Regular bus service between Lewisburg and Fayetteville could be available for a few days next week as a potential byproduct of the court system's need to shuttle jurors to a trial. Arrangements could be made for someone who wants to go from here to Fayetteville and back on vans that would otherwise be empty, according to Sanford Potts, transportation director for the south central Tennessee Development District in Columbia... more

The Goats, Music and More Festival is just around the corner on Oct. 12 and 13 at Rock Creek Park, and once again local businesses and other local donors are doing their share to make this year's festival the best yet. The Goats, Music and More Festival is free and open to the public each year allowing folks to not only enjoy the goat shows, great food, fun activities and events, but also two full nights of amazing entertainment. ... more

A Chapel Hill woman was honored last week at the Tennessee State Fair for her years of dedicated service. The Nora Strasser Milking Parlor was dedicated Thursday at the fairgrounds in Nashville with loving memories of the dedicated dairy farmer, wife, mother, community volunteer and dairy superintendent at the fair... more

Applications reviewed Oct. 19 more

Jurors for the second defendant in the murder of a local restaurateur are to be selected Thursday and possibly Friday in Fayetteville because of a ruling by Judge Robert Crigler. Robert Marlow of Shelbyville -- defense attorney for Daniel Caluo Vasquez, 31, who was charged in the stabbing death of Wing Chiu Li nearly 15 months ago -- asked that the trial be conducted somewhere else because residents here have become familiar with the case... more

A Pulaski woman has pleaded guilty to second degree murder and TennCare fraud since she provided methadone to a man who died from an overdose, officials say. Christy R. Corbin, 34, had been charged with trading her methadone, prescribed by a TennCare-paid doctor, to a man in exchange for an illegal cable connection at her home... more

A Lewisburg woman who resigned from her job as a city police dispatcher has filed a complaint with the Tennessee Human Rights Commission alleging she was ignored for transfer to be a patrol officer because she's a woman. "It's just wrong," Police Chief Doug Alexander said this week when asked about Amanda Newcomb's complaint filed in late March... more

Enforcement of immigration laws was considered by Marshall County's Jail Committee members on Wednesday evening when they realized about $150,000 is needed in next year's budget for enforcement issues. Immigration enforcement in nearby communities will make the problem worse here... more

Moms on a Mission are speaking at Cornersville High School next week, in part, to remember terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 six years ago. "We're going Monday," said Barb Blackmore, one of the leaders of the group that keeps track of Marshall County residents serving in the U.S. military... more

The director of Marshall County schools has been ordered by Chancellor J.B. Cox to refrain from distributing a chart comparing insurance benefits available from the school board and two education associations. Chancellor Cox has also ordered Director John D. Pierce and the school board to stop using a payroll deduction form, as a result of a hearing conducted for litigation filed three months ago by the Marshall County Education Association... more

A month has passed since two Lewisburg residents were found dead in their store on West Commerce Street, and while there may not be much mystery left in what happened, the landlord and former customers are left in the lurch. Former customers of the now-closed SmartWay Sell-n-Ship office have asked about the merchandise the business was handling for them, but the building's owner, Sherrell McConnell, says, "I won't release anything until I'm told that I can and to whom."... more

Management of the Marshall County stockyard may have been changed months ago, but the business' transfer is to be consummated by the Tennessee Public Livestock Market Charter Board this afternoon when it meets in the Courthouse Annex. State oversight is to be sure the producers get their money for the sale of their livestock, according to an official with the Tennessee Department of Agriculture. ... more

Nephew says he helped water uncle's marijuana plants more

Blasting and drilling holes for explosives have begun along Old Belfast Road where a 4,200-foot sewer extension is to be laid by a city contractor being paid $237,300, according to the Lewisburg Water and Wastewater Department. "We had bids as high as $90 per foot so we rejected all bid, negotiated with R&J Construction of La Vergne, and came up with $56.50 per foot, including the drilling," Superintendent Larry E. Jones said of the cost for the project that's just begun... more

'This crime demands to be prosecuted' more

A physician who had been practicing in Chapel Hill, where he was writing prescriptions for pain medication when it wasn't needed, has permanently surrendered his license to practice medicine, according to the Tennessee Department of Health. Dr. Robert W. ... more

Owner's hearing postponed more

Crigler sets Oct. 22 for sentencing more

From Iraq and back to the Tennessee Valley, comments by U.S. Sen. Bob Corker during his visit to Lewisburg last week were refocused on illegal immigration by constituents who spoke up in the Marshall County Courthouse Annex. After Sen. Corker insisted he's found no evidence of plans for a highway from Mexico through the United States to Canada, despite Quinton Looney's repeated reports he says he's received through the media, Mike Sherrell asked why there's been no enforcement against illegal immigration.. ... more

An investigation is being conducted by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation into communication and decisions among Lewisburg police with regard to an allegation of underage drinking by a teenage resident, local officials have said. Lewisburg City Manager Eddie Fuller confirmed information that the investigation had started and he described a chain of events that could become the subject of the state investigator's report... more