Columbia Tennessee Travel Guide

FRANKLIN - City, county and state officials turned out en force for a tour of the Williamson County campus of Columbia State Community College and a pitch to support its potential overhaul.

In an effort to rise above the radar, the administration at Columbia State Community College's Williamson County campus gave a group of community leaders a glimpse of the past and present as they reached out for help with planning the future - the dream of a modern Higher Education campus CSCC's Williamson County campus.

Police in Columbia were investigating a homicide Tuesday morning after a body was found on the banks of the Duck River.

The Columbia Police Department said Monday Gary Reese, whose body was found along the banks of the Duck River, may have been killed.

It took years of passing each other by in their hometown high school before Paige Marden and Matt Tocco wound up finally meeting at a mutual friend's home hundreds of miles away.

Every time a unique character dies, a little of me goes, too. And a little of Lake County is eroded away.

Don Spain, the longtime producer of the weekly roundup television show Legislative Report, has died.

Colleges and universities across the country are reporting record enrollment. The experts said the economy is the driving force.

Just visiting the Carnton Plantation or Carter House in Franklin without having visited places such as Rippavilla Plantation in Spring Hill is like watching the last five minutes of a movie.

Go hear music in Leiper's Fork, the community where stars such as Wynonna Judd and Michael McDonald live.

It's Election Day in Columbia, and people will be heading to the polls to pick their new mayor and vice-mayor. The election will determine who will replace outgoing Mayor Bill Gentner and determine who will serve as vice-mayor. Council members Dean Dickey, Debbie Matthews and Sue Stephenson; Columbia businessman Jerry Hodges and Maury County ...

COLUMBIA - The chairs created by a Williamson County slave are believed to have enabled him to buy his freedom before the Civil War and were so well made, they have lasted 150 to 160 years.

John Turner and Glenda Victory of the Turner-Victory Team of Bob Parks Realty attended the annual Dave Ramsey conference for endorsed local providers for real estate in Cool Springs this week.

Mark Collie was married in a ceremony in Columbia, Tenn., Saturday, Oct. 24. Mark, best known for his hits like "Even the Man in the Moon Is Crying" and "Born to Love You," and his bride Tammy celebrated at a reception at a friend's home.

COLUMBIA, Tenn. -- A vandal has been blotting out the dirty words in books at the Maury County Library.

A Franklin firefighter and an elderly patient were killed, and a Nashville firefighter was critically injured when the private ambulance they were in drove into the breakdown lane on Interstate 65 near I-440 and hit a TDOT HELP truck Thursday afternoon.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has arrested three former Maury County Sheriff's Office employees on grounds they hid capiases.

COLUMBIA, Tenn. - A man who authorities say previously was involved with bestiality pornography has been charged with animal cruelty.

That's because it's against the law, as a man named James Tait discovered in Columbia, Tennessee recently.

Two men face animal cruelty charges after investigators believe one of them spent months consistently engaging in sex acts with a horse.