Sheila Burke, The Associated Press

Sheila Burke

The Associated Press

Nashville, TN, United States

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Past articles by Sheila:

Tennessee zipper company in crosshairs of buy-American laws

Dunlap Industries is a small manufacturing company in Sequatchie County that made zippers for military uniforms — until a Japanese competitor complained. → Read More

Police: 1 man kills another, surrenders at Nashville mall

The shooting couldn't be heard over the battle scenes in a showing of "Avengers: Infinity War," which was disrupted when officers in riot gear came into the theater and told everyone to leave. "I'm just thinking Aurora, Colorado," said Dave O'Brien, a crime and breaking news reporter for the Record-Courier in Kent, Ohio, who was visiting Nashville with his girlfriend to check out CrimeCon, a… → Read More

The Latest: Police: Nashville mall shooting victim, 22, dies

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at a Nashville mall (all times local): → Read More

Police: 1 man kills another, surrenders at Nashville mall

A gunman killed another man inside Nashville's Opry Mills Mall on Thursday and then immediately surrendered, police said. → Read More

Police: 1 man kills another, surrenders at Nashville mall

One 22-year-old man ended a fight with another by fatally shooting him inside a Tennessee mall on Thursday, and then gave up his weapon and surrendered, saying he didn't want any more... → Read More

Hundreds pay respects for woman slain in Waffle House attack

Hundreds of people thronged a Tennessee church on Friday, some hugging and crying, as they paid their respects for a college student killed in the weekend shooting rampage at a Waffle House. → Read More

Hundreds pay respects for woman slain in Waffle House attack

Hundreds of people thronged a Tennessee church on Friday, some hugging and crying, as they paid their respects for a college student killed in the weekend shooting rampage at a Waffle House. → Read More

Hundreds pay respects for woman slain in Waffle House attack

Hundreds of people thronged a Tennessee church on Friday, some hugging and crying, as they paid their respects for a college student killed in the weekend shooting rampage at a Waffle House. → Read More

Funerals set for 2 of 4 slain in the Waffle House shooting

Funeral arrangements have been set for two of the four people killed in the Waffle House shooting rampage, their deaths mourned as donations poured in Thursday for victims of last... → Read More

Patrons visit Waffle House to support shooting survivors

Tennessee residents living near a Waffle House where a gunman fatally shot four people have been filing into the restaurant to grab a meal and show their support for employees determined to... → Read More

Waffle House gunman's troubles began years before attack

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Travis Reinking's erratic behavior began years before police say he showed up without pants at a Waffle House restaurant and killed four people with an assault-style rifle. The onetime construction crane operator bounced between states and suffered from delusions, sometimes talking about plans to marry singer Taylor Swift, friends and relatives told police. He was arrested… → Read More

Waffle House gunman's troubles began years before attack

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Travis Reinking's erratic behavior began years before police say he showed up without pants at a Waffle House restaurant and killed four people with an assault-style rifle. The onetime construction crane operator bounced between states and suffered from delusions, sometimes talking about plans to marry singer Taylor Swift, friends and relatives told police. He was arrested… → Read More

Waffle House suspect: Erratic behavior years before shooting

Travis Reinking's erratic behavior began years before police say he showed up without pants at a Waffle House restaurant and killed four people with an assault-style rifle. → Read More

3 days after fatal shootings, Tennessee Waffle House reopens

The Tennessee Waffle House where four people were fatally shot reopened Wednesday amid tears and solemn remembrance of the dead, as the company said it will donate a month of the... → Read More

3 days after fatal shootings, Tennessee Waffle House reopens

The Tennessee Waffle House where four people were fatally shot reopened Wednesday amid tears and solemn remembrance of the dead, as the company said it will donate a month of the... → Read More

Waffle House slaying suspect arrested after massive manhunt

NASHVILLE - The mentally unstable gunman suspected of killing four people in a late-night shooting a... - World - Winnipeg Free Press. → Read More

Police: Waffle House suspect arrested

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The suspect in a quadruple homicide at a Nashville Waffle House was taken into custody Monday, police said. → Read More

Police: Waffle House suspect arrested

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The suspect in a quadruple homicide at a Nashville Waffle House was taken into custody Monday, police said. → Read More

Police: Waffle House suspect arrested

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The suspect in a quadruple homicide at a Nashville Waffle House was taken into custody Monday, police said. → Read More

'It was life or death,' says man who snatched gunman's AR-15

Shaw said that after going to a nightclub he had decided to stop with a friend early Sunday at a Waffle House. The first one he visited was too crowded with overnight patrons, so he ended up going to another in Nashville. As he entered the Waffle House, he was just two minutes ahead of the gunman, seating himself at a counter. Suddenly he heard a loud noise, thinking at first that freshly washed… → Read More