Cumberland County Sheriffs deputies and Crossville Police ended a high speed chase down I-40 Sunday with the arrest of a North Carolina man. The Tennessee Highway Patrol in pursuit of 33-year-old David Vann Edwards Jr. as he approached Cumberland County from the east. Edwards was holding his girlfriend and three children hostage in a Ford Mustang according to the Sheriffs ... Read More »

A Cookeville man died Saturday night in a one-vehicle wreak on Highway 111. 22-year-old Lance Jackson died when his car ran off the left side of the roadway and crossed the median. According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Jackson tried to over-correct and the vehicle ran off the highway, down an embankment, and struck a tree. Jackson died on the ... Read More »

The Putnam County School Board will consider the creation of a committee to consider whether or not to change to Algood Middle School mascot. The board will consider the issue at its Thursday meeting. Director Of Schools Corby King said the members should include those with ties to the Algood community, including parents, faculty and school personnel, and member of ... Read More »

For the first time since October, Cookeville Regional Medical Center has seen COVID patient counts in the 40s on three back-to-back days. Wednesday, CRMC reported 40 inpatients with COVID-19. That number was 44 Tuesday, 43 Monday. Across the Upper Cumberland, just 57 new COVID cases were reported Wednesday. So far this week, 154 new cases have been reported in the ... Read More »

A Livingston woman arrested Tuesday on arson charges resulting from a July, 2020 fire. 46-year-old Tracy Lee Hargis booked into the Overton County Jail on one count of arson. The TBI and the Overton County Sheriffs Department investigated a fire on Swallows Chapel Road July 6. TBI Special Agents found Hargis had been responsible for starting the fire at the ... Read More »

The Tennessee State Review Board delayed a decision on adding the Twinton Fire Lookout Tower to the National Register of Historic Places. Tennessee Tech History Professor Michael Birdwell said the Overton County facility needed more documentation about its historical significance. “This is stuff that’s not hard to find,” Birdwell said. “Been working with the Highlander Project for six years, I ... Read More »

Cookeville Regional set to begin construction on a new Cath Lab. The 12-month project will replace the current lab one, built in 1993. Cookeville Regional Project Manager Scott Roder said his team plans carefully to avoid any disruptions to the patient rooms and emergency room facilities located above and below the lab. “We do two week look aheads before we ... Read More »

District Attorney Bryant Dunaway cleared a White County Sheriff’s Deputy for the January 8 killing of a White County man. Dunaway said there is no evidence Deputy Cliff Altobelli used excessive force or committed a criminal offense in the shooting of 47-year-old Charlie Williams. Williams died as deputies tried to serve an arrest warrant at his Woodland Trail home in ... Read More »

Putnam County will apply for a community development block grant to replace a fire truck in the Gentry Community. County Mayor Randy Porter said the grant would replace a 1980s-vintage mini pumper at the Gentry station. If approved, the residents within five miles of the fire station would see an improvement in the insurance rankings from a ten to a ... Read More »

Putnam County Commissioners approved the purchase Monday night of three lots along McBroom Chapel Road for the construction of a tornado remembrance park. County Mayor Randy Porter said the three homes at the corner of Hensley Drive were destroyed in the tornado and the homeowners chose not to rebuild. “That’s kind of the eye of the storm I guess you ... Read More »