Sequatchie County Veterans Service officer Charles Tiede says intensive training and more room mean better service for area veterans at the new office now open on Church Street in Dunlap.
When I joined the group of writers who review restaurants for Current, my real motivation was to try food I’d never eaten.
Two area school systems were among 10 in Tennessee that got part of $50,000 in grants awarded by a national cellphone company foundation to enhance teacher development and pay for training so they can boost student performance.
A 42-year-old Polk County, Tenn., man whose body was found Saturday inside a steel garage building had been hit on the head in what is being called a homicide, authorities said.
Brenda Brown, accused last August in the slayings of two elderly sisters in Bledsoe County, Tenn., has been sent to a Nashville prison after her probation was revoked in an unrelated 2010 conviction, according to court officials and records.
While lawmakers in Nashville and Gov. Bill Haslam's office wrestle over numbers and the proposed closure of Taft Youth Development Center, a judge in Rhea County says closing the facility is a "smoke screen" for eventual privatization of juvenile justice in Tennessee.
State and local authorities were drawn into the arrest of a Guild, Tenn., man in a shooting incident on Interstate 24 near the Jasper exit Thursday night, authorities said.
A Guild, Tenn., man was jailed Thursday night after authorities say he fired shots at another vehicle on Interstate 24 near Jasper, Tenn.
The 1 cent education special purpose local option sales tax Dade County voters have approved every election cycle since 1997 will appear again on the March 6 ballot, according to officials.
ALTAMONT, Tenn. -- Grundy County Mayor Lonnie Cleek doesn't dispute findings in a state comptroller's report released last week, but he takes issue with an assertion that county officials don't care about record-keeping.
Kazuma, a 14-year-old male African lion saved from a life of abuse in a problematic Guatemalan circus, found a new home this month at Tigers for Tomorrow at Untamed Mountain.
A private audit of the Richard Hardy Memorial School in Marion County says it missed a principal and interest payment in September and the auditor expressed "going concerns" about the K-12 school's finances.
Longtime Bledsoe County Vocational School principal Jennifer L. Terry was picked from a field of five this week as the county's next director of schools, replacing retiring schools leader Phil Kiper.
Marion and Roane counties got a piece of almost $190,000 in collection grants to establish, upgrade and expand used motor oil collection centers in 15 communities across Tennessee, according to a release from Gov. Bill Haslam’s office.
A man and his parents are charged in Franklin County, Tenn., with writing about $25,000 worth of bad checks to Kroger, authorities said.
Last April's tornadoes revealed that some arms of the federal government still believed Dade County, Ga., was led by a sole commissioner, causing some minor paperwork problems that officials say should end this month with a name change for the county governing body.
It’s been three decades since Bledsoe County had a new property assessor, but Phillip “Winky” Cagle’s retirement last year left a vacancy that has attracted a field of five to the March primaries, election records show.
If you were ever wishing for a cheap piece of Sequatchie County, today could be your day. County Commissioner Denise Kell says 55 tax delinquent parcels will go on the block this morning with starting bids at the level of tax owed and expenses associated with selling it.
Puckett EMS' new ambulance service in Dade County has been "smooth as silk," fielding as many as 60 calls over the first two weeks of its contract, officials said.
A 27-year-old man whose body was found inside a car at Lowe's in Kimball, Tenn., died from self-inflicted wounds, police said.
Police in Kimball, Tenn., say a body found inside a car Wednesday in the parking lot at the Lowe’s Home Improvement store near Interstate 24 is that of a 27-year-old Indiana man.
Echoes of a time long past, of trading with the Cherokees and mail carried by horseback and rail, live on in a tiny post office nestled in the steep, mountainous terrain of western Polk County.
Bledsoe County school board members will pick from five local candidates for the school system’s top slot, beginning with interviews set for Jan. 19.
RINGGOLD, Ga. — A 2009 incentive package for Shaw Industries’ Ringgold plant was renewed and a loan for property on state Highway 151 was renewed Tuesday by the Catoosa County Economic Development Authority.
HALETOWN, Tenn. -- When the 1929-era Marion Memorial Bridge was dedicated, 5-year-old Madge Knight Boggild rode in the back of a Ford Model T truck as it became the first vehicle to cross the newly built span across the Tennessee River in Marion County.
Grundy County Sheriff Brent Myers and a Tracy City, Tenn.-based television company are the targets of a $250,000 defamation, libel and slander suit filed by two area men Wednesday in Circuit Court.
More than 5,000 households have signed up for a new weather alert system in Jackson County, Ala., where eight people died in four tornadoes last April.
TRENTON, Ga. — A year behind schedule, the Dade County Public Library renovation and expansion project is back on track this week with a new contractor and a 120-day schedule for completion, officials said.
DUNLAP, Tenn. -- Dunlap and Sequatchie County have not regained all the ground lost during the economic plunge, but incoming industry Mann+Hummel and retailers such as Tractor Supply and Verizon Wireless are sprouting up along the town's main drag as signs of a rebound continue.
The proposed closing of the Taft Youth Development Center in Pikeville, Tenn., is the discussion topic for a town hall meeting Tuesday called by state Sen. Eric Stewart, one of several lawmakers in bipartisan opposition to the closure.
A resolution to exercise more in 2012 doesn't have to start in a confined space amid scores of sweaty bodies.
McMinn County authorities say the man shot to death by sheriff's deputies Monday was the target of a chop shop investigation going back to July.
A stiff, 41-degree sleet-filled wind blasted workers Tuesday at the $21.5 million Marion Memorial Bridge replacement project.
Grundy County likes to be known for a natural beauty that attracts outdoor enthusiasts to hike, watch wildlife and take in views of the uncluttered South Cumberland Plateau, according to preservationists and local officials.
An unexpired seat on the Grundy County Commission, the property assessor's post and the 12th Judicial District public defender's seat will be on the ballot for March 2012 primary elections, according to officials.
The adult education program in Sequatchie County has taken over the program in neighboring Marion County because of state budget cuts, a lack of participation and a lack of records reporting this fall, officials said.
It's no YMCA and a far cry from a daycare. Taft Youth Development Center in Bledsoe County houses about 100 of the state's hardest juvenile cases, something it's done for more than nine decades.
So what do you want on your 2,600 pizzas? The Marion County school system is taking bids for "fresh cooked and delivered pizza," officials said.
A fledgling philanthropic group in Marion County has targeted eight community projects for holiday season work.
Mann+Hummel USA, the new automotive parts maker coming to Dunlap, Tenn., will likely sign a lease in the next few days for the former Seymour Tubing property on the north end of Dunlap, according to the town’s mayor, Dwain Land.
Grundy County commissioners voted Monday to hire architectural firm TWH Architects to produce designs for a new jail and for expansion of the existing jail to resolve overcrowding and safety problems.
Saturday's nonpartisan showdown for mayor of Pikeville, Tenn., will pit a former state representative against a two-term incumbent and a local resident who has run for city and county posts in the past.
An agreement signed Tuesday will lease the Polk Medical Center to the Hospital Authority of Floyd County, which promises to do $2 million worth of renovations to the facility and build a new, 25-bed replacement by 2016, officials said.
Most counties in Southeast Tennessee and North Georgia had widespread flooding but no major problems after relentless rains began Sunday, officials said.
Normally, Black Friday is the day the most dedicated deal hunters wake up hours before sunup. But this year, dedicated shoppers stayed up late, and many didn't sleep at all.
Franklin County authorities on Wednesday charged a local man with reckless endangerment, aggravated assault and unlawful possession of a firearm.
A free, one-day veterans benefits "supermarket" and health fair is set for veterans and their families in Whitfield and surrounding counties, organizers say.
NASHVILLE -- A proposal to close Taft Youth Center in Bledsoe County is drawing bipartisan objections from area state lawmakers.
Folks at Sequatchie County Middle School are celebrating their escape from the state’s “high-priority” schools list for the first time in five years.
