Lawrence County News

Both Riverdale and Siegel have postponed their Region 4-AAA soccer semifinals scheduled for tonight.

Fisheries biologists from Region I of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency were stunned Wednesday during an annual electro-shock survey on a West Tennessee Agency fishing lake.

A man living near the Alabama state line has been charged with abusing his 4-month-old son.

PROBLEM: Jack Collins, a resident on Harding Road Court,says drivers take the wrong leg at the split for highways 70 and 100 south of Belle Meade and then pull into his street, a cul-de-sac, and turn around.

A man accused of impersonating a pastor in order to get money from people has been arrested in Lawrence County.

Someone removed several headstones from a historic cemetery in Lawrence County. It happened sometime Saturday at the McCracken Tidwell Cemetery in Leoma.

Rain moving through middle Tennessee is causing more problems with high water. Wayne County and Lawrence County schools are both closed Wednesday because of water covering some of the roads.

Lawrence County was one of the first in the mid-state area to be pelted by the downpour.

Lawrence County Schools announced Thursday morning that they will be closing all their schools early due to weather.

Eighteen families were evacuated in Rutherford County because of persistent rain that had cows wading in water almost up to their neck.

Lawrence County Schools closed today at noon due to widespread flooding. David Brown, supervisor of transportation for the school system, said he made the call to close at 10:30 a.m. after his crews reported that several roads were covered in water.

A 26-year-old Florence man is dead after falling about 70 feet off a bluff near the Alabama-Tennessee state line, authorities said.

A Florence woman said she nearly grabbed her boyfriend's hand as he slipped on a bluff in Tennessee and fell some 70 feet to his death.

A northwest Alabama man is dead after falling about 70 feet off a bluff near the Alabama-Tennessee state line.

Lawrence County officers solved a burglary crime from last year. A DNA search led officers to 53 year old Gary Adams.

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

Video captured by a concerned neighbor has prompted an investigation into possible animal abuse in Lawrence County.

A young boy has been found hanged in a Lawrence County dairy barn. The Daily Herald in Columbia said the victim was identified as 2-year-old Danny Miller.

Police said an accident on Tuesday morning resulted in the death of an Amish child in Lawrence County.

A 2-year-old Middle Tennessee boy has died in a barn accident when he was strangled by twine.