There's a strong show of support for a Robertson County Sheriff's Office deputy found dead in her Middle-Tennessee home. A sea of blue escorted the body of 22-year-old Deputy Savanna Puckett from the medical examiner's office in Nashville back to Robertson County yesterday. Officers from other Mid-State law enforcement agencies lined the route to pay their respects. Puckett was found shot inside her burning home on Sunday night. Meanwhile, the […]
The TBI is investigating the apparent shooting death of a Robertson County Sheriff's Office deputy. Deputy Savanna Puckett was found shot inside her burning Springfield home last night by another deputy after Puckett failed to report for her shift. Deputy Puckett was 22-years-old and had been with RCSO for four years. RCSO says "Words cannot express the sadness and grief that Savanna's family and her Sheriff's Office family are facing […]
Cheatham and Robertson County Schools are closed for the rest of the week. Cheatham County Schools closed earlier in the week over winter weather-related issues and extended the closure due to staffing challenges caused by illness. Robertson County Schools cited the same reason for closing the rest of the week. Clarksville Police say a man's body has been recovered in an area where an SUV went off the road and […]
Former mayor of Robertson County Roy Appleis dead. He served two terms as county mayor from 1994 to 2002. Before that, he was a member of the school board for over 20 years. He became chairman of the Regional Workforce Board in 2000 and served in that capacity until his death. A service was held to remember Apple’s life last Friday at the Austin and Bell Funeral Home in Greenbrier. […]
It's still not publicly known if anyone was inside a vehicle that went into the Red River in Clarksville. The vehicle was removed from the river late yesterday afternoon. It went into the river after leaving Wilma Rudolph Boulevard early Sunday morning. Roads were slick at the time of the crash. The new year is off to a snowy start in the Mid-State. The National Weather Service says many Mid-State […]
The Tennessee Department of Transportation is encouraging Tennesseans to stay off the roads if they can. Many roads, bridges and overpasses are slick due to ice following yesterday's snow. Crews worked 16-hour shifts over the weekend to keep roads safe. TDOT says it prioritizes interstates first and then moves on to primary state routes, and then the secondary state routes. A recovery operation is expected to start today for a […]
Robertson County employers will no longer be forced to administer weekly COVID tests to unvaccinated workers. This, after a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday that struck down the Biden Administration's push to increase vaccination rates among U.S. workers. The conservative majority of the High Court ruled the White House was overstepping its bounds with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's vaccine-or-test measure for companies with 100 or more […]