JASPER, Tenn. — In an effort to keep pace with surrounding municipalities and offset rising costs, the Jasper Board of Mayor and Aldermen unanimously voted to raise the city’s court costs.

Business brought Betty Lewis and her husband to Northeast Alabama. But it was glistening Lake Guntersville that reeled them into Scottsboro.

Roger Layne has taken East Tech Company Inc. from a tiny upstart venture to a major manufacturing presence in the Chattanooga market with $5 million in annual sales.

Being the town drunk used to be a guaranteed way to dodge jury duty.

Arrests were up last year throughout Southeast Tennessee, although the numbers of reported crimes fluctuated, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s annual crime data report shows.

RINGGOLD, Ga. — Catoosa County Sheriff Phil Summers won’t have to worry about political fundraisers and putting out campaign signs this year. He is unopposed in the primary and general elections.

A woman who told police she was raped at gunpoint by men posing as police officers was arrested today for filing a false report, Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said.

Police used to plot crime trends in Tyrone, Ga., by sticking different colored pins into a map hanging on the squad room wall.

Fort Lanes is more than a bowling alley to Marsha Raper.

CLEVELAND, Tenn. — Theories have changed about how a triple slaying was carried out here on Valentine’s Day 1999, and the state is revamping its case against three suspects.