Stories from Thursday, March 29, 2012

A Marshall County man died in a motorcycle crash on Highway 99 Wednesday evening, the Tennessee Highway Patrol has reported. George R. Pruitt Jr., 52, of Harthstone Drive, Chapel Hill, was stopped on the highway waiting to turn left onto Hearthstone when a pickup struck his motorcycle from behind, according to Dispatcher Greg Griffin at the Tennessee Highway Patrol post at Lawrenceburg.

Marshall County's unemployment rate was unchanged from January to February, according to statistics released Thursday. The county's 12.7 percent jobless rate was the seventh highest in the state, the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development reported.