Gibson County News

The city of Milan is looking at health care proposals as rising payments have the city spending around $200,000 more for coverage than last fiscal year.

During an annual survey of the 50-bed nursing home, located at 2400 Mitchell Street, surveyors found the following violations: administration, performance improvement, nursing services, and pharmaceutical services.

Trenton Klippel, 18 was initially stopped Tuesday for speeding. The officer said when he got out of his vehicle there was a green, leafy substance on Klippel's clothing and in his teeth.

Antonious Jamal Brown was officially charged with first-degree murder in the death of Vincent Brown, whose family said the two are not related.

The commission voted 13-11 to table the motion, which would increase the county's wheel tax from $35 to $85. The proposed $50, and $25 for motorcycles, tax hike is a result of growing budgetary pressures plaguing the young fiscal year.

Kris Todd, the principal at Milan High School, said in his eleven years with the school, this is the first break-in he has seen.

Hunter Buege, 9 years old, shoots his first deer, two button bucks, Sunday morning November 1st during the 2009 Fall Juvenile Hunt.

A new traffic signal has been installed on Highway 45E at Old Median Road near Medina.

The Gibson County Commission voted 13-11 to table a resolution that would increase the area's wheel tax.

Former Medina Police Chief Jerry Morris has filed a lawsuit against the city and Medina Mayor Vance Coleman.

Law enforcement officers in Gibson County need your help to catch whomever is responsible for a rash of burglaries and vandalism at four schools since mid-October. The crimes all took place anytime from around midnight until three in the morning.

A Jackson man was taken to the hospital after he was shot in the neck and shoulders around 8:20 p.m. Wednesday evening.

Would you trade $659,000 for $5,000? We wouldn't, either. We urge Gibson County commissioners to think carefully before they do just that.

Library administrators in Gibson County are saying that the county's current budget is violating state law in regards to funding libraries.

Humboldt High School students received a reality check about drinking and driving on Friday.

A group of Gibson County churches hope to unite West Tennessee with music, motocross and fireworks.

Kimberly Rose Simpson, 39 of Humboldt was charged with arson and vandalism over $1,000. The charges stem from a fire at the Three Way Auto Repair on 22nd Avenue in Humboldt, last week.

Investigators have arrested two men they believe are connected with the early Sunday morning shooting in Gibson county.

Police have arrested a woman and a teenager in unrelated criminal cases developed from an arson fire and drug investigation, according to a news release from the Humboldt Police Department.

An early morning argument among several men Sunday led to the shooting death of Joseph H. Burnette in the back yard of his home in western Gibson County, according to the Gibson County Sheriff's Department.