DRIVER GUILTY IN TROOPER'S DEATH

A White House, Tennessee truck driver who struck and killed a Tennessee state trooper last year pleaded guilty Monday to vehicular homicide but was not sentenced to prison. As part of a plea agreement, Dickson County Circuit Judge George Sexton sentenced Mitchell Wayne Bowers, 47, to three years with the Tennessee Department of Correction. The sentence was suspended to time served.

Bowers was jailed from July 2005 to September 2005, according to prosecutors.

He pleaded guilty to killing Highway Patrol Trooper Todd Larkins in July 2005 on Interstate 40 in Dickson County. Larkins was struck as he stood near a motorist he had pulled over in the eastbound lane. Bowers also was fined $50 plus court costs for violating the "move over" law, which was strengthened after the incident. The law requires motorists to move over or slow down for stopped emergency vehicles.