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Mom receives Southern hospitality with child safety seat

Sep 21, 2019 at 08:00 am by Lisa Marchesoni

One Colorado mother who just moved to Tennessee received Southern hospitality when a school resource officer and his wife donated a child safety seat for her 4-year-old child..... Read More
Michael Philpott receives STARS Award

Michael Philpott receives STARS Award for saving life of pickle ball player

Sep 20, 2019 at 10:00 am by Voice Wire

Murfreesboro Parks & Rec Department employee Michael Philpott has been named STARS award recipient for September. Philpott was honored prior to the Murfreesboro City Counc.... Read More
Murfreesboro Fire and Rescue Department

2 cats seen running from the burning home on Boyd Drive

Sep 19, 2019 at 02:55 pm by Voice Wire

Two Murfreesboro families are displaced after fire destroyed one home and spread to a neighboring home on Boyd Drive Thursday morning.  Murfreesboro Fire Rescue Departme.... Read More
child seat safety

County Traffic Task Force focuses on child seat safety this week

Sep 19, 2019 at 07:00 am by Lisa Marchesoni

One child died in a traffic crash last year because of not being properly restrained in a child safety seat, said Rutherford County Sheriff’s Sgt. Michael Rodgers. "Dep.... Read More
Murfreesboro issues burn ban

Smyrna joins Murfreesboro, Rutherford County in issuing a burn ban

Sep 18, 2019 at 08:57 am by Voice Wire

Don't burn anything in Murfreesboro  Effective immediately, Murfreesboro Fire Rescue Department's Fire Marshal Carl Peas has placed a mandatory ban on burning in the cit.... Read More
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Vice President Al Gore Jr. at MTSU

4 things you should know about Albert Gore Sr.

Sep 17, 2019 at 01:00 pm by Michelle Willard 2

In today's political landscape, the South is seen as a bastion of conservatives, but that hasn't always been the case. One of the most progressive politicians the South has e.... Read More
Child Passenger Safety Technician Instructor of the Year

Rutherford Sheriff's employee earns Child Passenger Safety Technician Instructor of the Year

Sep 14, 2019 at 08:00 am by Lisa Marchesoni

Rutherford County Sheriff Office’s employee Raymond Shew remembers when his children were infants and were using cars seats. He read the manual about child passenger sa.... Read More
Rutherford County Sheriff's Office's new Dodge Challenger

Rutherford Sheriff's Office wins new Dodge Charger

Sep 13, 2019 at 10:00 am by Lisa Marchesoni

A fully-equipped Dodge Charger joined the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office fleet after Deputy Chief Egon Grissom won the car at the annual Tennessee LifeSavers Confere.... Read More

First Tennessee Banking Executive Yolanda Greene named 2019 Volunteer of the Year

Sep 12, 2019 at 09:00 am by Grace Austin

United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties has presented banking executive Yolanda Greene with the 2019 Carl Quakenbush Volunteer of the Year Award.  Greene is Ru.... Read More
Rutherford County Sheriff's Office's annual 9/11 Remembrance ceremony

World War II Navy medic described Battle of Omaha Beach

Sep 12, 2019 at 08:02 am by Lisa Marchesoni 2

U.S. Navy medic Bill Allen sat in a truck with two soldiers on the bow of the LST-523 ship and listened to gunfire just before the vessel was destroyed June 6, 1944, on Omaha.... Read More

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