The driver of this pickup, Laura B. Thrower, 20, was airlifted from nearby Warren County Memorial Airport for injuries she received when her vehicle left Old Shelbyville Road and rolled down an embankment Saturday night. The vehicle stopped just short of plunging into a small pond.

BY DUANE SHERRILL Hazel Bain was given a car after she had hers stolen just before Christmas. A Good Samaritan who had her car stolen just before Christmas while she was delivering holiday baskets to the elderly has been helped out by another Good Samaritan who has given her a car to replace the one…

BY LIsa Hobbs LAWRENCE City residents won’t be seeing a new $700,000 firetruck with a 75-foot ladder coming from McMinnville Fire Department’s Station Two in 2008. The firetruck won’t be purchased after a grant to fund the purchase was denied. During budget talks in 2007, city officials moved forward with McMinnville Fire Chief Kevin Lawrence’s…

BY Charles W. Johnson The long-sought-after sales tax decrease on groceries has finally gone into effect. Just don’t count on significant savings. With the start of the new year, some two dozen new state laws are now active, including a reduction of sales tax on groceries from 6 to 5.5 percent. It won’t amount to…

BY DUANE SHERRILL A man who botched a drive-thru bank robbery has now been charged with the heist of another bank weeks earlier ‘ and he was fingered for the crime by his own sister. The suspect, Carl Anthony Brakeall Jr., 34, of Harrison Ferry Mountain has been indicted on the charge of aggravated robbery…