Mayor Ernest Burgess will offer up to $1.2 million to obtain a building for the Rutherford County Sheriff's Narcotics Division, a committee decided Thursday. Burgess, Sheriff Mike Fitzhugh and ...

Ernest Burgess says it was his faith that got him through 12 years of leading Rutherford County through rapid growth. On Friday, Burgess will complete his third and final four-year term as the ...

Six out of 166 females also were sleeping on the floor. County Mayor Ernest Burgess said Friday that county officials have not completed a study of the long-term needs of the jail to determine ...

She leaves her husband, Ernest Burgess; two daughters, Jamie Burgess of Haddam and Karen Nigro of Westbrook; two brothers, Clifford and Joseph F. Angelica Jr., both of Enfield; and two sisters ...