DeMarcus Mayes of Tullahoma was riding his skateboard on Monday night when he was struck by a car on Atlantic St. Mayes, 22 was flown to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville with serious injuries. Mayes died late Wednesday night.
According to a police report by Tullahoma Police Sgt. Robert Weaver, around 7:15 p.m. Mayes was struck by a 1996 Ford Mustang operated by Ronald Allen Jacobs, 21, of Beechgrove.
Jacobs said that he did not see the skateboarder in the roadway until he struck him. After striking Mayes, the Mustang then struck a guardrail.
Witnesses told the officer that Mayes was in the middle of the roadway and that Jacobs swerved into the northbound lane and back into the southbound lane and struck Mayes sending him into through the air.
The witnesses said that it did not appear that the driver of the car was speeding at the time of the crash.

We have an update on the Grundy County assistant football coach and teacher at Swiss Memorial Elementary School that is facing statutory rape charges.
Deputies arrested Tommy Andrews, 41, on Sunday and charged him with one count of aggravated statutory rape and one count of aggravated statutory rape by an authority figure.
Grundy County Sheriff Clint Shrum says, “We received a complaint last week and we presented the case to the district attorney’s office before charges were filed”.
Shrum says during the process of his department’s investigation his officers learned a complaint was made to the Department of Children’s Services about Andrews on May 7.
In new information, Shrum said in a television interview that his office had collected hard evidence against Andrews. The arrest report states that Andrews picked up the 14-year-old victim from a friend’s house in November and had sex with her in his truck.
Andrews has been released from jail on a $60,000 bond. As part of the conditions of his bond, Andrews must wear a GPS monitoring device to ensure he stays away from the victim in the case.

Bedford County authorities have recaptured an inmate who escaped from their jail on Tuesday night.
The Bedford County Sheriff’s Department posted on Facebook on Tuesday night that Harley Caffee escaped and was captured early Thursday morning. He was originally arrested on burglary charges. He will now face charges for escape.

The parent companies of two of Shelbyville’s major employers are combining in a $13.2 billion deal.
Newell Rubbermaid, which operates packaging and distribution centers on Railroad Avenue, is buying Jarden Corp. It was only two months ago that Jarden reached an agreement to buy Jostens, which has a plant on Union Street. The sale of Jostens to Jarden closed in November.
Middle Tennessee Industrial Development Association (mtida.org), in its 2015 community data profile, lists Newell Rubbermaid as having 800 employees in Shelbyville and Jostens as having 375.
Jostens has operated in Shelbyville since 1960, producing school diplomas and other recognition products.
Newell Rubbermaid, through various acquisitions, is the heir to a company many remember as Empire Pencil Company.
The company used to have a manufacturing plant on Pencil Street in Shelbyville, but a re-organization of the company’s manufacturing workflow resulted in that plant closing, so the company no longer has any manufacturing presence in Shelbyville. A state-of-the-art Liquid Manufacturing and Technology Center (LMTC) is now located in Coffee County’s Interstate Industrial Park in Manchester, Tenn. The Liquid Manufacturing and Technology Center manufactures ink for the company’s office products brands. (Shelbyville Times-Gazette)

Motlow State Community College continues to make headlines as one of the state’s top performing institution for the Tennessee Promise scholarship program. After leading all colleges in Tennessee in enrollment growth for the fall 2015 semester, Motlow recently topped all Tennessee community colleges in another important category.
Of the 13 participating institutions in the state, Motlow had the highest percentage of students completing their community service requirement for the upcoming spring semester. Eighty-eight percent of the students enrolled in Tennessee Promise at Motlow completed the minimum of eight hours of community service required by the Dec. 1 deadline.
When Motlow led all Tennessee colleges in growth at the beginning of the fall term, it was recognized that the biggest challenge moving forward would be retaining students under the requirements of Tennessee Promise. Achieving the highest percentage of students completing their community service indicates Motlow is well on its way to meeting this challenge.
For more information about the Tennessee Promise at Motlow, visit TNPromise.mscc.edu or contact Jonathan Graham, Motlow Tennessee Promise coordinator, at Jgraham@mscc.edu or 615-220-7839.