and pleaded not guilty to a variety of charges. | | The five count indictment unsealed Thursday accuses Hullett of bugging a youth camp run by the Fraternal

The mortgage crisis hit middle Tennesseeans hard. | | The economy isn't getting better, so now more and more people are giving up their cars, and repossessions are up. | | When a driver can't make the car payments, Lorenzo

A west Nashville neighborhood is battling crime. | | A single home in a west Nashville neighborhood has been visited by police more than a dozen times in the past year. | | Norma hand lives just around the corner

Community leaders are trying to figure out how to keep Nashville's children in school. | | According to Metro School officials, last school year, 25,000 students skipped school. In just February of this school year, nearly half that skipped. |

A Ft. Campbell soldier just back from Iraq is credited with saving the life of a 15-year-old boy hit by a car Tuesday morning. | | Joshua Castle was on his way to school when he was struck by the

A two-year-old boy is safe with relatives Thursday night after an all night search. | | Police issued an Endangered Child Alert for Nathanial Rodriquez Wednesday night. He was found early Thursday morning and is now safe in his father's

Police arrested a suspect in a Nashville area crime spree Wednesday afternoon at a home on Stevenson Street. | | Authorities found the suspect, whose name has not yet been released, hiding under a bed inside the home. | |

Another case of racist graffiti has been found in a Williamson County school. | | This time, racial slurs were found written on the wall of a girls' bathroom at Freedom Middle School, off Highway 96 in Franklin. | |

An 11-year-old boy was taken to Vanderbilt Medical Center after being bitten by the family dog Wednesday morning. | | The boy's father said the family's German shepherd bit his son on the back while he was trying to put

According to a new federal study, one in four teenage girls has an STD. | | The overall STD rate among the 838 girls in the study was 26%. That translates into more than three million nationwide. | | Disease

Police and members of the Nashville community are speaking out against a bill that would allow permitted gun carriers to take their guns into places that serve alcohol. Metro Police Chief Ronal Serpas said House bill 410, which would allow

East Nashville police are calling one neighborhood an open-air drug market and crack cocaine carnival. | | Now, nearly 20 crack cocaine dealers are off the streets. | | There is drug sale after drug sale on North Second Street,

The storm water division of Metro Water Services has run out of funds for past, present and future projects and might soon turn to every Davidson County property owner to make up the difference. | | When it rains in

A member of the Ashland Police Department since 1999, Detective Scott Addock was promoted to detective two years ago. Last Thursday, he was diagnosed with strep throat, a rather common illness. "About a week and a half ago he went

40 Maplewood High School students spent the day Wednesday at Lipscomb University. Officials hope the field trip brings positive changes to their school. Dr Larry Bridgesmith, Lipscomb University, said, "The public school system can be a safer place, less violence

High gas prices are impacting more than just drivers. In an indirect way, the Nashville Rescue Mission said they are starting to feel the impact. They said donations are down, and it could start costing more to provide meals. Cliff

An investigation into a shooting Wednesday night near Murfreesboro Road has now turned into a homicide. | | Police say the victim in that shooting died at Vanderbilt Medical Center. | | They say the shooting happened around 6:45 p.m.

A Middle Tennessee neighborhood terrorized by what police say is a one-man crime spree can sleep easier Wednesday night. | | Police caught their suspect ,James Ross, at a house on Stevenson Street Wednesday afternoon. | | Authorities said it

The man who claimed that a police officer planted drugs on him is now being sued by the city of Cookeville. | | That's according to the Herald Citizen newspaper. | | Police cruiser dash cam video caught the incident