Cookeville News

Car burglars are having an easy time time swiping valuables as people continue to leave their vehicles unlocked.

Bob Tarter of the Natural History Educational Company of the Midsouth introduces students at Northeast Elementary School to a red kangaroo during a recent school-wide positive behavior event.

What's up with the water bills? That's what customers of the Cookeville Boat Dock Utility District wanted to find out at last night's CBDU Board meeting.

Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, at Austin & Bell Funeral Home in Pleasant View with Brother Gene Parton officiating.

A masked man with a gun robbed a store yesterday, police said. It happened about 1 p.m. at the Freedom Tobacco Store at 932 E. 10th Street, and the robber made off with cigarettes and an undisclosed amount of cash, said Cookeville Police Major Nathan Honeycutt.

Al Bertram and his wife Judy have spent quite a bit of time hunting for pennies lately.

She was expecting a refund on her income taxes of over $4,000 this year. But an identity thief beat a Cookeville woman to it, police said.

Friends of Genesis House are raising funds and looking forward to having a ball while doing so.

There has been plenty of sunshine today in the Upper Cumberland. Drivers on Jefferson Ave.

A resident of Green Acres taking his pet dog outside on Saturday evening met a coyote just outside his back door.

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. - Cookeville, the site of the TSSAA football championship games, is gearing up to host more sporting events.

City of Cookeville employees who also own a separate business could soon no longer be in violation of the City's charter should the City choose to use an employee's business for services.

A masked man with a gun robbed a store yesterday, police said. It happened about 1 p.m. at the Freedom Tobacco Store at 932 E. 10th Street, and the robber made off with cigarettes and an undisclosed amount of cash, said Cookeville Police Major Nathan Honeycutt.

A man who was knocking on doors at 2 a.m. trying to sell tools got arrested last week, but it was for a previous charge.

A resident of Green Acres taking his pet dog outside on Saturday evening met a coyote just outside his back door.

Where can you go this Saturday night in Cookeville for a reception, a terrific meal, a couple of very interesting speakers and musical entertainment, all done in the cultural theme of a fascinating European country for just 25 bucks? That's the question Rotarians from the Cookeville Breakfast Club are answering as they offer tickets to the annual ... (more)

Every year the Pink Ribbon of Hope Gala, an annual event with the proceeds to benefit the CRMC Foundation, asks businesses and individuals to donate several items to their live and silent auction to raise funds to provide mammograms and additional healthcare to women in the Upper Cumberland who are uninsured or underinsured.

The most common reason people don't get their female cat spayed is "i don't have that kind of money!". Yes, it can get expensive to have a pet.

Participants will learn the basics of basket weaving, with the opportunity to weave a small, woven-bottom Williamsburg basket on Friday evening and a larger wooden-bottom Williamsburg basket on Saturday morning.

Some thieves don't bother to break in, but just snatch something from the carport or porch of a residence.