A suspect who apparently burned $10,000 worth of personal property and filed a false report was charged Friday by the Rutherford County Fire Marshal’s Office investigators. Marcus Anthony Ellis, 46, of McNair Ave. in Smyrna was charged with felony setting fire to personal property and felony filing a false report to an officer, said Fire…
Director of Schools has named Denielle Fuller the new principal of Rock Springs Elementary School, and he has named Samantha Wagner the first principal of the new Simon Springs Community School, both in LaVergne. Fuller succeeds longtime principal Stephen Lewis, who plans to retire at the end of the current school year. “Ms. Fuller is…
Beasie Rd Extension (River Rock Blvd just north of Racquet Club Dr) Expected Lane Closures: Monday Through Friday: Riverrock Blvd will be reduced to one-lane flagging operation intermittently at Beasie Rd for roadway widening work. Road and bridge construction work over Stones River Greenway continues. The greenway trail will be closed around the existing Beasie…
Middle Tennessee Electric (MTE) advises caution for Rutherford County motorists traveling eastbound and westbound on I-24 between Old Hickory Boulevard and Almaville Road this Sunday, April 21. Rolling roadblocks will begin at 6 a.m. that morning as MTE and its contractors work on electrical lines across the interstate. The work is estimated to be completed…
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Detectives are actively searching for two individuals, a man, and a woman, for questioning in connection with three shoplifting incidents that occurred on April 11, 2024. The businesses targeted in these thefts include Bed & Body Works, which suffered two separate incidents minutes apart, and Sephora. Bed & Body Works was victimized twice in a…
Middle Tennessee State University’s School of Journalism and Strategic Media is celebrating its 50th year of teaching students reporting, storytelling, breaking news and everything in between. Approved in 1972, the program began when Ed Kimbrell started the Department of Mass Communications, which included sequences in advertising and public relations, news-editorial, graphics and photography, and broadcasting….
The United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties is gearing up for its annual signature fundraising event, Red, White, and Bayou. This year’s event will take place on May 3rd, 2024, at Saddle Woods Farm. This year’s event is chaired by Tab and Layne Talbott, long-time supporters of the United Way Tab is a founding…
Frank Reeks Durden, Jr. age 60 of LaVergne, Tennessee died Thursday, April 11, 2024. He was a native of Monroe, Louisiana and was the son of the late Frank Durden, Sr. and Pauline Fowler Durden. Survivors include his wife of twenty-six years, Carol; a sister, Wanda Grimes and husband Steve; nephews, Doug and Daniel Grimes; a…
Ed Weckwert was born on February 18, 1939, in Detroit, MI to Edward and Lucille Weckwert. He died in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on April 14, 2024, after a brief illness. Ed attended Pershing High School, Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky and worked as a teacher in the Warren Consolidated School District for nearly 35 years….