Cookeville News

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.

A thief boldly drove up, hooked a boat to his truck, and stole it out of a parking lot on W. Broad Street, police said.

By AMY DAVIS PUTNAM COUNTY - His front yard was covered with "for sale" signs - but he wasn't moving from his home on Buffalo Valley Road.

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.

Kenneth Mahan, left, and Joey Bailey of Hazzard Life show off replicas of the General Lee and Dixie Jeep from the Dukes of Hazzard that will be on site at this Saturday's Hazzard Life Festival and Swap Meet from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Cookeville Auto Auction.

A woman who is accused of swapping her shoes for another pair in a store and then walking out without paying later told police that she had bought the old shoes there and they hurt her feet.

Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen lifts an Oreck vacuum cleaner over his head while Oreck founder Dave Oreck, right, looks on, during the opening of an Oreck factory in Cookeville, Tenn., in 2006.

For the fourth year in a row, the Cookeville Police Department's Police Athletic League will sponsor a bass fishing tournament to help raise funds for Mustard Seed Ranch.