Luttrell News

While leaders in suburban cities talk of setting up their own school systems, Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell said Saturday he's not sure those municipal districts would have a claim on the countywide funds that are doled out for education based on average daily attendance.

Shelby County Commissioners approved Friday, Feb. 10, a resolution authorizing Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell to negotiate with the countywide school board on the terms of a transfer of school buildings in the event suburban municipal school districts are formed.

State Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris said this afternoon that he will withdraw the two controversial annexation bills after the state attorney general opined today that both are likely unconstitutional because they would apply only in Shelby County.

A resolution that would involve Shelby County government along with the countywide school board in any transfer of school buildings to another school district surfaced Monday, Feb.

Investigators with the Grainger County Sheriff's Office continue to try to piece together what happened to a man and a woman who ended up in the Holston River early Monday morning.

According to a release from the sheriff, when officers entered the home, one of the suspects, 33-year-old Krystal Lynn Holbert, ran to the bathroom and attempted to flush the meth-making materials down the toilet.