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FIRE DESTROYS PLEASANT SHADE RESIDENCE A house and its contents were destroyed by fire in the Pleasant Shade community, Monday afternoon. An emergency personnel volunteer was traveling along Pleasant Shade Highway (Highway 80) and reported the house was fully engulfed. Pleasant Shade, Central District and Defeated firemen were dispatched to the blaze. Firemen had to…

MORE SUSPECTS INDICTED IN MURDER Four people have now been indicted for first degree murder in the April death of a South Carthage man. In addition, a fifth person has been indicted on a lessor charge in the case. In the latest developments in the case, evidence was presented to the grand jury by the…

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MARKET FEST SATURDAY A new event will be taking place Saturday in Carthage. Carthage Market Fest will be held at the walking track on Industrial Drive across from the city park. The event will feature crafts, yard sale items, music, clothes, jewelry and food. Market-Fest is being patterned as a festive flea market and will…

TWO CHARGED WITH ABUSE OF CORPSE Man Died In Davidson County Nineteen-year-old Cameron Wilson died on Hobson Pike in Davidson County in June, investigators say. The Smyrna resident’s body was discovered by a fisherman beside the railroad tracks off Sebowisha Lane on June 9, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI). Wilson is believed…

WILBURN INDUCTED INTO HALL OF FAME A Smith County native was recently inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Association (SGMA) Hall of Fame. The late Jackie Wilburn, a well-known southern gospel music singer, radio host and pastor was inducted into the SGMA Hall of Fame in September. During his career as a singer, Wilburn was…

SEPARATE SHERIFF’S DEPT. INVESTIGATION LEADS TO METH/COCAINE/HEROIN Three people have been arrested in two cases where sheriff’s department officers located methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin. The most recent incident came Sunday night when canine officers Sgt. Junior Fields and Sgt. Ridge Long and deputies Terrence Adams, Layne Silcox and Ray Biggs went to a residence located…

LIST OF HALLOWEEN ACTIVES/EVENTS GROWS The list of public events and activities taking place for Halloween (October 31) continues to grow. •A pre-Halloween event will take place Saturday at Smith County High School. The high school’s band is having a showing of the movie “Hocus Pocus” in the school’s auditorium at 2 p.m. The movie…

ENGINEERS DISCUSS PROPOSED GORDONSVILLE EXIT CHANGES The Tennessee Department of Transportation continues to study plans to modify the Gordonsville Exit (Exit 258) on Interstate 40. State transportation department engineers have devised a new plan to modify the intersection in four stages to ease traffic congestion. Basically, the four phases would include adding traffic lights on…

ARRESTS EXPECTED IN METH RING Over 2lbs Found At One Location In County Arrests are anticipated in what is being called the largest seizure of methamphetamine in the county’s history. The discovery was made public on the Fifteenth Judicial District Drug Task Force’s Facebook page with limited details. According to the post, the discovery was…