Christiana News

One year after filing a lawsuit against the Tennessee Department of Transportation, firearms manufacturer Ronnie Barrett has indicated he may be forced to relocate his company out of state.

The Christiana Fire Department will be testing its audible warning siren at 3 p.m. Nov.

I love it when something I write strikes a nerve, and I must say that my column on shrinking products did just that.

Rutherford County's School Board voted 5-2 Thursday to rezone 95 students in the Brentmeade area from Siegel High to Oakland High next school year.

An estimated 1,000 residents bundled up Saturday braved the cold to celebrate their right to bear arms.

The Rutherford County Commission ended Thursday night's long debate about the legality of a contract with County Attorney Jim Cope by approving his reappointment effective Nov.

RAY CLARK GILBERT age 84 of Murfreesboro, TN died Thursday Oct. 8, 2009. A native of Dryden, VA, he was the son of the late Frank Clark and Thelma Cooney Gilbert.

April Lenise Gannon and Jonathan Tyler Montgomery Weaver were married Aug. 1, 2009, at Franklin Road Baptist Church in Murfreesboro.

Six county schools potentially could be affected by zoning of the district's new middle schools that will open next August.

A Murfreesboro man will serve 40 years in jail without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to killing two people and shooting and injuring a third.

Jason Porter, his girlfriend and seven children lost everything in a house fire a week ago today in Bradyville.

Vicki Petty loves teaching, and she loves Central. A 1969 graduate of old Central High School and an eighth-grade math teacher for a quarter-century at Central Middle, Petty has mixed emotions about the middle school closing its doors after this school year and turning into a magnet school, but she also sees the change as a natural progression.

Seven inches of rain fell in Christiana over a 24-hour period causing major floods in the Rutherford County town.

If Rutherford County doesn't have the best emergency responders in Tennessee, we'd like to see who's better.

Rutherford and Wilson County Emergency Management officials say they are worried about widespread flooding as rain continues to fall across Middle Tennessee today.

Emergency response officials report that a helicopter is being used to evacuate some residents from the Sledge Road area in southern Rutherford County because of flooding.

The Middle Tennessee flood watch will continue through Friday and possibly extend through Saturday and Sunday after southern Rutherford County accumulated 6 inches of rain, a National Weather Service forecaster said.

Families forced to flee their homes because of rising flood waters were busy trying to clean up Friday, even as officials warned more heavy rain this weekend could send them scurrying for safety again.

Some Rutherford County residents had to be rescued from their rooftops Thursday afternoon as rain fell and waters continued to rise.

Long Creek resident Roger Martin, his grandson Dylan in his lap sucking on a pacifier and bundled up against heavy rains, was relieved when the rescue boat they were riding in reached safety Thursday.