Today's News

The bad news is that the county government is experiencing a budget deficit.

The good news is that it's nothing they can't handle.

At least, according to Shelby County Deputy Judge Executive Rusty Newton, who said that the exact amount of the shortfall has yet to be determined.

"We have to examine that issue in a finance committee meeting that we are having next week,” he said. "We won't have those numbers until then, because it will depend upon the deficit of occupational taxes.”

More than 200 people braved frigid temperatures last Friday night to gather in front of the Frankfort Regional Jail, where a local woman died three months ago.

Ana Romero, 44, of Shelbyville, was a native of El Salvador who was jailed and slated for deportation because she was in the country illegally. Although she was taken to the Shelby County Detention Center when she was arrested, she was transferred to the Frankfort facility where she was held for several months while awaiting deportation.

Two armed men remain at large after holding up the Starting Gate food mart and Chevron station in Simpsonville Wednesday afternoon.

The two men, described as young Hispanic males, held up the clerk at the store shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday.

“They did pull a weapon on the clerk,” said Shelby County Sheriff's detective Jason Rice.

The two men got away with an undetermined amount of money and were last seen traveling toward Todds Point Road in a maroon SUV.

Laura Floyd isn't sure where her children will be sent to school next year.

Floyd, who has a kindergartener and second-grader at Simpsonville Elementary School, is one of the 35 local parents who were notified last month that their child might be redistricted to Southside Elementary School because of overcrowding at Simpsonville.

Floyd and many other parents were angered by the change and asked for alternative solutions.