South Pittsburg News

Comfort can be found in many foods, but one comfort food that is undeniably Southern is cornbread.

Submitted by Collins Parker on October 9, 2009 - 7:59pm. BONUS Video Touchdown Friday Night Comments Below: 0 Our Friday Night Tailgate took us to Boyd Buchanan this week for their game with South Pittsburg.

An escapee from the DeKalb County Jail here Sunday was captured about 8 a.m. today., according to a Sheriff's Department spokeswoman.

Area law enforcement agencies are looking for a DeKalb County Jail inmate who escaped Sunday morning by climbing a 14-foot high security fence topped with razor fencing.

A South Pittsburg man has been charged with fatally shooting a man in the back during an argument over the cost of car parts.

For South Pittsburg police searching for a murder weapon is out of the ordinary.

A South Pittsburg, Tenn., man was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon in the 100 block of Oak Street, according to police.

Submitted by Amanda Odom on September 8, 2009 - 10:01pm. Marion County News A A A A A homicide in South Pittsburg shocks a small neighborhood.

Submitted by Amanda Odom on September 7, 2009 - 11:39pm. Education What's Right with Our Schools Marion County News A A A A A new program hopes to help elementary students with reading.

Josh Dobson doesn't like the word "abandoned." "To me that's a definite wrong word," said the young developer in a telephone interview last week.

A Government-run insurance program. The Government rationing care, telling you which doctor to use.

Paid fire fighters have gone up in smoke in South Pittsburg. This comes after the city laid off four full time fire fighters, including the chief, who also worked as fire and police dispatchers.

A teenager is dead after an accident in Marion County. Dispatchers with the Tennessee Highway Patrol tell us 18-year-old Hannah Newton of South Pittsburg was traveling along Orme Road yesterday morning around 3 o'clock central time.

There's something special about small town football in the state of Tennessee. Then there's something special about competing for state championships at a school that has around 230 students in a town of just over 3,000 people.

I had the pleasure of going on the Veterans Thunder Motorcycle Run last Saturday.

Everyone needs a hero. For one Vietnam veteran that hero is Ron Dyer, president and founding member of the Cumberland County Vietnam Veterans chapter.

Buffalo Chicken Cornbread with Blue Cheese Salad earned the top honors in the 2009 Martha White National Cornbread Cook-Off held in South Pittsburg, Tenn.

The band Crossfire played at The Tin Cup last weekend, so we ventured out to take a listen and have one of those great French Dip sandwiches they serve there.

Jessica Brooke McMillan and Michael Edward Rollins announce their engagement and upcoming wedding on July 25, 2009.

A man police say robbed a bank this morning -- then caused an manhunt through South Pittsburg -- is now behind bars.