Whiteville News

Senator Tim Burchett confirms that convicted killer Letalvis Cobbins will be moved from a medium security prison to maximum security prison by Monday.

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A Tennessee Department of Transportation contract worker was flown to Regional Medical Center in Memphis early Monday morning after being hit on eastbound Interstate 40.

WHITEVILLE, Tenn. - A co-defendant convicted for his role in the torture-slayings of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom has been moved to the Hardeman County Correctional Facility to serve his life sentence, said Dorinda Carter, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Correction.

Letalvis Cobbins has been moved to his permanent prison home in Whiteville, Tennessee.

The driver service center in Savannah will be closed Monday and Tuesday as it moves to a new location.

The Tennessee Department of Corrections is cutting costs by cutting the number of inmates in state facilities.

A western Tennessee prison will stay open one year longer than planned after lawmakers found funds to extend the facility's life.

One Hardeman County family was particularly hard hit. The Shields family has lived out in Whiteville for the past 20 years and family members say they have never seen anything like the storms last night.

The Jackson Preparatory School gymnasium was filled with students talking and laughing before the 'Back to School' assembly.

Express Employment has a franchise opportunity in Jackson. The company is the nation's fourth largest staffing agency and is entirely franchise-owned, said Fred Bartliff, senior director of franchising.

A Whiteville Elementary School seventh-grader will spend 10 days in Vienna, Austria in August.

The children of Herbert Wilson and Elizabeth Ann McFadden would like to invite all friends and family to our parents' 50th Anniversary reception on Sunday, June 28, 2009.

Garcia Valenzuela, 33, was arrested by Whiteville after investigators said he voluntarily stopped at a seatbelt checkpoint on Highway 64 East, Thursday.

Oakland, Powers, Somerville, Laconia, Whiteville, Bolivar- drove this route the other day, and must have seen a dozen places that looked *very* chow worthy.

The Tennessee National Guard cancelled one of its military police company's participation in a local police seat belt checkpoint a day before it was scheduled over concerns about the "perception" the public might have of the event.

The quiet drowsiness of Main Street in this small West Tennessee town expresses security and happiness.