Bethpage News

Six Tennessee schools have been selected to compete for the 2010 Blue Ribbon Schools award.

Several needy children who had not received help from local charity efforts were taken to Gallatin Wal-Mart on musicians' tour buses to pick out toys for Christmas.

County planning officials want input from residents about how they would like the future of the county to look.

When Sumner County school attendance supervisor Grace Oliver spoke up about poverty and homelessness at a board committee meeting in the spring, she set off a chain of events that rippled all the way to New York City.

The Sumner County Board of Education unexpectedly voted Tuesday night against approving a three-year contract agreement between the teacher's union and the board's negotiating team.

A proposal that could hold municipalities in Sumner County accountable for roadways annexed and not maintained was voted down 12 to 10 by county commissioners, some of whom thought the move would be political mayhem.

Shirley M. Simmons Sherlin, age 60, of Gallatin, was born March 5, 1949 and passed away Oct.

An aspiring musician did not know that his pursuit of a dream would bring a lucrative, though unrelated, enterprise and a family.

Thousands in the mid-state have lived without running water for decades. Many people in Sumner County rely on well or rain water to get them through the year.

When SuSan Small-Hammer wants a shower, she usually drives down the road to her church.

Three people were confirmed dead after an early Monday shooting and one man, Charlie Harrison of Westmoreland, who lives near the border between Macon and Sumner counties, is in custody, after being apprehended at a Bethpage convenience store.

Investigators are on the scene of a murder in Lafayette, Tennessee. At least two people have been reported dead.

Don Long will serve as the Sumner County Board of Education's new chairman after members elected him 7-3 Tuesday night.

Geraldean Clemons Perry, age 87, of Gallatin, passed away Aug. 20, 2009. Funeral services were Aug 23 at Family Heritage Funeral Home with Brother Jerry Burchett officiating.

Every parent cherishes their child's first birthday, but the Hill family has more reason than most.

Since the moment she arrived on this planet on June 21, 2008, Becca Hill has been defying the odds.

The 'L Troop' of the Tennessee National Guard's 278th Armored Calvary Regiment is being deployed again for the second time in the past five years.

At birth, Becca Hill weighed just 13 ounces. That's as much as a medium-sized apple, three and a half chocolate bars or a can of Coke.

School board members say they still need more information before deciding where to cut $7.5 million in next year's school budget.