After having 37 Macon County Fairest of the Fair Queens, the Fair Board Pageant Committee would like to honor Halle Drue Shrum as the 2020 Macon County Fairest of the Fair.   She was the 2019 Macon County Fairest of the Fair 1^st Runner-up.  Halle represented the 2019 Macon County Fairest of the Fair in the 2019 Tennessee Sweetheart Pageant held on October 19, 2019 at Palace Theater in Crossville, TN.   For 19 years she has participated in the fair pageants. 

By Jessie Williams

A 50-year-old Lafayette man has been charged with conspiring with Travis Warner, Cody Jones, Wendell Jones and others to sell methamphetamine.

By Jessie Williams 

A 28-year-old Bowling Green, Kentucky, man was arrested by Macon County law enforcement last week after he allegedly showed up at an ex-girlfriend’s house, while under the influence, and shot a gun into the air.

By Jessie Williams 

A Lafayette man is being held on $78,000 bond for numerous drug charges following a traffic stop last Friday, September 11.