By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer An association of property owners and merchants working to improve Lewisburg's public square has been awarded a $15,000 state grant to reimburse spending on several projects. To proceed with plans, the Lewisburg Downtown Alliance needs the city, as a sponsoring entity, to receive receipts for expenses so bills could be forwarded to Tennessee which would draw down grant monies to pay project costs... more

By Karen Hall Staff Writer A woman who used to live in Chapel Hill pled guilty to sex charges earlier this month, and was placed on probation. Jeana Lynn Gunter, 35, who now gives her address as Centerville, pled guilty to one count each of criminal attempted sexual exploitation of a minor and sexual exploitation of a minor by electronic means. Six other counts of sexual exploitation by electronic means were dismissed... more

Marshall County Sheriff Norman Dalton on Wednesday said two of his detectives apprehended a man accused of dealing crack cocaine and also selling a substance that looks like cocaine, but is not a drug. Jamie Allen Perryman, 20, was found at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and charged with two counts of allegedly selling crack cocaine, and a charge of selling a counterfeit substance, Dalton said. The counterfeit offense comes from selling something similar to an illegal drug such as selling baby powder as if it was cocaine. more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer The FBI, 17th Judicial District Drug Task Force, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Marshall County Sheriff's Department are investigating the Nov. 21 shooting death of a Marshall County woman. The body of Penny Blackwell Coyle, 51, of Verona Caney Road, was found slumped over on the driver's side of her car beside Old Rock Crusher Road that Monday night. Her death is being treated as a homicide... more

By Karen Hall Staff Writer A Chapel Hill man is to be re-sentenced by the Marshall County Circuit Court because the Court of Criminal Appeals this month overturned some of his convictions. The defendant remains convicted of beating a retired man so badly that his skull and jaw were broken. He was in a coma during much of his recovery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center... more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer Lewisburg's water board refused to pay for a proposed channel so fish could swim around the dam at Milltown so quickly that the decision was made before the chairman called for the vote. That chain of events during this month's meeting of the Water and Wastewater Board cut short Superintendent Kenneth Carr's explanation about what had been sought by the Nature Conservancy, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service... more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer Consolidation of city and county governments in Marshall County appears to be a dead issue, according to comments from county commissioners on Monday night. "As instructed, Mayor (Joe Boyd) Liggett and I did inquire" with municipal leaders about consolidation under a metro charter, said Commissioner Don Ledford who sought a study committee on the subject he raised on Sept. 26. "We found no interest there."... more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer Signs of winter and the approaching Christmas are emerging throughout Marshall County as shoppers rule the stores, cities decorate public places, and a pageant opens this week at the community theatre. "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever," opening Friday for a two-weekend engagement in the old Dixie Theater here, is the story of six unruly youngsters who, ultimately, teach the true meaning of the birth of the Christ child... more

A young Chapel Hill woman is excited to be back in Marshall County to start her legal career. Debbie Zimmerle, 26, graduated from law school and passed the Bar exam this summer, and this week she joined the law office of David McKenzie in Lewisburg. more

Marshall County commissioners on Monday are scheduled to consider changing rules on construction permits where public water service is unavailable so rain collection systems are allowable. more

CHAPEL HILL - A crossing guard's sign was accidentally struck by a motorist Monday morning in front of Chapel Hill Elementary School. more

A fair to fill seasonal jobs will be held Monday more

The Marshall County Sheriff's Department is looking for a man accused of dealing crack cocaine and selling a substance that looks like cocaine, but is not a drug. "We're looking for a guy named Jamie Perryman, a black male, 6-foot tall, weighing 165 pounds whose date of birth is Feb. 18, 1991," Sheriff Norman Dalton said Tuesday morning. more

Marshall County's unemployment rate continues to go down, but it's still well into double-digit figures, meaning it's higher than state and national rates. The unemployment rate went down from 13.9 percent in September to 13.2 percent in October, according to a state report issued on Wednesday afternoon. more

Nearly 180 election officials from Middle Tennessee counties attended training seminars Thursday at Henry Horton State Park and learned what to do if someone wants to vote without a government identification card showing their photograph. more

The Verona Caney Road woman found shot to death in a car Monday night probably knew her killer, according to her stepdaughter. "I just think it has to be somebody she knew... somebody she trusted... or she wouldn't have pulled over," said Robin Coyle, 24, stepdaughter of Penny Blackwell Coyle, 51. more

By Karen Hall Staff Writer A Lewisburg woman had her appeal denied by the Court of Criminal Appeals this month. Tianje R. Johnson, 45, pled guilty in February 2010 to four counts of sale of crack cocaine, four counts of delivery of crack cocaine, and two counts of possession of crack cocaine with intent to sell or deliver. The quantity of crack involved in the possession charge was enough to make it a B Felony... more

From staff reports PETERSBURG - The town's Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Monday appointed a former mayor to serve the unexpired portion of an alderman who's moved to Fayetteville. Barbara Woodward succeeds Allen Moorehead who's now a deputy working for Lincoln County Sheriff Murray Blackwell. Moorehead was also a Petersburg policeman. Woodward served as interim mayor for eight months after Richard Fulger died in 2004... more

By Clint Confehr Senior Staff Writer CHAPEL HILL - The town's newest member of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen isn't from here, but she grew up in Williamson County when it was country like this north Marshall County town. Dorothy "Dottie" Morton is so laid back about her seat on the town board that she's unsure about exactly when she was sworn in, when the unexpired term of her predecessor ends, and whether she plans to run for election to the position... more

From staff reports Less than a half hour before the Cash Express on Nashville Highway was to open Wednesday morning, a blue Pontiac Montana crashed through the front glass door and picture windows, Lewisburg Police said. There was no personal injury or citation issued as a result of the accident. Mary Sheffield of Chapel Hill "was trying to park," Officer Clyde Ragsdale said. "Her foot slipped off the brake and hit the accelerator."... more