FRANKLIN -- Notre Dame's wrestling team came to the Williamson County Agricultural Expo Center ready to fight Saturday morning and it took all of 32 minutes to eliminate Martin Luther King by a lopsided 70-12 final score. Luke Mullin got the ball rolling with a 50-second pin at 120 and was a breeze from that point on as Ned Warwick, David Hodges, William Nelson, Packy ... (click for more)

Notre Dame won a key District 7A/AA basketball match up Friday night, edging Sequatchie County 63-62.   Tyler Byrd led all scorers with 27.  Signal Mountain's Jack Teeter had 23.  Scores by Quarter Notre Dame 15 21 6 21 - 63 Sequatchie 16 9 11 26 - 62 Notre Dame (63) Tyler Byrd 27, AJ Flemister 14, Kealey Green 17, Westhoff 2, McGowan 3, ... (click for more)

Chance Loftis is set to be freed from jail on Monday after a Criminal Court jury on Friday afternoon found him guilty of only a minor charge. Instead of murder in the death of 46-year-old Donald Rogers, the jury in the courtroom of Judge Don Poole found him guilty of the lesser charge of reckless endangerment. He was found not guilty of aggravated animal cruelty in the beating ... (click for more)

Rhea County Fire Department officials said one person died in an early-morning house fire on Saturday. The call came at about 6:30 a.m. The brick residence is on Fisher Road. S tate arson investigators were on their way. (click for more)

Tennessee has a problem.  What is the value of saving the lives of 1,000 Tennesseans each year? That is exactly what can be expected if 176,000 Tennesseans gain health insurance through Insure Tennessee. A New England Journal of Medicine study showed that expansion of Medicaid was associated with a 6% reduction in yearly mortality for people in the 34-65 age group. Statistically, ... (click for more)

I attended my fifth funeral in the month of January the other day and, while I wish a lot of my friends would hang around a little longer, I was amused by the conversation in the pew before the service began. The question was “ … then what do you do with the ashes?” More and more people are being cremated and asking their loved ones to scatter their ashes -- more properly called ... (click for more)