A two vehicle accident at the intersection of Fall River Road and the Highway 64 bypass took the life of 32 year old Samuel Zachery Lee Wells of Lawrenceburg. That accident occurred late Wednesday evening.

The South-Central Human Resource Agency will distribute USDA commodities this month in Lawrence County. Commodities will be distributed today Thursday, September 18th, at the First Baptist Church on Springer Road in Lawrenceburg. Distribution will be from 2:00 to 3:30 today. Those receiving aid from one of the following programs are eligible: SNAP, Families First, SSI, LIHEAP, or proof of residency in public housing.

Threatening phone calls to the crisis hotline were received by the Central Alabama Veterans Medical Center in Montgomery on Wednesday, September 18, at around 10:30 a.m. Special Agents from the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency responded to help with the lockout and suspect search. After more research, Michael Barnett, 61, was taken into custody at his Camp Hill home. Barnett faced charges related to […]

New legislation in Tennessee to safeguard abuse victims may save lives. Crime victims may suffer fatal outcomes as a result of their mistreatment. For this reason, Tennessee's laws must shield victims and hold perpetrators accountable. Regretfully, Tennessee has ranked first in the nation for years in terms of domestic violence overall and, more especially, fatalities resulting from it. Domestic abuse affects thousands of people in Tennessee and will continue to […]

Tennessee has the seventh-highest traffic fatality rate in the country, with 2.59 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles of travel on non-interstate, rural roads in 2022, almost twice as high as the state's other highways. In 2022, there were 459 fatalities on rural, non-interstate roads in Tennessee. Roads in rural areas are more likely to have steep slopes, narrow lanes, few shoulders, abrupt curves, exposed hazards, pavement drop-offs, and few […]