Cookeville News

Niki Payne, recovery coach with "My Recovery" at Plateau Mental Health Center in Cookeville, gets ready to chat through an online therapy program that provides peer support for recovering addicts.

One part of the project to widen South Jefferson is complete from I-40 to Hwy. 111, but funding is lacking to continue with the next steps.

The parent of a Park View Elementary student who allegedly threatened a teacher there yesterday on the last day of school received a stern warning from school officials and police.

NewsChannel 5 has learned that agents returned to the Cookeville-based agency in the past week.

With one of her best friends battling a life-threatening disease, a Putnam County native is organizing a special youth beauty pageant to raise money to help cover medical costs.

Strong spring storms rolled into the area late yesterday afternoon, leaving damage in its wake - including power outages.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation arrested 31-year-old Andrae Peter-Neil Aarons and 43-year-old Mohamed Basiro Danso on charges of trafficking a Schedule VI drug for resale between 10 and 70 pounds.

The Knoxville-based law firm Wimberly Lawson Wright Daves & Jones, P.C. announces the opening of a Chattanooga office, effective May 1. The new Wimberly Lawson office is shared with the existing Chattanooga law firm Bob E. Lype & Associates, at 6181 Vance Road, Chattanooga.

Blue skies and nice weather mean different things for different people. But for Upper Cumberland Regional Airport manager Jim Kmet, it means more airport visitors - and increased fuel sales.

A man who drew suspicion when he offered a silverware set for sale to a jewelry store here last week was later arrested on a felony fugitive warrant in connection with burglary cases in Florida, police said.

Last month, her boyfriend, Andrew Lane Depriest, was indicted for 22 counts of burglary and theft over $60,000. And this week, Deanna Herald, 31, of Summerhaven Ave., Cookeville, was arrested on a grand jury indictment of her own in connection with the same case.

When a black Cadillac ran off the road and hit a curb, a passing police officer stopped to investigate, and it wasn't long before the driver was booked into jail on several charges.

For 847 of the county's citizens, that magic time of year is beginning this week: graduation from high school.

A Spencer man was arrested at Cookeville Regional Medical Center Saturday after allegedly pulling a knife and threatening someone in a waiting room.

A man who is well known to police here got in trouble again yesterday for allegedly shoplifting with a list for items he planned to trade for drugs.

Although the Tennessee State H.O.G Rally isn't returning until 2014, the ripple effect of the 2012 rally has officially begun.

Tennessee House of Representatives Speaker Beth Harwell addresses Tennessee Tech graduates Saturday at the university's spring commencement ceremony.

A woman who embezzled over $60,000 while working at a medical clinic here will serve one year in jail.

Now that the Cookeville City Council has approved the first reading of zoning amendments regarding bus shelters, the Upper Cumberland Human Resource Agency has started the process of establishing those shelters.

Two women traveling along Interstate 40 and S. Willow Avenue on Thursday stopped and called police after seeing a man in a vehicle following them expose his private parts, police said.