Decherd News

The Estill Springs City Council hired Allen Rhodes to the position of police chief during its meeting Wednesday, Sept.

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As the buyout deadline passed on Friday, September 12, the company declined to say how many of the 6,600 workers at two Tennessee plants have taken the buyout, saying that the paperwork was still being ...

Friday was the last day for several longtime Nissan employees to make a decision about taking the buyout offer.

With 23 years on the job at Nissan's assembly plant, Chip McGee thinks it might be a good time to call it quits, now that the automaker is offering a buyout plan that would give him $125,000 to go away.

DREMC photo Receiving final instructions before heading to Franklinton, La., to assist Washington / St.

Mrs. Holt treats several disorders throughout the course of a week. She specializes in assisting patients diagnosed with speech-language delays, dysphagia, dysarthria, voice disorders, apraxia, stroke and brain ...

A task force that targets online sexual predators has made two arrests recently in Dalton... Both men are from Tennessee.

Nissan's promise to "go green" is coming to fruition. Just last month the Renault-Nissan Alliance announced that Nissan and the State of Tennessee would partner together with the Tennessee Valley Authority and ...

Girls' fast pitch softball tryouts for "The Blast" of Franklin County will be held Saturday, Aug.

Earlier this year, Drew Lerner, Senior Agricultural Meteorologist for World Weather, Inc., made his weather predictions for the year at the annual Middle Tennessee Grain Conference.

Despite Air Force determination to close Morris Ferry Dock as of Sept. 30, area residents are marshalling whatever support they can to keep the half-century landmark in business.

As many employers have done in the past, Nissan is willing to spend an exorbitant amount of money to relieve its company of now unneeded workers.

Nissan Motor Co.'s second-quarter earnings suffered due to slower sales in the United States, the weak dollar and declining resale value of leased vehicles -- factors that combined to cause the company's net ...

By Wednesday afternoon, two wives of Nissan employees had not had a chance to discuss with their husbands the newest round of buyouts the company announced earlier in the day.

Nissan's announcement Wednesday that it will buy out 1,200 jobs at its Smyrna and Decherd plants deals Rutherford County an economic blow.

Michael Dororre, 26, was shot in the facial area and has a bullet lodged in his neck, police said.

Ten Franklin County 4-H members well represented Franklin County with their participation in the recent University of Tennessee 4-H and FFA Central Region and State beef exposition.

Catholic priest and former Trappist monk, the Rev. William M. Nolan, died July 4 at a Smyrna nursing home.

Before landing Volkswagen's new U.S. assembly plant for Chattanooga on Tuesday, Tennessee had attracted two auto assembly plants, beginning with Nissan's Smyrna facility in 1983, followed by General Motors ...