Union City News

Red Howe, Rick Melton and the Howe & Melton team started a new chapter on Nov. 1 when it merged with Alexander Thompson Arnold CPAs, headquartered in Union City.

The first freezing weather of autumn is expected over a broad swath of western and central Tennessee.

An investigation into the weekend loss of two major businesses in Troy - E.W. James Supermarket and Dollar General Store - to a fire of unknown origins continues.

Two South Fulton men and one Union City man are behind bars, following what Union City Police believed to be suspicious drug activity, at the Obion County Co-ops bulk fertilizer plant at 800 Mount Zion Rd, Nov.

Fire officials are investigating a blaze that destroyed two businesses in northwest Tennessee and temporarily trapped some people.

Many western Kentucky farmers are trying to harvest soybeans before their fields flood.

Bill Haslam, Knoxville mayor and candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, will visit Lake County on Thursday, Oct.

Three of nine persons accused of establishing a methamphetamine market in Obion County were sentenced last week in U.S. District Court in Jackson.

Police in Union City are searching for the man responsible for an early morning assault and robbery.

Tennessee police officers now have more leeway to conduct warrantless searches of the 61,000 Tennesseans on probation or parole, attorneys say.

This weekend, members of the community will walk to help Mid-South families struggling with unspeakable pain.

Proponents of a planned river port in northwest Tennessee hope to hear by early 2010 whether their project is getting a federal grant.

Tennessee police say an 18-year-old walk-on punter at the University of Southern Mississippi committed suicide.

According to Union City police, David Cranford, 45, of South Fulton, was pronounced dead at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital at approximately 11:45 a.m. Police have now charged Rollie Edmiaston Jr., 34, Sean Woodruff, 31, and his brother Jeff Woodruff, 26, all of Union City, with second degree murder and aggravated assault.

Southern Miss officials say walk-on punter Peter Wilkes has been killed in an accident involving a gun.

Hospital personnel now classify him as extremely critical. Union City police have said additional charges could be filed against the three men accused in the beating.

Witnesses told investigators, the 45-year-old man fought with three other men who had already left the Pop a Top Bar.

TROY, Tenn. - A couple hundred Trojans watched from the sidelines today as members of the 101st Airborne Division air assaulted into their town.

The arrival of about 150 soldiers from Fort Campbell on Wednesday became somewhat of a spectacle for this rural northwest Tennessee town of only 1,200. The soldiers assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team and 101st Combat Aviation Brigade used Troy, located about 10 miles from Union City, as a training site.

It was a training exercise for the 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell.