Cookeville News

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.

Christopher Shane Campbell was arrested for the second time in the month of June on Sunday for the initiation of methamphetamine manufacture.

The Cookeville City Council is expected to vote on two ordinances at tonight's city council meeting.

This July, the Putnam County Family YMCA will be working with the Sparta White County Family YMCA to expand the Go Pink Program - formerly called the ABC Program - into the White County area.

Charles Carr was arrested yesterday on three additional charges - aggravated assault, joyriding and driving on a suspended or revoked license.

It's a situation some local hospice care volunteers would like to see less of - especially among veterans who are terminally ill - because these volunteers happen to be vets themselves and understand that for many nearing the end of their life, those dark memories can sometimes resurface.

PUTNAM COUNTYa S- As citizens bring out sparklers, bottle rockets and firecrackers for this week's Independence Day celebrations, they are being urged to remember fire safety and fireworks regulations.

"We've had more requests for information than we have had in maybe five years," James Mills, Cookeville planning director, said.

Andy Lane of Cookeville has been working with wood as long as he can remember. He started as a child, practicing whittling at family reunions, then went on to more complicated woodworking during the Boy Scouts' Pinewood Derby.