The Latest Breaking News from Tennessee

On the same day that six people were killed at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, a judge lowered the minimum age to carry handguns without a permit from 21 to 18

The Republican governor has loosened gun laws in the state since taking office

A Republican congressman has shocked with his view of gun reform, a day after three children and three adults died at a school in his state.

New details have emerged from Monday’s shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, that left three children and three adults dead when an assailant targeted a Christian school, making it the latest American community to be rocked by the despair and trauma of gun violence, as police search for a motive.

A federal judge quietly cleared the way to drop the minimum age to 18 for Tennesseans to carry handguns in public without a permit the same day Nashville residents were reeling from a fatal grade school shooting that left six dead, including three children

Haliey Wells, 17, from Smithville, Tennessee, US, was reported missing on March 15 and has not been in contact with her family for two weeks - her worried mum Angela Sanders has pleaded for her return

Christian singer Lauren Daigle postponed an album preview concert she had set in Nashville, Tennessee, for Monday to instead host a communitywide prayer vigil hours after a private elementary school in the city became the latest site of a fatal mass shooting.

Andy Ogles represents Tenessee’s 5th congressional district, where the shooting took place

Police say the driver of a tractor-trailer that hit a van alongside an interstate in east Tennessee — killing four people who were changing a tire and critically injuring another — was impaired