Chapel Hill residents living inside the city limits are urged to apply for a portion of the grant money the town received from the Tennessee Housing Development Authority. "This is an opportunity to help our citizens to improve their homes and in all matters reduce their electric bill," said Mayor Carl Cooper. ... more

Marshall County motorists may be getting a different kind of wheel tax sticker next year, according to discussion during the most recent meeting of the county commission's budget committee. "We spend about $2,400 a year on stickers," County Clerk Daphne Fagan told committeemen, adding examples from other counties and how changing her office sticker practice will save money and prompt compliance... more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer The 17th Judicial District's loss -- with the prosecutor's resignation next July -- is the Fayetteville school system's gain as the top law enforcement officer in Marshall, Lincoln, Bedford and Moore counties will be teaching American history and government next fall... more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer The former Giles County sheriff who's represented Marshall County in the state House since 2006 is retiring from the General Assembly. State Rep. Eddie Bass, a Democrat who had considered running for re-election as a Republican, announced Monday morning that he will not be a candidate to represent the 70th District... more

By Brian Mosely Special to the Tribune An undercover investigation into animal abuse in the Walking Horse industry is only "the tip of the iceberg," a spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) told the Shelbyville Times-Gazette. Late last week, a 52-count federal indictment alleging a conspiracy to sore horses was unsealed against prominent trainer Jackie L. ... more

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum was the favorite candidate for the Republican nomination to run against President Barack Obama in November, according to primary election results in Marshall County and across Tennessee. more

District Attorney Chuck Crawford, the top prosecutor in Marshall, Bedford, Lincoln and Moore counties' criminal courts, has been hired by the Fayetteville City School System to teach American history and government.Dr. Janine Wilson, director of the city school system, announced to the Board of Education on Monday night that Crawford, who's also served as Lincoln County's session and juvenile court judge, would be teaching at the city's new high school next fall. more

Melanie Gordon is a native of Lewisburg, proud of her Marshall County ancestral heritage, has been a community volunteer and artistic preservationist who works in pencil. Melanie received hands-on training with Lewisburg Printing in the early 70's in the graphics department along with being the first operator of a computer typesetting machine. ... more

Expenditures for the first half of the school year are mostly on track, school board budget committee members learned at a Tuesday night meeting. Led by chairman Donnie Moses, committee members worked their way through 31 pages of numbers relating to expenditures for the quarter ending Dec. 31... more

The Marshall County Farm Bureau Women's Leadership Committee observed Food Check-Out Week (Feb. 19-25) by collecting food money amounting to more than $100 to be distributed to needy community members through the Good Samaritan Corporation of Marshall County... more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer Lewisburg has changed insurance agents from a man in Hohenwald to one at an agency on Nashville Highway, a move that's not changed the cost of the premium, but raised discussion during the recent council meeting about competitive bidding... more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer In a letter to his father shortly after he was arrested, a Marshall County Jail inmate who's charged with murder says he shot two men in self-defense after being accused of being a plainclothes policeman or a confidential informant... more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer While leading a tour of his home that's being built near Lynnville, Shaun Meadows was the first to climb up onto the just-placed floor decking, up from ground level without a ramp or step ladder. Maybe it's not so exceptional until you realize that the tour guide -- a retired U.S. Air Force staff sergeant -- lost both legs to an improvised explosive device blast during a reconnaissance patrol in Afghanistan in July 2008... more

District Attorney General Chuck Crawford of Lincoln County abruptly announced his resignation Thursday morning, saying he was "physically and emotionally drained." more

A prominent Tennessee Walking Horse trainer and three others were arrested Thursday and charged in a 52-count federal indictment with violations of the Horse Protection Act. Jackie L. McConnell, 60, Jeff Dockery, 54, John Mays, 50, all from Collierville, and Joseph R. Abernathy, 30, of Olive Branch, Miss., were charged with conspiracy to violate the protection act by transporting and showing horses they knew to be "sored" and also falsifying entry forms and paper work. more

By Clint Confher and Karen Hall Staff Writers On a split vote, Marshall County's commissioners Monday passed the resolution that allows all school employees to receive bonuses. Last week, the budget committeemen declined to endorse the resolution, so it came to the full commission without a recommendation... more

Thefts and vandalism reported Arrested and charged with driving under the influence Arrested and charged with public intoxication Arrested and charged with domestic assault Arrested on a warrant for sale of a Schedule III drug Arrested on warrants for sale of a Schedule II drug and conspiracy to distribute a Schedule II drug... more

From staff reports Applications for $5,000 scholarships from Waste Management are available now to Marshall County graduating seniors enrolling at Columbia State Community College for the fall semester. "The Waste Management Leadership Scholarship provides a significant contribution to educational opportunities for local Marshall County students who desire to seek further education through Columbia State Community College," Lewisburg campus director Elizabeth McDow said... more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer Joy Parker Orr, 72, of Village Manor has been voting since she was 21 years old, back before the voting age was lowered to18, and she's not about to stop voting. "That's a long time to be voting," Orr said last week in her apartment at the assisted living center on Tiger Boulevard. "I don't think I've ever missed one" opportunity to vote, she said after filling out a paper ballot in the Democratic primary for president... more

By Karen Hall Staff Writer A Lewisburg man who escaped jail for a weekend is back in custody, and will appear in General Sessions court next week. On Friday afternoon, Feb. 17, Jason Brian Hargrove, 29, walked away from the Solid Waste department where he was on work release, according to a report on file at the Marshall County Sheriff's Department... more