Editor's note: This is the last in a series on how area residents view the subject of sex education in our schools. Tom Dumser is convinced of the need for sex education for today's youth, but he is also convinced that not just any education program will be effective in reducing the rise in teenage pregnancy or the spread of sexually transmitted diseases... more

The man who confessed to robbing a Lewisburg convenience store clerk at knife-point on Aug. 30 has been sentenced to 11.5 years in prison by Marshall County Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler. Robert Derrick Johnson, 36, of Shelbyville pleaded guilty on Wednesday to Crigler, who sanctioned the sentence as negotiated for Johnson by Shelbyville-based attorney Robert Marlow with Assistant District Attorney Eddie Barnard... more

SHELBYVILLE -- A Lewisburg woman lost her job as a Bedford County jailer, along with two other correctional officers, for their role in a "fashion" show by female inmates last month. The show allegedly included partial nudity, however, Bedford County Sheriff Randall Boyce and his department's chief administrator, Larry Lowman, said that was only because of a bikini made from a sweatshirt... more

Editor's note: The Marshall County Board of Education has scheduled a public hearing Dec. 11 concerning state-mandated "family education" classes to be taught to all Marshall County eighth-graders. Fol-lowing is the first of a two-part series on how area residents view the subject of sex education in our schools... more

Editor's note: The Marshall County Board of Education has scheduled a public hearing Dec. 11 concerning state-mandated "family education" classes to be taught to all Marshall County eighth-graders. Fol-lowing is the first of a two-part series on how area residents view the subject of sex education in our schools... more

The Lewisburg Elks Club on Sunday honored the families of three Marshall County warriors who died while fighting for security here and against insurgents in Afghanistan and Iraq. Receiving the Medal of Valor were relatives of Todd Edward Nunes, David Hierholzer and Marcus Andrew Golczynski. The medal is a new gesture this year by the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks... more

Editor's note: The following story was inadvertently omitted from Friday's paper. It is reprinted here in its entirety. The regional panel supervising a state-required plan for disposal of garage and other solid waste has forwarded a request for expansion of Cedar Ridge Landfill to sate environmental regulators... more

FRANKLIN -- Tennessee Farm Bureau delegates attending their 86th Annual Convention Tuesday at Franklin's Cool Springs Marriott re-elected Cumberland County beef farmer Lacy Upchurch as president of the nation's largest state Farm Bureau organization... more

CHAPEL HILL -- Forrest High School Band Director Billy Wayne Bateman has been named Chapel Hill Citizen of the Year. Bateman was born in Lynchburg on Nov. 1, 1948. He grew up and attended school there, graduating from high school in 1966. He was the drum major for his high school band. ... more

CHAPEL HILL -- A Caney Springs man was arrested Sunday night and charged with the Saturday night burglary of H&S Pharmacy, where a glass door was shattered and pain pills were stolen. Police Chief Jackie King said Daniel Stovall, 24, of 3857 Hearthstone Drive, was arrested by Officer Brian McCandless. Both men are due in Marshall County General Sessions Court for a Jan. 29 hearing... more

Marshall County commissioners have stepped away from entering a contract with Buxton Co., the Fort Worth, Texas-based business offering to analyze consumers here to attract restaurants and other retailers. "Why do it now without an economic and community development director?" County Commissioner Mary Ann Neill asked during this month's commission meeting. Plans to hire Buxton, she added, "have been on hold for months."... more

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The number of pregnancies among girls aged 15-17 in Marshall County remains high enough again to require continued family life instruction through the school system, according to state and local officials. Heather Lodari, coordinator of School Health Programs for the Marshall County School System, reported the situation to the Board of Education during its November meeting... more

A grease fire damaged an apartment at the Mansard House Apartments Wednes-day about 7:15 pm. A third-floor resident left her apartment thinking the stove was off, but it was still on and a grease fire broke out. The damage was confined to the apartment where the fire started, according to Lewisburg Fire Chief Larry Williams. The unit suffered extensive fire, heat, smoke and water damage... more

Indictments issued by the Marshall County Grand Jury this month allege theft of lottery tickets, burglary suspects taking a gun, money taken from a pizza delivery store and statutory rape. True bills of indictment were issued one week ago today, but some of the defendants were not arrested until after Judge Robert Crigler issued a bench warrant because they were the subject of sealed indictments from original information instead of cases that had been heard in Marshall County General Sessions Court.. ... more

A pre-dawn fire Monday took the lives of approximately 30 Spotted Saddle Horses. The blaze at Dickie Gardner Stables, Whitaker Road, was discovered after 3 a.m., officials said. "Some neighbors saw it and called us," Gardner said. "We (Gardner and his wife, Misti) got here and tried to get in but the firefighters wouldn't let us inside. They said it was already too far gone."... more

From Staff Reports CORNERSVILLE -- Marshall County Sheriff's investigators are asking for help in identifying a body found along Lynnville Highway on Sunday. "The body was found about 11 a.m. Sunday," said Sheriff Les Helton. "The body was discovered by a passer-by on his way to church and he called it in."... more