Today's News

A Lawrenceburg woman who police say set her house on fire with her bedridden grandmother still inside Sunday night has been charged with first-degree arson.

Investigators say they still don’t know why Cheryl Brogan, 41, of 309 Center St., started the fire, the first in a series of bizarre events that resulted in her arrest Monday near Little Rock, Ark.

A preschooler was left sleeping on a school bus last Tuesday afternoon, and three Anderson County Schools’ employees were placed on administrative leave as a result, according to Assistant Superintendent Larry Basham.

“We regret that it happened, but it did happen, so we have to deal with it,” Basham said.

The child, a 5-year-old girl, boarded the preschool/kindergarten bus at the Early Childhood Center at the end of the day Tuesday, Feb. 24.

The bus ran its route and went back to the garage, Basham said.

Missed opportunity to teach a lesson

To the editor,

The mission is far from accomplished, but the first leg was mighty good for Anderson County.

The Bearcats captured their second 30th District championship in three years Friday night, building a double-digit lead, then holding off Shelby County with clutch free throwing for a 55-49 victory.

A standing room only crowd estimated at 2,300 people squeeze in to the Anderson County High School gym to watch a pair of battle-tested and fierce rivals go at it for the second time this year. Anderson won the first one, 46-42, on Jan. 3.

Round two did not disappoint.