Today's News

For the second time in less than two weeks, a student at East Middle School has been arrested for threatening other students.

Shelby County Sheriff Mike Armstrong said that on Monday a student was arrested and charged with terroristic threatening after writing a "kill list" on a bathroom wall at the school.

The list consisted of three names, including that of the student who wrote it, he said.

Armstrong said that 12 days ago, a different student, also at East Middle, was also charged with terroristic threatening in similar incident.

Jesse A. Loving, 19 has been indicted on charges of criminal attempted murder. The charges, along with two others, stem from an incident on April 8 in which Loving allegedly fired several shots at a deputy sheriff who was trying to serve him with a warrant.   The deputy, Brian Miller, was not injured.

According to the indictment, Loving "intentionally or under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life, wantonly attempted to cause the death of Deputy Brian Miller."

Despite a brutal first quarter for many industries, Pegasus Packaging experienced a 27 percent rise in business, said co-owner Steve Meador.

Growth for the local outsourcing company came, Meador said, as industries looked for ways to save even small amounts of money in a tough economy.

“When things were good, they weren't looking so much at savings, but now they are trying to save everywhere they can,” Meador said. “So now they’re looking at what we can do for them.”

I recently heard a story about trumpet legend Louis Armstrong, who grew up in rural Louisiana in the early 1900s.

Armstrong told about how his Aunt Haddie Mae sent him down to the pond to fetch a bucket of water.  As he leaned over to get the water, an alligator surfaced and nearly scared him to death.