Hardeman County News

According to the Tennessee Department of Revenue, Samir O. Issa., 36, was arrested on Wednesday.

Sobriety Rocks, a Christian substance abuse-prevention program, will host events Tuesday and July 30 for Hardeman County students.

A fugitive accused of killing his girlfriend in Hardeman County almost five years ago is back in Tennessee and will be arraigned next week, according to the Hardeman County Sheriff's Office.

The wait is over for a West Tennessee family who has searched for five years for answers in the death of their loved one.

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

Archeologists say there are dozens if not hundreds of buried homesteads in Fayette and Shelby County, most of the time they're plowed over and destroyed.

Authorities in West Tennessee say a 13-year-old girl was killed and an 8-year-old boy injured when the all-terrain vehicle they were riding struck a mailbox.

Wednesday headlines in The Jackson Sun will include the following stories: HANDGUN CARRY PERMIT INCREASE: The statistics reveal that at this time, there is nearly a 50 percent increase in handgun carry permits in Jackson/Madison County, according to Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork.

The following closings are scheduled for the Memorial Day holiday: Madison County The Madison County Courthouse and Jackson City Hall will be closed Monday.

Barnett M. Stevens Sr. won the Bolivar mayoral race by a landslide Tuesday, according to unofficial results from the Hardeman County Election Commission.

A Hardeman County, Tennessee, teacher is charged with raping teen boys. According to the Sheriff's Office, Michael Lane Teague had inappropriate sexual contact with two students at Middleton High School.

Police are looking for a man who robbed four people at gunpoint Sunday morning in a Jackson hotel parking lot.

Gov. Phil Bredesen announced today that an aeronautics grant in the amount of $10,000 will be provided to the William L. Whitehurst Field in Hardeman County.

The Decatur County Sheriff's Department was involved in a standoff Monday in Bass Springs, said Chief Deputy Scott Cagle on Tuesday.

An off-duty sheriff's deputy found a 38-year-old Jackson man who had been missing since Monday.

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

The 2009 Tennessee 4-H Congress was held in Nashville March 29-April 1. Tennessee 4-H members in the 9th and 10th grade from all over the state come together to learn more about their state government and receive recognition for their efforts in their project work.

NASHVILLE - State Transportation officials will close a stretch of Interstate 40 just east of downtown Nashville on two weekends this month for bridge repairs.

Two Memphis health centers will receive portions of $6.5 million in stimulus grants coming to Tennessee's nonprofit health clinics to meet rising demand and create jobs.

TOONE - At the beginning of each morning, third-grade teacher Erin Piefer's students know it's reading time.