Fayette County News

Memphians heading to the Tennessee-Memphis football game in Knoxville tonight and Saturday be warned: traffic on Interstate 40 in Fayette County will be reduced to one lane in both directions again this weekend as work to repair five bridges continues.

Warren Scoville, of London, has taken over as defense attorney for former state Rep.

Containers and trailers are transferred between trucks and trains at a Norfolk Southern intermodal hub.

Memphis mayoral special election results Wharton, 65,491 votes. Lowery, 19,625. Chumney, 10,857. Carpenter, 5,181. Lawler, 4,044. Whalum, 2,094 Developer William Adair plans to sink an intermodal rail terminal next door to the residential community he plans for a former ranch in Fayette County.

Parents in Fayette County are upset with officials at Fayette County Schools because they say they were never notified after a school bus crash near Oakland last week.

NASHVILLE - Travelers on Interstate 40 in West Tennessee could find slow going in a couple of spots over the weekend.

NASHVILLE - A comprehensive Web site focusing on the history and culture of the people of Tennessee, www.tn4me.org, is scheduled to go live Oct.

According the Fayette County, TN Sherriff's Office, a school bus was involved in a single vehicle crash late this afternoon.

" Ten people suffered minor injuries in a school bus accident late Tuesday afternoon near Oakland.

By Jody Callahan , Memphis Commercial Appeal Tuesday, October 6, 2009 A Fayette County school bus was involved in an accident this afternoon near Oakland, slightly injuring 11 children.

A state panel cleared the way Tuesday to begin purchasing as much as $40.3 million worth of land in West Tennessee for a megasite industrial development.

Residents in the Fayette county town of Oakland are unhappy about new a Tennessee Highway Patrol substation and driver testing center set to be built along Highway 64.

They came by bus and car loads. Supporters brought banners that read: JOBS YES! The opposition brought their arguments as to why the state should not provide $40 million in funding for a nearly 1,700-acre area megasite located in Haywood County.

About 3,800 acres in Haywood County will be needed for a megasite industrial park, according to a plan released Monday by the state Department of Economic and Community Development.

Candidates for Memphis mayor will face off tonight in a debate sponsored by WREG-TV Channel 3 and The Commercial Appeal.

Behind the scenes of one of the state's biggest economic projects lurks a series of local, personal political fights that runs straight to the highest levels of Tennessee government.

By Kevin McKenzie , Memphis Commercial Appeal Sunday, September 20, 2009 In the first 16 days after Collierville's Lucius E. & Elsie C. Burch Jr., Library began charging nonresidents for library cards, 246 paid up.

A bridge renovation project along Interstate 40 in West Tennessee will again reduce westbound travel on the highway to one lane for about four miles over the weekend.

Local women this summer will have the option of something near unto a holy birth, delivering their babies in the former sanctuary of Oakland United Methodist Church.

Jackson-Madison County Schools Director of Operations Buddy White said the district was not selected among the applicants competing for zero percent interest loans under a stimulus initiative.