Cookeville News

The Jackson Sun has won the General Excellence Award in the University of Tennessee-Tennessee Press Association State Press Awards for the fifth consecutive year, marking it as the best newspaper in its division in the state.

Officer Daniel Trivette, of the Cookeville Police Department, was on patrol when he saw Glen Whitehead, of Cookeville, lying in the grass between the apartments and the roadway, according to the police report.

The Child Support office in Cookeville has not only moved locations, but has also gotten word that they have improved their ratings with the Department of Human Services Child Support Division so much that they have been named the Most Improved Child Support Office in the State.

Stew was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up in Middle Tennessee. He currently lives in Nashville with his wife and daughter.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation obtained an indictment on Monday for a Cookeville woman accused of filing a false rape report.

Officials with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said Lacee Nicole Smith, of Cookeville, has been charged with one count of False Reporting.

Cumulus brings three new people to Iowa. Sean Elliott is the new Operations Manager and PD at KGGO.

Two men accused of six counts of aggravated robbery in connection with an incident last weekend at a residence on Chestnut Avenue in which items were taken from six people at gunpoint remain in jail.

PUTNAMa SCOUNTYa S- A Cookeville man is free today on a $75,000 bond after being arrested on seven charges yesterday, including shooting at his wife and son as they drove away.

A man wanted for robbery and kidnapping in Nashville has been arrested in Cookeville.

Officer Ryan Acuff, of the Cookeville Police Department, arrested a Cookeville man last week for an incident involving a knife at Rodeo Bob's in May. According to the police report, Officer Jimmy Blankenship was flagged down by several employees of Rodeo Bob's while he was patrolling the parking lot area there on May 30. The employee told police ... (more)

Cookeville Community Band director Robert Jager conducts the band during its rendition of "God Bless America" on Monday night at Dogwood Park.

Kevin Tarius Boone and Kalen Shelton Miller were arrested yesterday and both charged with six counts of aggravated robbery.

Samuel Sullivan is the fiddler on the roof in the play by the same name at the Cookeville Children's Theatre.

Stew was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up in Middle Tennessee. He currently lives in Nashville with his wife and daughter.

With the new Cookeville/Putnam County Animal Shelter projected to be finished by November of this year, the shelter staff and Friends of Putnam County Animals are looking to recruit volunteers to help out at the new facility when it opens.

Cookeville Police Department traffic division officers such as Maj. Mark Maxwell will be out in full force on the roads looking for impaired drivers and other traffic violators this holiday weekend.

Matthew David Brown, of Crawford, was found to be in possession of several different drugs and a handgun, resulting in an arrest last week for possession for resale and unlawful possession of a weapon.

Wendy Askins, the former director of the Upper Cumberland Development District in Cookeville, is scheduled to go on trial in federal court in December 2014.

The fifth annual Little Patriot Parade will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, July 4, for children ages birth through grade 3 to show their patriotic pride at the Courthouse Square in Cookeville.