Submitted by Heather on Thu, 05/02/2013 - 8:19am
The discovery of a suspicious package led to a one-block perimeter of the Walker County courthouse annex building in downtown LaFayette Wednesday morning.
A small blue lunch bag and a sweatshirt were found by a maintenance worker at 11:30 a.m. and belonging to no one in the building.
With the uncertainty of the bag and in light of recent national events, officials exercised caution on the off-chance that an explosive device may have been left.
Submitted by Heather on Wed, 12/05/2012 - 8:49am
The LaFayette Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying a burglar.
A black male wearing a black hoodie entered the LaFayette Walmart on Thursday, Nov 29.
He entered the building through the grocery entrance at 11:10 p.m. and went into the garden center.
The man used a claw hammer, that he carried into the store, to pry open an unoccupied register, taking $400 and significantly damaging the register valued at a few thousand dollars, according to captain Stacey Meeks.
Submitted by Heather on Fri, 11/30/2012 - 8:26am
A LaFayette teen will be tried as an adult for sexually molesting two young boys that he violated repeatedly in May 2012.
Sixteen-year-old Scott Kenneth Winebrinner faces five counts of aggravated sodomy, five counts of aggravated child molestation and four counts of child molestation.
“He will be tried as an adult. It does meet the criteria as one of the seven ‘deadly’ sins, where juveniles are automatically bumped up to superior court and tried as an adult,” LaFayette police captain Stacey Meeks said. “There were various sexual acts performed.”
Submitted by Heather on Fri, 11/16/2012 - 8:08am
One year after the debut of his One-Eleven restaurant in downtown LaFayette, local businessman Michael Lovelady has opened another establishment in the city, this time with a much more casual feel.
Submitted by Heather on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 8:51am
In a 1977 classic movie Burt Reynolds asks Jerry Reed, “What do you think they do for excitement in this town?”
“Cledus Snow,” played by Reed, replies, “Probably sit around and watch the cars rust.”
Wolfgang Geiger and his team at Elite Custom Paint and Body in LaFayette certainly don’t follow that assumption, as the tiny custom shop turns rusty cars into exciting restorations and tricked-out modified vehicles.
One of the shop’s current projects is the 1977 special edition Pontiac Trans Am featured in the hilarious original movie “Smokey and the Bandit.”
Submitted by Heather on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 8:39am
An open house and news conference held Tuesday, July 10, at the former Blue Bird facility in LaFayette formally welcomed a new business to the industrial park, which has sat unused since the Blue Bird bus manufacturing business packed up its LaFayette branch in August 2010.
Phillips Machine Holdings LLC, which currently operates as Phillips Bros. Machine Co. in Rossville, is expanding its business into the old plant and adding new jobs to the area in the process.
