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Felon hired for city staff

March 13, 2006 Lebanon city government has an unknown number of convicted felons as employees, including some with offenses ranging from drug charges to forgery. Some of those felons are members of Lebanon Mayor Don Fox's family, one wrinkle in a brewing controversy where Fox and the city personnel...

Osbornes convicted of abuse

March 14, 2006 After deliberating for nearly five hours Monday, a jury convicted James C. Osborne III and Christine H. Osborne of attempted aggravated child abuse and neglect, but found them both not guilty of the original charges of aggravated child abuse and neglect the state had been seeking ag...

Thompson out of Senate race

March 14, 2006 The president of a Lebanon nonprofit said Monday he will not make a bid for the State Senate's District 17 post, citing potential conflicts with newly passed ethics legislation. Eric Thompson, president of Prospect Inc., had considered a run against incumbent Republican Sen. Mae Beav...

Felon issue shocks Council

March 15, 2005 Members of the Lebanon City Council, many of them shocked to learn the city employs an unknown number of convicted felons, have taken emergency action to bring the issue in front of the full Council later this week. Ward 1 Councilor Alex Buhler began circulating a petition early Tues...

Candidates for Wilson mayor debate water authority bill

March 15, 2006 Wilson County Mayor Robert Dedman said Tuesday he is taking a "wait and see" approach to proposed legislation that would grant county lawmakers oversight of the county water and wastewater authority though his opponent for the fall endorsed the measure. Prior to the recent controvers...

Watertown sex offender indicted

March 16, 2006 A grand jury has indicted a Watertown resident on multiple counts of aggravated sexual battery after authorities learned he was allegedly sexually assaulting blind classmates of his own adopted teenage daughter, who is also blind, at the family home. Wayne Roger Rasmussen, 69, of 939...

Graduation, car show to slam city

March 17, 2006 When about 4,000 people gather at Lebanon High School in May to send off more than 300 seniors, they may be forced to contend with the gathering of thousands of other guests as well. Because of an unforeseen scheduling conflict, the Friday, May 26 LHS graduation will coincide with th...

Authorities 'take down' drug ring

March 18, 2006 NASHVILLE — An international cocaine trafficking ring with links to Mexico and Texas but operating primarily out of Lebanon to distribute hard drugs to Wilson County buyers and others across Middle Tennessee met with what federal officials called a "take down" early Friday morn...

Water utility offers 'help' and changes zoning requirements

February 17, 2006 Sharon Lister never expected to be so close to her new neighbors. But when construction began on a roughly 4,000-square-foot, two-story house just behind Lister's home in West Wilson County's Cambridge Crossing subdivision in summer 2005, she says she noticed almost immediately th...

Sheriff, jailers added to inmate lawsuit

February 20, 2006 Saying the recent criminal trial of Wilson County Jail guards "painted a very ugly picture of procedures at the jail," a U.S. District Court Judge on Thursday allowed 10 defendants, including Sheriff Terry Ashe, to face civil charges of conspiring to assault and harm at least one ...