Two men face charges after an attempt to pass counterfeit money at Kroger in Lewisburg on Aug. 9. LPD responded at 5:15 p.m. to find off-duty Sheriff’s Office Detective Tony Nichols holding two men at gunpoint in the parking lot. Nichols happened to be in the store and was alerted after the cashier told the men that the $100 bill was counterfeit... more

The Lewisburg City Council is back up to full strength. Councilmen voted unanimously to appoint C.H. Harwell to represent the city’s Third Ward at a special called meeting on Tuesday. The seat was vacated on July 3 when Councilman Bam Haislip tendered his resignation after having moved out of the district... more

A Lewisburg woman has been arrested in Colorado on a charge of theft, according to a release from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, aided by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, arrested Aleea Danielle Nash on Monday evening on a warrant from Marshall County for theft over $250,000... more

The 79th annual edition of the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration kicks off on Wednesday, Aug. 23 with the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders’ and Exhibitors’ Association National Futurity. It will be held at the Calsonic Arena on the Historic Celebration grounds in Shelbyville, Tenn... more

It’s almost time. After months of hype and planning, a total solar eclipse will snake across North America on Monday. Across the United States, millions of people are expected to travel to the path of totality, a 70-mile-wide ribbon where the sun will be completely covered by the moon... more

Education Commissioner Candice McQueen announced the nine finalists for the 2017-18 Tennessee Principal of the Year award today. Marshall County High School Principal John Bush is a finalist for the honor, representing the 13 county south central Tennessee region... more

Forty years later, Dennis Hamilton says people still ask him “The Question.” “Is Elvis really dead?” Hamilton, whose family now operates Bills-McGaugh and Hamilton Funeral Home in Lewisburg, has first-hand knowledge. He was one of the funeral directors who coordinated Elvis Presley’s funeral in Memphis in 1977... more

The Lewisburg Police Department charged a man with criminal homicide after a bar room argument turned deadly. Patrick Dean Armstrong, 26, was arrested late Friday night after a fight at Ole Steakhouse on Nashville Highway in Lewisburg. Police were called to the scene at approximately 11:45 p.m. finding a subject, James Dockery, 56, who had suffered blunt force trauma to the head... more

The sky will go dark on Monday, and now the Marshall County schools will go dark that day, too. The Marshall County Board of Education voted to close schools on August 21 due to concerns over issues with the solar eclipse. Meeting Monday night, Aug. 14, the board listened to principals from various schools discuss their concerns from parents and teachers about the eclipse... more

4-H has expanded the scope of their programming over the years to focus more on overall youth development. The roots of the club, originally intended to educate young farmers on new farming technology at the start of the 20th century, remain strongly rooted in agriculture, however... more

At their July 10 meeting the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen unanimously approved, with little discussion, the first reading of a request to rezone 55 acres, located between Eagleville Pike and Stevens Road. On Monday night, after a special called meeting attended by dozens of area residents and a work session on the issues raised, aldermen again voted 6-0 on the second and final reading to rezone the parcel... more

The Marshall County Memorial Library will be hosting a pre-solar eclipse event this Thursday, Aug. 17 at 4 p.m. Jennifer Pearson, of the Marshall County Memorial Library, stated that the event is educational and is open to all audiences. Guest speaker, Robert Jackson, will be presenting a simulation of how a solar eclipse occurs. Jackson, a retired NASA engineer, is hoping to help the participants better understand more about the once-in-a-lifetime event... more

The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation issued a permit approving the expansion of the Cedar Ridge landfill on Mooresville Highway. The state sent out an e-mail on Friday announcing the decision, closing a 45-day public comment period and five years of simmering tensions and hard feelings... more

Wartrace, Tenn. - An annual tradition in late August for middle Tennessee pickers and yard sale fans is the town-wide yard sale held in historic Wartrace, Tenn. This August 25 and 26, Wartrace is opening its arms to out-of-town vendors and dealers and encouraging local residents to scour their garages and attics for items to offer the hundreds of visitors who attend the event each year... more