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Veteran chopper pilot rebuilds a piece of his past

Pete Norman slid open the door to the hangar behind his house just outside of the Lebanon city limits. â€œThere she is,â€ he said. â€œSheâ€ is a TH-55 training helicopter. At the moment, the chopper is disassembled. The cockpit is easy to recognize, even with the windows, seats ...

Lebanon water safe, according to annual city report

As the mercury rises with the coming of summer, an ice cold glass of clean, clear water can be the perfect find. Fortunately, according to a report released by the City of Lebanon recently, local residents need only find a faucet to get some safe and clean refreshment from the summer heat. The cit...

Commanders of Class A baseball: Friendship gets payback against JCS for school's first TSSAA title

MURFREESBORO — In a huge bit of poetic justice, Friendship Christian collected its first-ever TSSAA state championship Friday when the Commander baseball team defeated Jackson Christian 13-3 at Middle Tennessee State's Reese Smith Field. The Class A baseball championship came nearly six mont...

MJHS student says racial slurs ignored by administration

A 14-year-old Mt. Juliet High School freshman says administrators at the west Wilson County high school aren't doing enough to stop racial slurs from ringing out in the halls. Amra Owens, who is black, said teachers and school administrators haven't done anything to discipline a student who called...

Father prepares extra-tall surprise for graduating daughter

Graduation Day is a time of celebration, not just for the new graduates, but for their families. And most parents show their pride in their child's accomplishment by hosting a party or buying a gift. Lebanon's Jim DiCiccio is not like most parents. His daughter, Jackie, graduated from Lebanon ...

Internet video takes on food tax

An Tennessee grassroots group is using the Internet to get out its message about what they consider unfair taxation in the state. Tennesseans for Fair Taxation posted a video parody on YouTube.com last week which depicts Tennessee Department of Revenue agents raiding grocery stores and swiping gro...

Former teacher indicted on statutory rape charges

Aggravated statutory rape and statutory rape by an authority figure have been added to the list of charges against former Walter J. Baird Middle School teacher Joseph P. Jones. New information came to light and detectives presented it to a Wilson County grand jury, according to Lebanon Police Dep...

Trooper fired for alleged on-duty romp with porn star

Background noise includes a police scanner and passing highway cars in an Internet video of a sexual encounter allegedly involving former Tennessee state trooper Randy Moss. The video was among evidence Tennessee Highway Patrol investigators considered before firing Moss late Thursday afternoon. ...

Commission vote on LSSD expansion not set in stone

In the closing moments of Monday night's regular session of the county court, District 1 Commissioner Wendell Marlowe rose. "I make a motion to oppose the expansion of the Lebanon Special School District," he said. "I want to vote against anything that will take money away from the county." Almos...

Assistant district attorney and local detective to be deployed to Iraq

Two prominent Wilson County residents left today to join Operation Iraqi Freedom. Assistant District Attorney Robert Hibbett and Lebanon Police Department Detective Nester Irizarry will spend a few weeks undergoing further training in Fort Bliss, Texas, with their Oneida-based Army National Guard ...