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Highlands High School Principal Laura Burns said students find greater success in the classroom when they attend school regularly. But getting kids to school appears to be a problem. Administrators are fighting to buoy dismal attendance rates at the high school, as data reflects that only about 70% of the

Davidson County Commissioners approved a contract for architectural plans for a new detention center at the property on State Street in Lexington.

A deported U.S. Army veteran represented by the Veterans Legal Services Clinic has returned home and become a U.S. citizen.

The system alerts subscribers when there is a surge of overdoses in Montgomery County by sending a text message.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — When drastic increases in food costs spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic left Andrew Caplinger struggling to find fresh catfish for his restaurants, he decided to try “an experimental” solution — growing his own.

Two Davidson County School Board members will get additional money after it was determined that a recent decision to change their pay rate was illegal

By CASEY SMITH Associated Press /Report for America

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — At her home in Rockford, Illinois, Rita Davisson said the “one or two” mice she normally sees during the waning winter months “have turned into more like 10 or 15” in the last couple years, and scientists say the warmer weather might have something to do with it.

Beyond the nuisance created by mice, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire have so far experienced the largest increases in reported cases of Lyme disease.

Researchers say warming temperatures and milder winters have increased the population of the white-footed mouse.