Franklin News Archives

FRANKLIN - Franklin Police made three DUI arrests over the weekend even as the agency gears up to fight drunk driving this upcoming holiday weekend.

All Williamson County Parks and Recreation Department facilities, including outdoor pools, will be closed July 3 to observe Independence Day.

In the 51 years of auto racing at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds there has never been a season when a driver from Williamson County did not finish in the top five in points in at least one division.

The Brentwood Board of Commissioners had a lot on its agenda Monday night, but moved swiftly, swearing in new City Judge Laurie Jewett as well as chugging through three public hearings.

It's white, shaped like a soap bubble and reaches a whopping 25 mph at top speed.

In Dyer County Circuit Court on April 13-14: * Darius Antwon Brown, 17, Rivers Street, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder.

Franklin High School Principal Willie Dickerson is happy the school is on Newsweek's list of the nation's top 1,500 high schools, but she thinks the magazine left out a factor that would have given the school a higher ranking.

Two women are accused of impaired driving and causing crashes. On Sunday, officers responded to the Goose Creek Bypass exit off Interstate 65 for a crash involving two cars.

A Franklin man is facing charges after he tried to get away from police. An officer saw Morgan Luck's vehicle drive up on a curb on Carothers Parkway early Sunday morning.

Pistol maker Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. is reporting fourth-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations, sending shares up nearly 12 percent in aftermarket trading.

My wife and I dropped the kids off at summer camp in Arkansas and then spent a week eating our way through Tennessee .

Modern impressionist Julian Wayne Hagan's paintings will be featured in the Midsummer's Night Artisan Fest 6-9 p.m. Friday at 4204 Pete's Place in Franklin.

Using shovels, brushes and dirt sifters, the partial skeleton of an unknown Civil War solider was exhumed Monday from his longtime burial plot along Columbia Avenue by a team of archaeologists.

FRANKLIN, Tenn.- A new museum in Franklin is showing off never-seen-before photographs, costumes, and tour memorabilia from the Judds.

Music helps the blackberries grow. Carol Warren of Boyd Mill Farm really believes that to be true.

A home in the Green Valley subdivision was condemned after an out-of-control dump truck loaded with dirt smashed through it.

School's out for summer. Gas prices are rising again, and the economic downturn is still looming above everyone's heads, even in Williamson County, one of the wealthiest in the nation.