Dyersburg News

On the evening before state officials released Report Card results for school systems throughout Tennessee, Deputy Commissioner of Education Robert Greene visited Dyer County to report changes made by the state in the 11th hour that will affect this year's Report Card status for both local school systems.

A small earthquake has shaken part of West Tennessee. The U.S. Geological Survey's initial report said a quake with a magnitude of 3.3 shook the area around Dyersburg early Friday.

The restructuring of city employees following an undercover GPS investigation by Dyersburg Mayor John Holden has placed the responsibility of city's knuckleboom trucks under Solid Waste Management Superintendent John Damesworth.

The Dyersburg Police Department charged two Newbern men this week in connection with a number of storage facility burglaries.

The win qualifies him for the 2010 BFL All-American where he could ultimately win a top prize of $140,000 and a trip to the 2010 Forrest Wood Cup.

As children will be taking to the streets this Halloween, law enforcement officials are urging children and parents to exercise caution against sex offenders.

MURFREESBORO -- Dyersburg fell to Chattanooga Christian 25-8, 25-16, 25-18 in the first round of the Class AA state tournament at the Murphy Center.

Dyersburg residents who used to watch Ted Dibiase storm into the World Wrestling Federation arena as The Million Dollar Man in the 1980s and '90s may find it difficult to believe that one of wrestling's ultimate bad guys will spend two days this weekend behind the pulpit in Dyersburg.

The Highway 51 Bypass dog, now named Tag, sits at the command of his adopted mother, Ann Ramsey.

First responders secure a cervical collar to the driver of the SUV that ran off the highway, close to the Forked Deer River bridge on Highway 412.

An engaging new mural on the wall of the lunchroom met these Dyersburg Intermediate School students as they returned to school from fall break.

Life Choices of Dyersburg will host its 10th annual banquet this Thursday evening, Oct.

The columns and portico at Dyersburg Activity Center will soon be a smooth, bright white again with a recent bid awarded to Forcum Lannom to repair the cracks and apply an elastomeric coating.

Investigators in Dyersburg are trying to figure out if a man indicted for raping a woman in July is connected to other attacks.

A 23-year-old man was indicted Monday for one of three rapes reported this summer in Dyersburg.

Police in Newbern credit two alert cell phone owners for using their phones to take pictures of a lawnmower being loaded into the trunk of a car.

The dedication for a memorial to fallen Dyersburg firefighters began with a parade from the location of the old fire department at the end of Market Street to the memorial located at the front door of Fire Station No.

Officials with the city of Dyersburg were presented a check for $884,742 from the Tennessee Department of Transportation on Friday morning.

The deadline to submit photographs for the Shoot Dyer County photography contest has been extended to Monday Oct.

George Talbert Seratt, 39 of Dyersburg, was sentenced Thursday afternoon in federal court to 84 months in prison for possession of a pipe bomb, announced Lawrence Laurenzi, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, in a news release today.