NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- State Rep. Henry Fincher says he won't run to succeed fellow Democrat Bart Gordon in Congress. Fincher, a Cookeville attorney, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he would have to take 10 months off and raise at least $2 million to mount a successful bid... more

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...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM … more

Suspects have been arrested and charged with eight car burglaries in Lewisburg, according to city police who say the culprits are accused of similar crimes elsewhere in Tennessee and Alabama. Justin W. Clutts, 19, of Hazel Green, Ala., and James E. Bragg, 35, of Flintville, Lincoln County, "were taken into custody while committing several vehicle burglaries in Chattanooga" on Dec. 15, Police Detective Sgt. David Henley said in a New Year's Eve announcement... more

A Chapel Hill man who died last week left a lasting legacy in the form of a book that was just published and in the lives of the children he touched here in Marshall County. Eugene Pacetti, 75, died in Nashville on Dec. 23. He had visited the Tribune office earlier this month with a copy of the new book, "Heart, Laughter, and Sentiment - Poems and Short Stories for Your Every Day," which he wrote with his granddaughter. ... more

The Lewisburg man whose throat was cut during a robbery early this month is "recuperating well," according to a woman who kept pressure on the wound until an ambulance crew arrived. "He told me I'm his 'guardian angel,'" Linda Wallace said of her neighbor, Cleveland Holder, 52, of 432 First Avenue North, who nearly bled to death Dec. 3 on her front porch. "He's out of the hospital."... more

CHAPEL HILL - The Board of Mayor and Aldermen here has authorized preparation and submittal of an application for federal funding to improve a section of sewer along Eveningside Drive. Sewer repair is important because broken pipes allow groundwater to seep into the collection system and that increases the work for a treatment system, according to state and federal environmental officials... more

Both of the new school board members are ready and willing to get to work for the benefit of Marshall County's students and teachers, but both claim to be undecided about whether to run for election to the positions they now occupy. The County commission appointed Barbara Kennedy and Harvey Jones Jr. in November, to replace Todd Tietgens, who resigned, and Mark Wilkerson, who took a job out of state... more

A Maury County man who failed to appear for his jury trial last summer has been arrested and returned to Marshall County. Marcus L. Canty, 39, of Columbia, was recently located by deputies of the … more

Signups for Marshall County Youth Baseball and Softball will be held each Saturday in January. They will be held in Lewisburg, Cornersville and Chapel Hill. More information will be released later. The Marshall County Memorial Library will be closed Jan. 1, 2, and 3. The library will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Dec. 30 and 31... more

Dozens of Tennessee Army National Guardsmen left Lewisburg by bus Monday afternoon when friends and family saw them off at the Armory on Fayettville Highway, bound for Camp Shelby, Miss. The soldiers were home for Christmas, courtesy of a chartered coach made available at cost by a Lawrenceburg businessmen who was paid by contributions from relatives, friends and businesses - people who support the troops and their families... more

Marshall County, including the staff of the Marshall County Tribune, mourned the death of one of the county's great characters and the newspaper's longest-running columnist. Ruth Hastings, 90, died at her home Sunday morning. Her last column was delivered to the Tribune office in time to appear in the Christmas paper, and no one guessed that there would never be another one... more

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Christmas will be almost here by the time my column will be out. I am enjoying all my beautiful cards and am sorry I am a little late with ours. I wish I … more

Lewisburg's best-known police chaplain has asked for "closure" from the City Council on whether he can, or will, be hired as a police officer. Shaun Grant, an associate pastor at the First Assembly of God on West Ellington Parkway and one of three chaplains for police here, addressed the Council at the close of its December meeting... more

Signups for Marshall County Youth Baseball and Softball will be held each Saturday in January. They will be held in Lewisburg, Cornersville and Chapel Hill. More information will be released later. The Marshall County Recycling Convenience Centers will be open from 7 to 11 a.m. and 2 to 6 p.m. on Dec. 23, from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Dec. 24, and will be closed on Dec. 25... more

Other thefts and vandalism reported include: Arrested and charged with domestic assault Arrested as a fugitive from justice and served with a warrant out of Walton County, Fla., for sale of Schedule I and II drugs Served with an attachment out of Circuit Court... more

Garrett Lawrence is the 2009 Chapel Hill Citizen of the Year. Known as a successful entrepreneur, visionary, leader, loving father and husband, Lawrence loved fishing and worked hard at whatever was put in front of him. He graduated from Forrest High School in 1941 and attended Gupton-Jones Mortuary School in Nashville. After completing his degree in 1943, he joined in with his brother in starting Lawrence Funeral Home... more

Marshall County's August 2006 general election has been widely seen as being about two big issues - the landfill and a new rock quarry. That conventional wisdom has been repeated, substantiated and qualified by close observers of, and participants, in local government during the three years thereafter... more

Requests for probation for three defendants who pleaded guilty were granted last week by Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler. Tawyna Gail Eady, 42, Creek Drive, Lewisburg, is to serve six years' probation for arson, and one year for burning personal property, to run concurrent. Eady was also ordered to pay court costs... more

Winter's set in. Christmas is just around the corner and farm life remains attractive here in Marshall County where a young couple has decided it's a good place to raise children. Two more months will pass before Daniel and Kaitlyn Brindle will have their first child. He moved to the Andrews Spring Farm on the north side of town when he was 12. Years later, Daniel met Kaitlyn at a college in Ohio and he decided she'd be a good farm woman... more