JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, has been named vice chairman of a congressional task force looking at ways to reduce and prevent gun violence.

Thompson says while the country cannot sit by while deaths continue to mount, he hopes the task force's work can produce a comprehensive approach to addressing

CALHOUN CITY, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi sheriff plans to question this week 1 of the ex-prisoners who received a pardon last year from the state's then-governor and who was involved in exchange of gunfire that killed another man.

Sheriff Calhoun County Sheriff Greg Pollan says Wayne Thurman Harris of Slate Springs and Chris McGonagill of Calhoun

ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. (AP) - A sheriff's deputy has fatally shot a man while investigating an auto body shop burglary.

The Tennessean (http://tnne.ws/SDyCaI ) reported Ashland City Police Chief Mark Coulon said 1 of his officers and a Cheatham County Sheriff's deputy responded to the burglary Monday night. Coulon (KOO'-lahn) said the deputy was

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - More than three dozen students have spent the night in a hospital after carbon monoxide leaked at their Nashville private school.

Drexel Preparatory Academy principal Cheryl Bowman told WTVF-TV (http://bit.ly/ULQFal ) students began coming to the office Monday morning complaining of flu-like symptoms. Officials decided to