A police perimeter was set up around a Clarksville hotel Wednesday afternoon amid an hours-long barricade. The Clarksville Police Department said it received a 911 call just after 1:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 2 about an unwanted guest in one of the rooms at Country Inn & Suites in the 3000 block of Wilma Rudolph Boulevard. When officers approached the room, knocked on the door, and announced their presence, the […]
A Mt. Juliet High School and Golden Bear football player is fighting for his life after he hydroplaned off the road during severe weather over the weekend. Jaxon Rocchiettie was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury. On Saturday afternoon, Jaxon was driving home from work on Old Lebanon Dirt Road when he hit some water and hydroplaned. “He slid off the road completely which made the hydroplane worse, and he […]
Two Portland High School teachers are loading up on supplies to deliver to East Tennessee families impacted by Hurricane Helene. At PHS, Trey Pitt and Matthew Ellithorpe teach “Career and Technical Education” (CTE). The two men hope to gather a list of supplies to drop off to families impacted by the storm, to fill up Mr. Pitt’s cattle trailer. Pitt says the idea suddenly came to him this past weekend, […]
Middle Tennessee was spared from the worst of Hurricane Helene, but some counties still saw high rain totals and wind gusts. In Tennessee, water flooded roads like Old Glenrose Avenue, where an overflow from Mill Creek gushed through a storm drain onto the street. Traffic on Briley Parkway was delayed on Friday after water flooded several freeway lanes near McGavock Pike. As of Saturday morning, rain gauges from across the […]
