Ripley News Archives

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.