Portland News

W.J. and Ann E. Griggs family , July 11, Gallatin Civic Center, 210 Albert Gallatin Ave., 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friends and family are invited.

While growing up in Portland, Tenn., Jim Poole enjoyed watching The World's Strongest Man competitions that came on television.

Steve Anthony Kirby, age 51, of Ashland City, Tenn., passed away peacefully on Wednesday, July 1, 2009, after a 15-month battle with ALS.

Four Middle Tennessee employers, including two automotive companies, have laid off more than 300 workers in the past few months.

The Coast Guard rescued six people from the disabled 38-foot boat Holler Back about 20 miles northeast of Ponce de Leon Inlet Saturday afternoon.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, with renewable energy provisions that allows the Investment Tax Credit to be accessible to bio-mass burning stoves, is a welcomed initiative for Danish cast-iron wood stove manufacturer Morso.

A Portland man accused in the murder of his girlfriend is behind bars in Davidson County.

The new Morso 8188 represents an exciting expansion of the 8100 series - with exclusive side windows.

Mr. and Mrs. Pat Van Dyke of Clarksville, TN announce the engagement of their son, Charles Weston Van Dyke to Jennifer Lee Griffith, daughter of Mr.

A 36-year-old Portland man is in police custody Thursday afternoon after his mother was found stabbed to death.

Police in Portland on Thursday arrested a son in the stabbing death of his mother.

A bill legalizing the release of more selenium into Tennessee streams fell one vote short of passage Wednesday amid claims that approval would mean poisoning the waters to help a coal company win a lawsuit.

A Sumner County man faces charges, for allegedly terrorizing a pizza delivery man.

A Portland man has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and false imprisonment after allegedly brandishing a gun in a failed attempt to coerce a Papa Johns delivery man to give him his pizza for free.

Dozens of people went to Sumner County Tuesday to find the bargain of a lifetime through something called the Delinquent Tax Sale.

Who better to serve as the grand marshal of Portland's Strawberry Festival parade than a woman who says she was raised in a strawberry patch? And, as the youngest of 12 children, 80-year-old Pauline Hackett had a lot of company in her parents' Portland strawberry patch.

A former Portland High school teacher said she was attacked by a student. Police do not believe Sandy Binkley's story, and she was the one charged with the crime.

Four suspects faces several charges Monday after a brutal home invasion, shooting and high speed chase that spanned two counties.

Two men are in jail and two more are in the hospital after leading police on a two-county chase early Monday morning.

Four Sumner County shooting suspects are in police custody after a high-speed chase early Monday morning.