HUNTINGDON, Tenn. — The Sonic Drive-In on E. Main Street received a score of 85 out of 100 on a routine Tennessee Department of Health food service inspection conducted October 8. A score of 85 falls within the state’s passing range, though a follow-up inspection was required. Several concerned readers submitted the report to Carroll County Observer. Six violations were...

With all that has taken place and is being said about ambulance service in Carroll County, provided by Priority Ambulance under the name "Baptist Ambulance," it seemed appropriate to look back on how we arrived at this point as a county. It is well known that Carroll County does not pay anything for its ambulance service. Baptist covers the entire...

CARROLL COUNTY, Tenn. — County Fire Chief Jonathan Gaskins is calling on Priority Ambulance’s corporate leadership to address what he describes as longstanding problems with staffing, equipment, and response times in Carroll County. In a public statement ahead of Monday’s commission meeting on ambulance service, Gaskins said Carroll County’s ambulance service is operating at roughly half of its required staffing...

CARROLL COUNTY, Tenn. — Austin Drummond is asking a judge to throw out his conviction in the prison stabbing case or grant him a new trial. In a renewed motion filed Oct. 7 in Carroll County Circuit Court, Drummond’s attorneys argue that a series of errors tainted the trial, in which a jury found him guilty of attempted voluntary manslaughter...