Archery season for deer begins Saturday throughout Tennessee. Crossbows and bows can be used until October 27. Hunters can bag four antlerless deer. That’s a male or female deer with no antlers protruding above the hairline. Hunters may only bag two antlered deer over the course of the year. Hunters must check their harvest before the end of each day, ... Read More »

Van Buren County 911 Board Chairman Brian Bricker said he expects the group will have a clean audit this year. The last two year’s audits had problems, including running in the red, Bricker said. Last year, the group reported themselves to the state and asked for help. Now there’s accounting controls in place, and a new director to make sure ... Read More »

The Van Buren County 911 Board may have an ultimatum for the city of Spencer. 911 Board Chairman Brian Bricker said they can’t afford to keep dispatching calls for the city of Spencer without more money. Bricker said they’ll ask their attorney about setting a date to stop dispatching service for Spencer. Bricker said the 911 center takes emergency calls ... Read More »

Commercial drivers can once again get their CDL in Cookeville. Sen. Paul Bailey was among those at a ceremony reopening the Cookeville Driver Testing Center’s CDL testing Friday. “This is going to help many, many people in the Upper Cumberland area for them to be able to come to the Cookeville location and take their pre-trip inspection as well as ... Read More »

A retired Tennessee Tech professor accepted a plea agreement and immediately began serving his prison sentence. District Attorney General Bryant Dunaway: “Roy Loutzenheiser, a former professor at Tennessee Tech, pled guilty this morning to attempted aggravated sexual battery. He took a plea, entered a plea in criminal court of Putnam County this morning and was immediately taken into custody and ... Read More »

Sheila Scruggs talks with Diane Glasgow from the Cookeville Junior Women’s Club about their upcoming event Wheels For The World on September 23rd. Read More »

A Cookeville High School student faces at least one criminal charge after posting an alleged threat on social media. Putnam County Schools Director Jerry Boyd would only identify the student as an upperclassman. That student was arrested by the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department early Monday morning. When our team was notified, or activated, in conjunction with the sheriff’s department, they ... Read More »

It’s been a game changer for Overton County and the city of Livingston. The opening of Central Park has given the community a gathering place to recreate – and a place to host events of all sizes. It can be the first step toward more efforts to change the downtown area. Mayor Curtis Hayes and local realtor Shannon Cantrell talk about the park and how it ... Read More »

Larry Stone interviews high school coaches and players from around the Upper Cumberland on their teams performance on Friday night, and the season to come. This week’s guests Coaches Jimmy Maynord, Matt Bates, Mark Wattenbarger, Michael Brown, and Steve Trapp. Read More »

TDOT’s bridge repair on I-40 near Monterey is nearly complete. Spokesman Jennifer Flynn said the paving will begin Sunday night. Rolling roadblocks and the assistance of the THP will help keep traffic moving and out of the work area. Workers will pave the eastbound lanes, then the westbound. TDOT has been repairing the bridge over State Route 24 at mile ... Read More »