Springfield News

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has announced a $10,000 reward from the state for information on the death of Rashaud Singletary in May 2012 in Springfield.

The Springfield Police Department is participating in a pilot program that could help the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation launch a statewide database detailing known gang members across the state.

Bishop Utley was born Nov. 2, 1946, in Robertson County to Ollie B. and Paralee Utley.

Springfield Police charged a local man with his seventh driving under the influence charge Friday after they said he nearly hit an ambulance and then smashed into a guardrail near Bill Jones Industrial Drive.

Springfield Alderman Clay Sneed suggested using unpaid furloughs as a way to make cuts in the upcoming city's budget for Fiscal 2014.

Three Springfield residents and one White House resident were among 14 facing charges stemming from the bust of an illegal gambling operation in Hendersonville on Friday, June 14, according to a Hendersonville Police Department press release.

Employer: Tommy Pinson DBA Pinson Farms - Springfield, TN. Perform all duties of Tobacco, Straw/Hay, & Row Crop Production; including fertilizing, plowing, spraying, irrigating, harvesting, & packaging; and other alternative work.

If the Springfield Board of Mayor and Aldermen doesn't raise property taxes this year, Mayor Billy Paul Carneal warned aldermen that the city's public safety could be in jeopardy.

A request for architectural fees necessary to move forward with a proposed south Springfield elementary school failed to pass at the County Budget Committee meeting Thursday, June 6. Schools Director Dan Whitlow has been asking county commissioners to approve $425,000 to pay for architectural fees necessary to begin planning the proposed south ... (more)

Gov. Bill Haslam has announced a $10,000 reward from the state for information that can help in the case of a man killed in Robertson County.

A $10,000 reward is being offered by the state of Tennessee for information on the shooting death of a 20-year-old man in Springfield last May. Rashaud Singletary was discovered with a gunshot wound to the back of the head in the 1400 block of J.K. Patterson Boulevard on May 6, 2012.

Gov. Bill Haslam has announced a $10,000 reward from the state for information that can help in the case of a man killed in Robertson County.

Fifteen residents on Curtiswood Lane in Springfield will soon be receiving a new name for their road.

The Robertson County Budget Committee voted to accept the City of Springfield's termination of its contract to be part of a consolidated dispatch, after the county received a letter requesting more than $200,000 in retroactive payments be paid to the city.

Growing up a preacher's kid in Tennessee, former Springfield resident Caleb Woodard, who has spent the past decade making a name for himself in the Washington D. C. area as a woodworking craftsman, is coming home.

Mr. Seay was born Nov. 8, 1930, in Montgomery County to the late Oliver A. and Alma Ramey Seay.

She was born on June 30, 1957, in Springfield, to the late Charles Edward McGarnett Sr. and Bobbie Jean McGarnett.

Funeral services were conducted Monday June 3 in the Oakhurst Chapel of the Robertson County Funeral Home with Bro.

A $2.2 million water tank installed to improve Springfield's water pressure has instead done the opposite, leaving more than a dozen fire hydrants with pressure so low the fire department can't use them.

Normally, we citified Bites writers don't cover much news in the hinterlands of Robertson County.