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Paige Pfleger

Paige Pfleger covers criminal justice for WPLN News. She has investigated guns and juvenile justice as a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, and her investigation into domestic violence and firearms dispossession won a regional Edward R. Murrow award and was a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Livingston Award. She previously covered criminal justice and addiction in Ohio and was named the state's reporter of the year by the Associated Press. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI's The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY, Vox and NPR headquarters in DC.

Nashville gospel singer Shonka Dukureh dies at 44, just one month after her movie debut in ‘Elvis’

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Nashville singer and actor Shonka Dukureh has died unexpectedly. She’s survived by her two young children.

Nashville Police gave the community oversight board edited body camera footage. That’s raising questions about transparency.

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A Metro Nashville Police Department employee tampered with body camera footage before passing it on to the Community Oversight Board. It’s the latest tension in the relationship between the police department and the board tasked with overseeing them.

A Rutherford County juvenile judge illegally arrested and jailed children. Now two candidates for her seat have to rebuild trust.

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A judge’s retirement has voters asking: Will her replacement bring change to a dysfunctional system?

Shots for tots: Here’s how parents in Nashville can get their kids the COVID vaccine

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Parents have long been waiting for the CDC to recommend the COVID vaccine for infants and toddlers. Now that they have, here’s how families in Nashville can get their tots the shot.

Two sisters got pregnant young. The choices they made — and the secrets they kept — shaped their lives.

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Fanny and Marianne Sung may have reached very different decisions about their pregnancies, but they both remember how daunting it was to hold that positive test and be faced with a choice that would change their lives.

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