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In this photo made from surveillance video and released by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Adam Mayes, 35, stands in front of the counter at a convenience store on April 30, 2012 in Union County, Miss., about three days after Jo Ann Bain and her daughters disappeared. Authorities say Mayes abducted Bain and her three daughters. Bain and her oldest daughter were found dead. The two younger girls are still missing. (AP Photo/Tennessee Bureau of Investigation)

Suspect in double-murder may think kidnapped girls are his

Adrian Sainz, Sheila Burke The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 10:43am

GUNTOWN, Miss. -- The Mississippi man on the run from a double-slaying thought he might be the father of the two girls he's now accused of kidnapping, his mother-in-law said.

Authorities said they think the missing girls, Alexandria, 12, and Kyliyah, 8, are still with Adam Mayes, nearly two weeks after he fled with them.

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FILE - In a Friday, Dec. 14, 2007 file photo, criminal court Judge Richard Baumgartner, is shown in his courtroom in Knoxville, Tenn. A finding that Baumgartner was high on prescription pills during the last two years of his career is calling into question convictions in many of the criminal cases he handled. The outcome could overwhelm the court system in Knox County, Tennessee's third-largest county, with cases that must be retried because the judge was high. An investigative file on former Knox County Judge Baumgartner says he bought pills during courtroom breaks and traded pills for sex in his chambers. Baumgartner stepped down from the bench and pleaded guilty in March 2011 to a single count of official misconduct.(AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)

Drug Addicted judge had sex during court breaks

Sheila Burke The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 5:14pm

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A Tennessee judge was so addicted to prescription drugs during his final two years on the bench, he was having sex and buying pills during courtroom breaks, at times purchasing from convicts he had previously sentenced, an investigation found. His behavior has called into question many of the cases he presided over, including one of Knoxville's most notorious murders.

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Flood recovery worries poorer victims in Nashville

Sheila Burke, Travis Loller The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 5, 2010 - 6:04pm

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Raging torrents had shot furniture through walls and pushed houses into the street near Nashville's historically black Fisk and Tennessee State universities. Only a few tents tops poked above the floodwaters on Wednesday where dozens of homeless once lived along the still-swollen banks of the Cumberland River.

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(The Associated Press) Pedestrians survey flooded streets as the waters of the Cumberland River slowly started to ebb , Tuesday, in Nashville, Tenn. The river and its tributaries had flooded parts of middle Tennessee after a record-breaking weekend storm dumped more than a foot of rain in two days, rapidly spilling water into homes, roads and some of Music City's best-known attractions.

Nashville waters receding; crews search for bodies

Kristin M. Hall, Sheila Burke The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 10:22pm

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Cumberland River finally began receding Tuesday, exposing mud-caked homes and submerged cars as officials searched door to door for more victims of a record-busting flash flood and weekend storm already blamed for nearly 30 deaths.

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(MARK HUMPHREY/The Associated Press) A submerged car sits in flood waters on Sunday in Nashville, Tenn. Severe storms dumped heavy rain on Tennessee for the second straight day.

Tenn. officials brace for more flooding, deaths

Chris Talbott, Sheila Burke The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 3, 2010 - 1:35pm

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Officials in Nashville braced for more deaths Monday as the flooded Cumberland River continued to swell, sending muddy water rushing through neighborhoods and threatening the historic heart of Music City after a destructive line of weekend storms killed 21 people in Tennessee, Mississippi and Kentucky.

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