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BREAKING NEWS: Highway 109 closed at Cumberland River

A stretch of Highway 109 at the Cumberland River is closed until about 4:15 p.m. According to Gallatin police, a crane working on the bridge fell onto a vehicle, but no one was injured.

Immigrants, co-workers become U.S. citizens

Wilson County Motors recently moved from West Main Street to South Hartmann Drive in Lebanon, but for two employees that journey was microscopic in scale compared to the journey from their home countries. Simon Jones and Louis Brenkman came from two different parts of the world for t...

UPDATE: Severe thunderstorm warning extended

The National Weather Service extended a severe thunderstorm warning for north-central Wilson and western Trousdale counties until 2 p.m. Forecasters are tracking a severe thunderstorm capable of producing quarter-size haild and damaging winds in exess of 60 mph. The storm is moving northea...

Get to know Fiddlers Grove: The Cartmell Cabin

The Cartmell Cabin was the first building acquired for Fiddlers Grove. It was saved just before land was cleared for the new industrial park adjacent to Interstate 40 in Lebanon. The cabin is a one-room structure of hand-hewn logs. The Cartmell family built the cabi...

Street to be closed for paving

Castle Heights Ave. N. will be closed Wednesday from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. for asphalt repairs, according to Lebanon officials. Officials said repairs would be made Thursday should inclement weather interfere with Wednesday work.

Police nab suspected burglar

An alert resident helped Lebanon police nab a suspected burglar Saturday. Lebanon police and Tennessee Highway Patrol responded to Pennsylvania Avenue at around 1:30 a.m. Saturday after a caller reported suspicious men in the area. On arrival, officers found Stephen Garland, 23, of ...

Developers go green

A Wilson County official is taking a key role in a historic project for Metro Nashville. The Woodbury Planned Unit Development (PUD) Phase II in Bellevue, Tenn., is the first subdivision designed under Metro Nashville’s new Low Impact Design Manual, Volume 5, of their stormwater mana...

Three cases of rabies in Wilson County this year

Thus far in 2013, there are three documented cases of rabies in Wilson County. Those cases were a horse, a dog and a skunk, according to Woody McMillin, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Health Department. Rabies is a preventable viral disease of mammals most often transmitted through the b...

Lebanon man charged in cold-case killing

A Lebanon man awaits arraignment in connection with a 16-year-old murder in Davidson County. Julian D. Clemmons, 37, of Lebanon, is accused of killing 18-year-old Daniel L. Peak on Forest Ridge Way in Hermitage during the early-morning hours of March 15, 1997. According to Nashville...

Most Wanted and Sheriff's Reports for May, 20, 2013

Editor’s Note: The following are suspects booked into the Wilson County Jail during the specified time frame. All persons charged are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. March 6 Stevie Wayne Tomlinson, 42, of Lebanon, was charged with non...