In Putnam County, the mayor's office with the Cookeville-Putnam County Chamber of Commerce is, in a way, acting as a recruiter for the plant workers. Perdue Farms will close on March 28.

Murfreesboro, a fast-growing city of 168,000 people, is both the geographic center of the state and its economic engine.

An Adair County grand jury has indicted a Tennessee man on a murder charge in connection to a December crash that killed a ...