Anna's News

MOTHER CHARGED AFTER 2 KIDS FOUND DEAD IN HEAT
The mother of two children found dead from heat-related symptoms yesterday in Smyrna has been charged with especially aggravated child abuse. 25 year-old Samantha Harper's two children, a boy and girl, 2 and 3 years old, were found just before 4 yesterday afternoon, near the car in a driveway on Old Nashville Highway.

STORMS MOVE THROUGH, LEAVING DEBRIS
Be careful on your ride in today. Not only will you have school zones to think about... you may find debris on the road after the strong storms that moved through last night.

PRIMARY ELECTIONS
Voters go to the polls today for state primary elections and some local races. There are new identification requirements and some voting districts are changing... so there's potential for confusion. The election commission has set up a hotline to deal with questions.

ROBIN ROBERTS LEAVES GMA DURING SHOW
Robin Roberts has taken time off from "Good Morning America" earlier than she'd planned. She's undergoing treatment for an illness, and left in the middle of yesterday's broadcast, saying, "Well, a full disclosure here, I'm not feeling too well." She's getting ready for a bone marrow transplant to treat myelo-dysplastic syndrome (MDS), which was a complication from her treatment for breast cancer.

MICHAEL PHELPS ALL TIME MEDAL LEADER
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METRO SCHOOL STARTS TOMORROW
www.mnps.org
Metro Schools start back tomorrow (Wed, August 1st). You can see the official Metro Back-to-school guide online to make sure you've done all you need to do. That includes a new round of vaccinations for kids going into 7th grade.

NASHVILLE YOUNG TRAFFIC DEATHS 3RD HIGHEST IN U.S.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the greater Nashville area, including Franklin and Murfreesboro, has the nation’s third-highest death rate for motor vehicle accidents among young people.

There are a lot of choices for family fun this weekend! Here are a few.
FRANKLIN WATERMELON FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND
The Franklin Watermelon Festival is this Saturday, 8 to 1, and includes games, seed spitting and watermelon eating contests, as well as plenty of ice cold watermelon.

HAVE A BLIZZARD, HELP A SICK CHILD TODAY
Dairy Queen restaurants are hoping you'll stop by for a Blizzard today. A dollar or more from each of the sweet treats goes to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals across the country: our local CMN hospital is the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt. (Last year, more than five-million dollars was raised from DQ restaurants in the U.S. and Canada.

STUFF THE BUS

With school less than a week away here in Metro, a lot of students can't afford the paper, pens, and backpacks they need to get started. To help, the United Way has geared up its "Stuff the Bus Campaign" to help these students, boxing up supplies and shipping them to community resource centers for delivery.

BATMAN SUSPECT IN COURT

The man accused of committing the massacare inside the Aurora, Colorado movie theatre made his first court appearance yesterday.  James Holmes behaved oddly, at times seeming to almost to doze off, then bugging out his eyes, reacting to nothing in particular.  One jailhouse employee told a newspaper, "He thinks he's acting in a movie."

AMERICAN IDOL

Attention Nashville singers--which is about ever

PENN STATE PENALTIES

The NCAA came down hard this morning on Penn State in response to the schools sex scandal involving assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, convicted of 45 counts of sexual abuse of 10 boys last month. That all happened during Joe Paterno's tenure as coach.