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End of Watch: April 23, 1926 Burnside City Marshal Hiram Gregory was 49 or 50 years old when he was gunned down in 1926 while attempting...

End of Watch: October 1, 1913 On August 18, 1913, an alleged moonshiner shot and killed a Burnside Councilman, John Fitzgerald, and...

End of watch: April 13, 2002 Today, our community looks back twenty years and mourns one of the greatest losses in recent memory. Those...

A Tribute April 13, 2022, marks 20 years since Pulaski County Sheriff Sam Catron was killed in the line of duty. In memory of his service...

End of watch: 1911 "Constable William Heath and Justice of the Peace Andrew Beatty were shot and killed while waiting to serve warrants...

End of watch: 1903 Camp Meetings in Mt. Victory By 1903 the Mt. Victory Camp Meeting had taken place annually for several years and was...

End of watch: 1891 The first on our list of fallen Hometown Heroes is Sheriff John McHargue. We don’t know if he was the first officer in...

Just a smalltown kid Noble “Red” Holt was born September 9, 1891, to Elizabeth “Bettie” Surber and John M.P. Holt in Pulaski County,...

We have a doozy of a tale for the February Hometown Murders & Mysteries leading up to Valentine's Day. In fact, part of this story took...

We hope our friends, neighbors, clients, and casual readers enjoyed the Thanksgiving holiday! At our house, we had many things to...

Special Edition The Ghost of Fishing Creek - Pulaski Park Roads. It has been said, in years past, that folks driving up Fishing Creek...

Part 2 Yesterday in Part 1, we learned that Thomas Hurd had been brutally murdered on July 30, 1938, in his two-room Tateville home near...

This month our story takes us back to the beginning of a new millennium to the late 1930s. We follow a man's journey from Russell County,...

Figure 1 Part 1 of 2 By the time the 1950s rolled in, people were sluffing off the effects of the Great Depression and World War II....

Looking back 100 years! The articles and news bites in this blogpost examine the safety and security challenges our community and leaders...

LCTI will post snippets of local news and history from various reporting and research outlets to share with our community for the sole...

By Michael R. Grigsby The Glock Model 43 is a subcompact version of the larger Glock Model 19 and the compact Glock Model 26, only with a...