A traffic stop on I-40 in Putnam County Friday netted law enforcement officers over one-quarter of a million dollars and the circumstances surrounding that money's existence remains under investigation, ...

The Cumberland County Sheriff's Department says it found this money - $283,210 - stuffed in a compartment of a tractor-trailer traveling west on Interstate 40 on Friday.

A four-year program that was devised to help accelerate economic growth in the region was the central focus of a special briefing Thursday at Upper Cumberland Regional Airport.