Former legislator Frank Buck who served Cannon, Dekalb and Smith Counties over some 18 terms, has died. Buck was 89. The Tennessee Tech graduate was born in Trousdale County and settled in Dekalb County. Buck elected to the State House in 1972 for the first of 18 terms. He retired in 2008. Buck received accolades for his work in ethics ... Read More »

The Fentress County Highway Department presented an updated county road list to Commissioners Monday night. Road Superintendent Ryan Reed said the list includes 714 roads with a total of 570 miles. “If you notice, that’s considerably lesser amount of miles than last year,” Reed said. “But we’ve done a major overhaul on our road list. We started in September. I ... Read More »

The juvenile charged in the death of Cookeville High student Alex Hughes Brooks last October pled guilty to all charges Thursday. The 17-year old, whose name has not been released, entered his plea in Juvenile Court to charges of Reckless Homicide, Aggravated Assault and Tampering With Evidence. District Attorney Bryant Dunaway said the juvenile has been in jail since October. ... Read More »

The Cumberland County Sheriffs Department and the TBI investigating an apparent homicide and assault in Fairfield Glade early Wednesday. The suspect in the case, 33-year-old Jason James Chapman, was found dead at an Arkansas hotel Wednesday afternoon from self-inflicted injuries, according to the department. Fairfield Glade Police responded to a domestic call at 510 Wimberly Road around 7:55am Wednesday morning. ... Read More »

Local power companies across the Upper Cumberland asking you to limit your power consumption during the next 18 hours. Temperatures near zero will be the coldest the region has seen since Christmas, 2022 when TVA imposed rolling blackouts to deal with energy consumption. TVA officials, working with local companies, invested money and time to limit the chances of that happening ... Read More »

Sunshine showed its power Tuesday though temperatures never got much about 18 degrees across the Upper Cumberland as the dig out begins from the Sunday-Monday storm. “We’ve actually been pretty pleasantly surprised today with the thawing that we’ve seen on the main roads,” Putnam County Emergency Management Director Brandon Smith said. “A lot of the side roads are still snow ... Read More »

A Roane County man arrested in the drug-related death of a woman at her Cumberland County workplace in August, 2021. 45-year-old Michael Paul Kerley charged with one count of Second Degree Murder and one count of the Manufacture, Sale, Delivery of Schedule II Narcotics. Kerley charged in the death of Ashley Nicole Cressel. The woman found unresponsive at her workplace ... Read More »

Roads across the Upper Cumberland reported snow covered and slick Monday morning. Most areas received three to four inches of snow from Sunday evening through early Monday morning. After a break, radar shows snowfall filling back in across the region. Emergency management officials urged residents to stay off the road. Fentress County officials reported the holiday has kept people at ... Read More »

An emergency cold weather shelter has been established for the homeless at the Cookeville Rescue Mission. The shelter opened at 3pm Sunday and will continue operations until further notice. Cookeville Police will provide transportation to the facility for those within the city limits who do not have access to transportation. The shelter is located at the Johnstone Building, purchased by ... Read More »

Tennessee Tech will cancel classes Tuesday because of “potentially dangerous weather conditions.” Classes are already cancelled for Monday and University offices closed due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. All University Offices will also be closed Tuesday. Officials made the decision Sunday evening. Read More »