NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A 2-year-old missing from Middle Tennessee has been found safe after the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued an Amber Alert for him.

Cael Whitehead was recovered safely Wednesday afternoon, more than 150 miles from his home in Houston County northwest of Nashville.

Authorities told WSMV-TV (http://bit.ly/U4VJYL ) that

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) - Fort Smith city directors are considering an archery deer hunt in parts of the city to reduce the herd.

Fort Smith police said in a news release Wednesday that limited hunts are "practical and economical."

The Times Record reports that Arkansas Game & Fish Commission deer program coordinator Ralph Meeker told directors

MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) - McComb schools superintendent Therese Palmertree has announced she will retire July 1.

The school board named Palmertree interim superintendent in 2007 and she moved into the job full-time in early 2008.

Palmertree succeeded Pat Cooper, who had been superintendent of the McComb School District for 10 years and who resigned to go

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A former Alcoa High School softball coach has headed off his sexual offenses trial by changing his pleas.

The Daily Times (http://bit.ly/XjQBAO ) reported 41-year-old Robert Paul Talley of Knoxville will serve four months in jail on his plea that involves sex crimes against female former students who were 13-17 years old.

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