By LISA HOBBS The Main Street LIVE! summer concert series presented by Main Street McMinnville will kick off the summer on June 1. This series will have nine weeks of music-filled Friday nights. Taking the lead is a band who had its performance night rained out last summer but is coming back like a tidal…

By DUANE SHERRILL Saying police were so suggestive in making him the prime suspect that they influenced his positive identification by the victim, the defense for a man charged with trying to abduct a woman in front of her 10-year-old son wants her identification of him barred from evidence. The defendant, Ramon Robles, faces up…

With a theme of ‘Care you count on, people you trust,’ River Park Hospital celebrated 2007 Hospital Week May 6-12 at the facility. As one of the oldest health-care related observances, Hospital Week gives River Park employees and care providers the opportunity to celebrate the quality of their work and the importance of their careers.…

By DUANE SHERRILL A nurse assistant faces a quarter-century behind bars for allegedly molesting an incapacitated elderly woman at a nursing home in Van Buren County. The defendant, Brandon Jennings, 21, was indicted this past week by the Van Buren County grand jury and later picked up on the Class A felony at his home…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON The Warren County agriculture industry has been hit with a double whammy this year. Reeling from the combination punch of a premature blooming season followed quickly by a hard freeze, the agricultural industry didn’t have a chance to regroup before the current drought hit with little precipitation in the forecast. Dale…

Did you graduate from Centertown High School? If so, the Centertown Alumni Association needs your help. When school starts this fall Centertown students will begin classes a beautiful new school. The Centertown Alumni Association voted to have all of the past graduating classes whose pictures were hanging on the walls of the old school reframed…

By DUANE SHERRILL A rash of car burglaries in the Westwood area Sunday evening have police wondering if a serial burglar may be working the neighborhood. Three separate vehicles were broken into after 10 p.m. Sunday evening, all within a half-mile of one another in the southwestern corner of the city, leading police to suspect…

By LISA HOBBS With no objections on second reading, 13 acres on Northwood Lane designated R-3 high density residential became a part of the city. In the same meeting, McMinnville Board of Mayor and Aldermen began the process to annex an area along Nashville Highway on Highway 70 South. Much like the last annexation effort,…

By DUANE SHERRILL DENTON Police answered more calls between January and March of this year than they did in an entire year a quarter-century ago, the number of calls for service nearly doubling in the city in just three years. ‘The number of calls have been rising consistently for years, much of it for police…

By DUANE SHERRILL A woman who lied when she told police her boyfriend had abused her children was given two years probation for filing a false report. The defendant, Amanda Russell, entered a best interest plea before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to the charge of filing a false report. She was given a two-year…