Whiteville News

A second arrest was made Friday in a 2007 Hardeman County shooting death. Edwin Minter, 22, of Bolivar was arrested on charges of first-degree murder, criminal intent to commit second-degree murder, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, said Hardeman County Sheriff Delphus Hicks.

A hearing was rescheduled Wednesday for a Whiteville man charged with reckless homicide last month.

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According to the Hardeman County Sheriff's Department, Edwin Jittaun Minter, 22, of Bolivar, arrived at the county jail late Friday afternoon, after being arrested in Tipton County.

Hardeman County authorities have charged a Whiteville man with first-degree murder in the 2007 shooting death of his cousin.

Someone shot and killed Kendalls Blockett, Jr, 22, at his house on Union Springs Road outside Whiteville.

A Humboldt man faces a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of another man, according to a news release from the police department.

James Massey, 58 of Whiteville faces a count of reckless homicide in connection with the October 22 crash.

Senator Tim Burchett confirms that convicted killer Letalvis Cobbins will be moved from a medium security prison to maximum security prison by Monday.

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A Tennessee Department of Transportation contract worker was flown to Regional Medical Center in Memphis early Monday morning after being hit on eastbound Interstate 40.

WHITEVILLE, Tenn. - A co-defendant convicted for his role in the torture-slayings of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom has been moved to the Hardeman County Correctional Facility to serve his life sentence, said Dorinda Carter, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Correction.

Letalvis Cobbins has been moved to his permanent prison home in Whiteville, Tennessee.

The driver service center in Savannah will be closed Monday and Tuesday as it moves to a new location.

The Tennessee Department of Corrections is cutting costs by cutting the number of inmates in state facilities.

A western Tennessee prison will stay open one year longer than planned after lawmakers found funds to extend the facility's life.

One Hardeman County family was particularly hard hit. The Shields family has lived out in Whiteville for the past 20 years and family members say they have never seen anything like the storms last night.

The Jackson Preparatory School gymnasium was filled with students talking and laughing before the 'Back to School' assembly.

Express Employment has a franchise opportunity in Jackson. The company is the nation's fourth largest staffing agency and is entirely franchise-owned, said Fred Bartliff, senior director of franchising.

A Whiteville Elementary School seventh-grader will spend 10 days in Vienna, Austria in August.