Putnam County News

For the first time, in a hushed courtroom bursting with heart-sick grief, the father of a young daughter and granddaughter gunned down unmercifully in a church parking lot faced the man who moments earlier admitted to their killings.

Police in Cookeville are reviewing surveillance photos of suspects in debit card fraud cases.

A scam artist pretending to be a funeral home employee stole blank checks and bought a min-van from a car dealership.

"My husband and I got into an argument," she said. Keith insisted that her husband is trying to get back at her because she wanted out of the marriage... WSMV, TN June 11, 2009 COOKEVILLE, Tenn.

Putnam County authorities said they have been looking into whether a would-be bank robber has struck again.

Deborah Boyd attaches a milking machine to one of her dairy cows at her farm in Parrotsville, Tenn.

A 17-month-old girl has drowned in a backyard swimming pool at her home in Baxter.

A Middle Tennessee woman is free on $5,000 bond and faces a June 15 court hearing on a charge of harassing the Republican Party headquarters in Cookeville.

A Middle Tennessee woman is free on $5,000 bond and faces a June 15 court hearing on a charge of harassing the Republican Party headquarters in Cookeville.

In Putnam County there is a fear of a massive explosion at a gas station because the gas tanks are stored above ground.

Putnam County needs to expand its jail, but it looks as though it won't be done at the current jail.

A Cookeville couple is accused of causing the kind of harm associated with shaken baby syndrome to an 8-year-old boy.

Police in Cookeville, Putnam County arrested two Avery Trace Middle School students Thursday in connection to a small explosion at the school earlier this week.

A small explosion at a Cookeville school evacuated students on Wednesday morning, according to the Herald-Citizen newspaper.

The city of Algood is without a city manager as Freddie Maxwell was reportedly voted out during an informal meeting last week.

UPDATE: 3:11 p.m. According to reports, a tornado has hit Midway in southwestern Cumberland County.

A man's job with child support services gave him access to personal information, and police said he tried to make a second career selling the identities.

The defendant who decided he didn't want to hang around long enough to learn what a jury had decided on his methamphetamine making related case is back behind bars today after being taken into custody by Putnam County authorities Wednesday afternoon.

A school janitor landed behind bars after being accused of selling drugs to an undercover cop.

A Crossville man well known to Cumberland County authorities is making a name for himself in Putnam County after being arrested twice in a short period of time - including once at the Putnam County Justice Center - for breaking into vehicles.