Sam Little of Tok, Alaska, wants to succeed Sarah Palin as governor of Alaska so while he was in Nashville on country music business, he bought a campaign bus that's being converted from a gospel music group's touring bus. Since he was in Tennessee, Little came to Lewisburg and attended the Marshall County Republican Party's Presidents' Day Dinner on Saturday evening in Lewisburg's Recreation Center just south of Mooresville Highway where he explained his politics... more

CHAPEL HILL - As the prospect of private management of the restaurant at Henry Horton State Park was raised recently, the question about whether wine could be served with meals, just as beer is now sold at the park's golf course clubhouse. Doing so could "do more harm than good," according to Jim Fyke, Tennessee's commissioner of environment and conservation, who met for a couple of hours on Friday morning with several county leaders who are concerned that the state park restaurant is not in next year's budget.. ... more

CHAPEL HILL - The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation wants to keep Henry Horton State Park's restaurant open, but it needs more patrons and/or a private operator to step up to the plate. That was TDEC Commissioner Jim Fyke's message to Marshall County leaders meeting with him for a couple of hours Friday morning at the park's inn where ideas were discussed on how to increase business and reduce costs... more

Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam and Shelbyville Sen. Jim Tracy won straw polls for nomination to be Republican candidates for governor and congressman, respectively, at the Marshall County GOP dinner in Lewisburg's Recreation Center on Saturday. Campaigning on his business experience with 325 Pilot Travel Centers nationally, Haslam got 113 of the 277 votes cast in the straw poll to win a plurality at nearly 41 percent. ... more

SHELBYVILLE -- Local authorities said Monday they haven't been able to question a Tennessee woman who returned her adopted 7-year-old son to Russia, where authorities threatened to suspend all child adoptions by U.S. families. more

SHELBYVILLE -- Efforts were underway Tuesday to arrange for an interview with the Russian boy who has claimed he was abused by his adoptive family here. more

Trash, gas and videotape are topics for Lewisburg's City Council meeting on Tuesday night in City Hall. more

With 34 candidates running for 18 seats on the Marshall County Commission, five candidates for sheriff and three for county mayor, there's sure to be someone to like on the county's Aug. 5 general election ballot. more

Federal economic stimulus money is being made available to combat Marshall County's unemployment rate. more

The Titans Caravan XIII events at Marshall County High School and Chapel Hill Elementary School on Monday are closed to the public. more

ANES STATION - A Marshall County dairyman's life was saved Monday morning from the swift waters of Rock Creek where every year he and others fish for suckers returning to lay eggs and restart their life cycle. more

Classes were suspended Friday and Thursday afternoon at Columbia State Community College's Lewisburg campus as a result of an emergency and lack of staff. more

Noon Thursday is the deadline for candidates to withdraw their petitions from the Marshall County Election Commission to prevent their names from being printed on the ballot in the Aug. 5 elections. If a candidate who has filed a petition and who was qualified as having at least 25 signatures from locally registered voters and who has decided against running for office will have their names on the ballot unless they withdraw... more

The plaque naming three military servicemen from Marshall County was returned on Monday to a stone pedestal in Rock Creek Park where it pays tribute to military service men and women who fought and died for freedom. One month ago, a juvenile took the metal plaque from the pedestal and dropped it from the pedestrian bridge over Rock Creek, according to city officials. Lewisburg Firefighter Wayne Blackwell recovered the plaque from Rock Creek on March 8... more

NASHVILLE - Gov. Phil Bredesen today announced a plan to reduce unemployment in Marshall County by putting up to 175 people back to work using federal dollars available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Marshall County has had the state's highest unemployment rate - 19.1 percent in February - for the past three months and includes 2,330 currently unemployed residents. Federal economic stimulus money is to be spent to combat unemployment, the governor said... more

Kindergarten registration will be held Thursday, April 8, in Lewisburg, Chapel Hill, and Cornersville. For more details of where to register and what documents to bring with you, contact the Board of Education at 359-1581. Parents of school-age children: Under a new Tennessee immunization requirement, children entering 7th grade in 2010 will be required to have a Tdap and Varicella booster. ... more

District Attorney Chuck Crawford has the names of eight felons who have registered to vote in Marshal County and he's opened an investigation into whether any of them registered after they were convicted, according to the state prosecutor's office for this and three other counties... more

An alleged triggerman has been named by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation in the shooting of a Marshall County man in the head last week. Phillip Owen Grissom, 26, "shot Ralph Fuller with a .22 caliber rifle," according to TBI Agent Wayne Wesson, who said so in an arrest warrant issued for Grissom... more

SHELBYVILLE - What's ostensibly a malt shop here for bobby-soxers after a movie at the Capri Theater is really a front for bluegrass and, as many Marshall County residents know, it's coming to Lewisburg's public square. And yet, 50's & Fiddles, the restaurant and music venue, is also appearing in living rooms throughout Middle Tennessee on Thursday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 10 p.m. if the TVs are tuned in to the public television station at Nashville... more

Residents of one Lewisburg street apparently thought the Census Bureau had forgotten them this decade. It appears that many residents of Creekside Drive, a dead-end street next to the golf course on Fayetteville Highway, did not get census forms when other people in Marshall County found them in the mailbox... more