Ripley News

A Ripley man facing a first-degree murder trial stopped it moments before opening statements were to be made by pleading guilty to a lesser charge.

A Ripley man will serve 40 years in prison for second-degree murder after pleading guilty moments before his trial for a 2003 homicide was scheduled to begin today.

Tennessee's Republican House speaker is describing a state spending plan headed for a full floor vote as a "compassionate budget" because it doesn't include some of the deeper cuts proposed in the Senate Republican version.

The House has passed a bill that includes imposing a privilege tax on NBA and NHL players in Tennessee and largely ending a tax break for family-owned commercial rental properties.

Two people in Dyer County have been charged in separate cases with TennCare fraud.

A version of the state budget advancing in the House includes issuing bonds for bridge projects and higher education buildings and protecting most state employees from layoffs until April of next year.

A Dyer County grand jury issued 64 indictments Monday, June 8, for charges that included attempted first-degree murder, robbery, burglary, drug possession and other offenses.

Ripley High School principal Joe Bridges said he interviewed only one candidate for the boys' basketball head coaching position.

Three Ripley men charged in the shooting death of the son of the Haywood County sheriff pleaded guilty to lesser charges Monday.

When a metal recycler north of Memphis, Tenn., inadvertently mixed radioactive material into a new batch of metal in 1997, employees at the facility didn't know about it for three days, state documents show.

The National Weather Service has issued a significant weather alert for west central Crockett County and northwestern Haywood County.

Mike Freeman, a recipient of services through the Tennessee Family Support Program, talks with Local 6's Jennifer Horbelt about the possibility that the program may disappear after steep budget cuts.

Southwestern Dyer County and north-central Lauderdale County are under a tornado warning until 6:30 p.m. today.

Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ, 146 Stoddert, Jackson, will be having a gospel singing at 6 p.m. today.

A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for Haywood County until 6:15 p.m. today, according to the National Weather Service in Memphis.

Gov. Phil Bredesen is offering a $10,000 reward for information related to an unsolved homicide case in Gates that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has been working with local law enforcement agencies for nearly a week, according to a TBI news release.

State Reps. Craig Fitzhugh, D-Ripley, and Judy Barker, D-Union City, last week announced their support of the Tennessee Department of Transportation's Proposed Projects List for Dyer, Lake, Lauderdale, Crockett and Obion counties.

Tim Sneed of Tiptonville, a 1977 graduate of Lake County High School, was part of Barack Obamaa s first foreign trip.

A 43-year-old man was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for selling less than half a gram of cocaine.

Higher tuition. Reduced faculty. Fewer programs. These are some of the measures being considered as Tennessee's colleges and universities try to cut as much as $180 million over the next two years in the face of unprecedented economic challenges.