Lauderdale County News

Water splashes onto a dry soybean field in western Dyer County on Sunday as the region's near-drought conditions continue.

Bedford County's unemployment rate is up 50 percent over May of last year, according to preliminary figures released Thursday by the state's department of Labor and Workforce Development.

A defunct Halls company is not responsible for a former employee's injuries, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, June 24.

The trial between a Bogota woman and Illnois Central Railroad Co. over a train accident north of Newbern that devastated her husband's health began Monday, more than four years after the November 2003 accident ...

Ballistics tests and witness statements cleared a teen-ager of murder and attempted murder charges in Dyer County Juvenile Court.

More than 500 West Tennesseans will be out of work by the end of December after a Michigan-based manufacturer of automotive parts announced the permanent closing of one of its two Ripley manufacturing plants.

More than 500 people will lose their jobs when the Siegel-Robert Automotive South plant in West Tennessee shuts down by year's end.

Bedford County's unemployment rate for April was 5.1 percent, down 0.7 percent from March, but up 1.4 percent compared to last year, according to figures released by the Tennessee Department of Labor and ...

A Ripley High School teacher and softball coach was charged with sexual battery and statutory rape and arrested Tuesday, June 3, 2008.

' Tennesseans are encouraged to participate in a range of activities at State Natural Areas and Tennessee State Parks in celebration of National Trails Day on Saturday, June 7, 2008.

A series of fires in the Shoals has left investigators scratching their heads. Four fires were set in abandoned houses late Wednesday night in North Alabama and southern Tennessee.

An Iron City , Tenn., man has been charged with two counts of arson after he was accused of setting fires Wednesday night at vacant houses.

Dyer and Lake county rescue squad members ponder their next move at about 3 a.m. Saturday at Everett's Lake.

Tennessee's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for April 2008 was released last week at 5.4 percent, 0.1 percent lower than the March revised rate of 5.5 percent.

A man who originally received an unusually light sentence for violating the state's motor vehicle habitual offender law is now going to prison.

“This old car runs on regular gas and has only 4 cylinders”

With the average price of gas creeping up to nearly four dollars a gallon, Bartlett resident Bill Butner is going to extremes to keep his fuel expenses down. via WMC TV

“That is something of a blessing in disguise (continuing to have Hassell here)”

The Lauderdale County Board of Education voted 8-0 last Thursday to hire Lake County Director of Schools Joey Hassell as superintendent. via The Lake County Banner

The National Weather Service in Memphis has issued a flash flood warning for Madison County, southern Crockett County, Fayette County, Hardeman County, Haywood County, central Lauderdale County, southeastern ... via The Jackson Sun

“I don't think this is a capital case. It does not merit a capital indictment”

Last Updated:May 03. 2008 12:04AM Published: May 03. 2008 3:30AM ENLARGE Two Tennessee men accused of killing a Lauderdale County man during a 2007 robbery and burglary face the death penalty after being ... via Times Daily

A former Lauderdale County resident accused of slapping her young daughter numerous times in the face is in custody after hiding from authorities for more than six months. via Alabama Live