Gary Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "I'm only a second-generation American. My father's family came to this country from Denmark; my mother's people emigrated from Norway and Sweden. My father was a career military man who se...

It was a ricochet nearly 50 years in the making. At age 8, Terry Jackson gave up his prized .22-caliber Winchester short-barrel rifle to get his grandmother a washer. Recently, the 57-year-old got the gun back through a series of chance encounters...

It was a ricochet nearly 50 years in the making. At age 8, Terry Jackson gave up his prized .22-caliber Winchester short-barrel rifle to get his grandmother a washer. Recently, the 57-year-old got the gun back through a series of chance encounters...

A National Guardsman was charged with attempting to kill Rutherford County's sheriff after an off-duty state trooper spotted him walking with an assault rifle slung on his shoulder.Bruce Bailey, a former deputy who once worked under Sheriff Truman Jones, was arrested Monday night a short...

John Hays feels his right leg twitch and writhe at times, more than 15 years after losing it to a car crash and unsuccessful surgeries.This was different. His hands shook now because of the buck he saw emerge from the brush and pine trees of...