Lakeland News

Over the next five years, Shelby County Schools will likely focus on campus renovations and rezoning to balance student population in the district, rather than building new schools.

Applications are being accepted until Monday, November 16 for community leadership positions on Lakeland Boards and Commissions.

Two months after the statewide guns-in-parks law took effect, Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman says the town's Board of Mayor and Aldermen won't consider opting out of the legislation that allows handgun-carry permit holders to pack their guns in parks.

The Lakeland Tennessee Lions Club Holiday Parade is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. , Saturday, December 5, 2009.

I am currently working on a '53 Ford F-100 pickup truck. I am going to use a '79 Ford 302 engine.

The Suntrust Bank at Highway 64 and Fletcher Trace was robbed Thursday, October 22, 2009.

An Automotive Waste Collection Day is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Thursday, November 12, 2009 at the Shelby County Household Hazardous Waste Facility at 6305 Haley Road.

Despite the chilly wind, a lone angler drifts along the shore of Garner Lake near the dam Sunday afternoon.

Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton Jr. has come up with 10 appointees to a metro charter commission and has sent the names to the Shelby County Commission for approval.

Nikki Morgan of Lakeland, TN and Travis Wright of Clarksville, TN exchanged wedding vows on September 19, 2009 at 1:30 PM in Memphis, TN with the Father Ken Zelten officiating.

MEMPHIS, TN a ' Friday night, September 25, 2009, Tennessee Department of Transportation officials were working a crash on I-40E, east of Canada Road in Lakeland.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol reopened all eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 through Lakeland at 9:52 tonight.

Shelby County school board chairman David Pickler says district leaders are still strongly against single-source funding, but they're holding off on a plan to ask suburban mayors to join them in their opposition.

KEN STEORTS Position: President Company: Visible School Basics: Steorts is leading the charge for Visible School's eventual move to Downtown.

Mosquitoes have tested positive for the West Nile virus in the Lakeland area. That's zip code 38002.

A project to re-route Canada Road in Lakeland is nearly finalized, and plans are moving forward.

By Kevin McKenzie , Memphis Commercial Appeal Tuesday, September 1, 2009 Starting today, guns will be allowed in dozens of area municipal parks from Arlington to Millington.

It's listed near the top of government agendas from Washington to Arlington, Tenn., an opening as standard as reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

It was during the early 1970's that I found myself having to leave my hometown, Memphis, to follow my husband who had been offered a job with a major pharmaceutical company in New Orleans.

It was during the early 1970's that I found myself having to leave my hometown, Memphis, to follow my husband who had been offered a job with a major pharmaceutical company in New Orleans.