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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.

An 11-year-old denied making a threat and was allowed to return to school. Tennessee police arrested him anyway.

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Tennessee’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a series of increasingly punitive laws aimed not only at preventing future violence but dissuading kids from making threats that disrupt school and terrify other students.

In Rural Tennessee, Domestic Violence Victims Face Barriers to Getting Justice. One County Has Transformed Its Approach.

Despite being a rural area that’s steeped in gun culture, Scott County has emerged as a model for the state in trying to prevent domestic violence from escalating.

Resource guide: How domestic violence victims can navigate Tennessee’s justice system

After a year of investigating the holes in Tennessee’s system, WPLN News has compiled a guide on what options for protection are available under state law.

Tennessee politicians react to shooting at Trump rally. Some urge unity. Others push for a deeper divide.

A shooting at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania injured former President Donald Trump and killed one spectator as of the time of publication. Some Tennessee politicians say it’s an example of political divisiveness in the country, while others took the opportunity to criticize President Joe Biden.

‘Same book, but the next chapter’: A redesigned Covenant School reopens for the first time since the shooting

This redesign was the school’s way of trying to fill the space with hope and playfulness after a shooting in 2023.

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