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Jordan Renfro

Jordan Renfro is a news reporter with ClarksvilleNow.com. Reach her by email at jrenfro@5starradio.com or call 931-648-7720 ext. 547

Crime
9 months ago
Former Oak Plains staff member charged with throwing 10-year-old boy across room

A former Oak Plains Academy staff member has been arrested on a charge of child abuse after an argument escalated into a fight with the 10-year-old boy.

Cheyenne Maddox hears the verdict during her jury trial, Oct. 31, 2025. (Jordan Renfro)
Crime
10 months ago
Mom found guilty of reckless homicide, neglect in death of disabled 13-year-old son

Cheyenne Dawn Maddox, charged with the murder of her disabled, 13-year-old son was found guilty of a lesser charge of reckless homicide.

Cheyenne Maddox testifies at her jury trial, Oct. 30, 2025. (Jordan Renfro)
Crime
10 months ago
‘I didn’t murder my son’: Mom testifies on death of disabled 13-year-old child

Cheyenne Dawn Maddox, charged with the neglect and murder of her disabled, 13-year-old son, told the jury she was innocent of the charge.

Crime
10 months ago
Child neglect, murder trial: Pediatrician describes weight loss, nurse tells of child’s condition | VIDEO

Day 2 in the jury trial for Cheyenne Maddox brought testimony from a pediatrician and a home nurse who took a special interest in Kadaris in the months leading up to his death.

Crime
10 months ago
‘Just skin and bones’: Trial begins for woman charged with murder of 13-year-old disabled son

Testimony in the Clarksville Kadaris Maddox case describes an emaciated child found dead in a cluttered house with food in the kitchen.

Military
10 months ago
Library book ban halted: Fort Campbell school ordered to restore books about race, gender

A federal judge has ruled in favor of students from Fort Campbell’s Barsanti Elementary School, finding that the government’s “partisan interest” violated students’ First Amendment rights.

The CMCSS school board rejected a resolution that would oppose a bill allowing schools to deny enrollment to illegal immigrant children on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. (Jordan Renfro)
News
10 months ago
Emotional crowd as CMCSS board debates enrollment of undocumented children | VIDEO

The Clarksville-Montgomery County School Board voted down a resolution opposing a state bill allowing schools to deny enrollment to children without legal immigration status.

News
10 months ago
Gary the Guardrail lives on in final resting place at O’Connor’s Pub in Clarksville | PHOTOS

Gary the Guardrail has been memorialized at O’Connor’s Pub at the intersection of Trenton and Tylertown Roads in Clarksville.

Sports
10 months ago
Austin Peay to host Tipoff at the Hangar to kick off 2025-26 basketball season

APSU is hosting their basketball season ‘tipoff’ at the Milan Hangar to celebrate the start of a new season.

Montgomery County Fire Service members, from the left, Don Kroll, John Witherspoon, Wesley O'Brien and Nicholas Whitley, with Petey on Sept. 28, 2025. (Joy Martin, contributed)
News
10 months ago
Petey the dog rescued from toilet-bidet by Montgomery County volunteer firefighters

Montgomery County Fire Service volunteers were recently called to their most unusual animal rescue yet: a dog stuck in a toilet-bidet.