UPDATE: Preliminary Hearing for Local High School Coach Scheduled for Wednesday

Aug 29, 2024 at 09:56 am by WGNS News

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TN – The Riverdale High School girls’ soccer coach, who was placed on unpaid suspension due to a criminal case involving sexual offenses again.... Read More

RHS Girls’ Head Soccer Coach Arrested, Charged With 2 Counts of Statutory Rape

Jul 02, 2024 at 10:03 am by WGNS

Murfreesboro, TN – The head girls’ soccer coach at Riverdale High School, Nathan Sweet, was arrested Monday night (7/1/2024) and charged with two counts of statuto.... Read More

Rutherford County High Schools Embrace Synthetic Turf for Football Fields

Feb 22, 2024 at 12:07 pm by WGNS News

  CORRECTED and UPDATED: Rutherford County, TN - In a move signaling a significant upgrade to sports facilities across Rutherford County, several local high schools have.... Read More

Another great high school football regular season in the books

Oct 29, 2023 at 10:25 am by Danny Brewer

Time flies when you are having fun is one of those old sayings that has absolutely applied to the 2023 high school football regular season. After a few blinks of the eye and a.... Read More

Riverdale Girls Basketball Head Coach Resigns

Feb 25, 2023 at 11:43 am by WGNS

Riverdale girls basketball head coach Keri O'Neal has resigned. Principal Tamera Blair said, "I appreciate her hard work during the time she has been at Riverdale. She has be.... Read More

UPDATE: Teen Reported Missing in Murfreesboro on February 6 was Located on Tuesday, February 14

Feb 14, 2023 at 09:51 am by WGNS News

UPDATED: The Murfreesboro Police Department has confirmed that an 18-year-old student who was reported as missing on Monday, February 6th has since been located. Evi.... Read More

Storage Space Turned into Classrooms as Rutherford County Schools Continue to Grow

Oct 14, 2022 at 10:24 am by WGNS News

As Rutherford County continues to grow, the county schools continue to the feel growing pains. Storage space and workrooms within some of the existing schools have had to be t.... Read More

Teen with two firearms arrested at Riverdale / Blackman High School Football Game

Sep 07, 2022 at 06:05 pm by WGNS

An incident occurred during this past Friday’s Riverdale / Blackman High School football game. Evidently, a teen showed up at the game with two guns and marijuana, accor.... Read More

Riverdale launches first Honors College program

Aug 11, 2022 at 07:23 am by WGNS

Riverdale Principal Tamera Blair has a quote framed and displayed behind her desk. “You can’t beat the person who never gives up,” reads the famous quot.... Read More

Murfreesboro Mayor makes statement on Wednesday night shooting

May 19, 2022 at 06:25 pm by WGNS

On Thursday afternoon, Murfreesboro Mayor Shane McFarland commented on the Wednesday night shooting that left 18-year-old Hasani Brewer dead…  A 17-year-old h.... Read More

UPDATE: Shooting on MTSU Campus after Riverdale High School Graduation Leaves One Dead / One Critically Injured

May 19, 2022 at 02:34 pm by WGNS

(Murfreesboro, TN) UPDATE: Accused gunman arrested - WGNS has more on the shooting death of one victim and the critical injury sustained by another on Wednesday night at.... Read More

Shooting at Riverdale High School Graduation on the MTSU Campus Wednesday Evening

May 18, 2022 at 09:52 pm by WGNS

(Murfreesboro, TN) UPDATE — One person was killed and a second was critically injured in a shooting that occurred on the MTSU campus around 9:15 Wednesday nigh.... Read More

Riverdale High School Hosts St. Baldrick’s Foundation “Brave the Shave” to Raise Funds for Childhood Cancer Research

Apr 05, 2022 at 03:02 pm by WGNS

Riverdale High School in Murfreesboro, TN, will host a St. Baldrick’s Foundation signature head-shaving event to raise funds for lifesaving childhood ca.... Read More

Former student accused of bringing gun to Riverdale basketball game - loaded gun recovered by SRO's

Feb 09, 2022 at 03:40 pm by WGNS

Rutherford County School Resource Officers quickly recovered a loaded handgun from a 16-year-old former Riverdale High School student during a basketball game Tuesday (Feb. 8,.... Read More

School Zone Changes for Riverdale, Rockvale, Blackman and Siegel High Schools

Jan 25, 2022 at 03:48 pm by WGNS

  The Rutherford County Board of Education has narrowed its study proposal for a rezoning plan that will affect future students at Rockvale, Riverdale, Blackman and Sieg.... Read More

Riverdale choir to commemorate attack on Pearl Harbor; traveling to Hawaii for Dec. 7 memorial parade

Dec 01, 2021 at 07:56 pm by WGNS

Former president Franklin D. Roosevelt said it was a day that would live in infamy.The day was December 7, and the year was 1941 and now, 80 years later, the choir from Riverd.... Read More

Human services practicum provides Riverdale students work-based learning opportunities

Aug 31, 2021 at 07:24 am by WGNS

The summer leading into her freshman year of high school, Katelyn Cahill lost her grandmother.Cahill was 14.Despite all the time she had spent with her maternal grandmother, s.... Read More

Oakland alums return to marvel at Mechatronics program expansion

Aug 10, 2021 at 07:46 pm by WGNS

It had been three years since Dhruv Patel had been in the mechatronics classroom at Oakland High School.  After graduating in May 2018, Patel enrolled in the University o.... Read More

Live 4 Tay Foundation asks the Community to Carry on Legacy

Jul 20, 2021 at 03:56 pm by WGNS

Tay, who loved to play softball, had a saying when it came to her diagnosis, "I will NOT let the FEAR of cancer STRIKE me out." In 2009, a young lady in Murfreesboro received.... Read More

Over 1,000 Rutherford County School Students Participating in Credit Recovery - Summer School Programs

Jun 11, 2021 at 08:57 am by WGNS

The 2020-2021 school year was not ideal for anyone.  For some students, it proved to be problematic. Jakob Salas was one of those students.A senior at Smyrna High School,.... Read More