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Manchester Wreck Injures One
 A two-car crash occurred around 5:00 PM Sunday afternoon (July 8, 2012) at 3261 Hillsboro Hwy. A white van with five occupants was stopped to make a turn into a driveway when it was struck by a small black car with two occupants. Out of the seven persons involved, only one was transported to an area hospital. The one taken was a woman that was seven months pregnant.
Coffee County Sheriff’s Department controlled traffic and the Tennessee Highway Patrol was in charge of the scene.
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Tullahoma Man Arrested On Rape Charges
Christopher Baker
According to a report filed at the Tullahoma Police Department, a 23-year-old Tullahoma man was arrested on sex charges Friday afternoon (July 6, 2012). Christopher Baker was charged by Tullahoma Police Investigator Jason Kennedy with statutory rape in connection with an incident that allegedly involved a 16-year-old girl.
The investigation continues.
7/9/12
Birthdays:
Lois Lowery – Pizza Winner!
Susan Campbell, Landon Cox – 14, Dorothy Hill, Christy Tenpenny, Teresa Gann, Tim Lowery
Anniversaries: Ed & Carol Brown – 52nd!! Danny & Wanda Ashby – 42rd!
7/8/12
Birthdays:
Jessica Howell – 22 – Pizza Winner!
George Totherow – 44, Elizabeth Call – 18, Dee Wells
7/7/12
Birthdays:
Reagar Reese – Pizza Winner! Michell Cooper – 40, Eric Mason, Randy Scalf – 6, Oscar Daniel – 67, Ashley Spry – 17.
Anniversaries: Eddie Paul & Wanda Brewer – 6th
7/14/12 — William Bradley “Brad” Cook
Funeral services for Mr. William Bradley “Brad” Cook, age 41, formerly of Manchester will be conducted Saturday, July 14, 2012 at 2:00 PM at Coffee County Funeral Chapel with Reverend Bob Case officiating.
Interment will follow at Rose Hill Memorial Gardens.
Visitation will be Friday, July 13, 2012 from 5:00-8:00 PM at the funeral home.
Brad passed away Friday July 6, 2012 in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
He was born August 13, 1970 in Coffee County, Tennessee the son of the Mrs. Sue Harner Cook and the late W.H. Cook, Jr.
Brad grew up in Manchester and graduated from Manchester Central High School. He attended Belmont University in Nashville where he graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Journalism and English. He then attended the University of Vermont, Burlington where he obtained a Masters Degree in English. Brad then went on to received a Law Degree from Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
He was employed with the United States Federal Government as an attorney. He specialized in Pattens and Trademarks as well as Veterans Appeals.
While living in Manchester, Brad worked at the family’s business, Cook Neon Signs, Inc. He was a member of the Forest Mill United Methodist Church. Brad will be missed beyond measure by his family and friends as well as his beloved Welsh Terriers, Dexter and Jackson.
In addition to his father, he is preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. W.H. Cook, Sr., and his maternal grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Harner and also his brother-in-law, David Reavis.
Survivors include his loving mother, Sue Harner Cook of Manchester; his devoted partner of twelve years, Frederick Redwine; two sisters, Tammy Cook Jones and husband, Frank of Manchester and Susan Cook Reavis also of Manchester; five nieces and nephews, Haley Tomasek, Kelsey Tomasek, and Elizabeth, Hannah and Alex Reavis.
The family requests memorial contributions in Loving Memory of Brad be made to one’s favorite charity.
Coffee County Funeral Chapel is honored to serve the family of Bradley Cook.
7/11/12 — Edna Montez Hurd
Edna Montez Hurd, age 73, of Winchester, went home to our Lord on Monday, July 9, 2012.
She was born on March 16, 1939 in Petrolia, TX.
Sister Hurd was a member of the Winchester Church of Christ. She was a retired insurance manager, interpreter for the deaf and decorative artist. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Bernard and Vada McAlister, and brother, Milton “Bud” McAlister.
She is survived by her husband, Dr. Bill Hurd, of Winchester; daughter, Regina and son Tony Harrison of Winchester; son, Nathan (Sandy) DuVal of Lima, OH; sister-in-law, Janet (Bob) McAlister-Clark of Lerna, IL; and two grandsons, Joshua Harrison of Knoxville and Timothy Harrison of Winchester.
Funeral Services will be conducted on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 10:00 AM in the Moore-Cortner Chapel with visitation beginning at 9:00 AM Monday at the Moore-Cortner Funeral Home, 300 First Ave. NW, Winchester.
No flowers please.
Interment will follow in the Franklin Memorial Gardens, Garden of the Cross, Cowan Highway.
Memorials may be sent to the Winchester Church of Christ, 1230 S. College St., Winchester, TN 37398.
Moore-Cortner Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Friends and Family Say Good-Bye
Erika Megan Sharpton
Friends and family gathered to say their goodbyes to a woman whose burned body was found in Franklin County. A celebration of life was held Saturday evening for 24-year old Erika Sharpton. Sharpton’s partially burned body was found last week on the side of the road by a motorist in Franklin County. Her death has been ruled a homicide, and detectives said preliminary reports indicated that Sharpton died of blunt force trauma. In an exclusive interview with News Channel 5, Sharpton’s mother, Kelly Sharpton, said her daughter was just honest, she was brutally honest,” and trusting, brutally trusting.” Kelly Sharpton said that her daughter’s eagerness to trust likely contributed to her murder last weekend. The mother said that Megan trusted people at face value. She believed that there is no bad, people make bad decisions, but ultimately there is truth in everybody. On Saturday at the celebration of Erika Megan Sharpton, known to her friends and family as Megan, local residents came to say their goodbyes. Sharpton was a nursing student at Motlow and also worked part-time at a local restaurant. No arrests have been made in the case. Ericka was last seen Sunday, July 1. Police have asked that anyone who saw her that day contact investigators. Agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have been called in to help with the investigation. Anyone with information has been asked to call the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office at 931-967-2331 or the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-TBI-FIND.
Tullahoma Working On Bel-Aire School
Crews in Tullahoma have been working on school facilities paving the Bel-Aire Elementary School parking lot. Daryl Welch of the Board of Education said Friday that the paving provides a much-needed lift to the school system’s oldest building. The $35,000 paving project is being performed by Rogers Group. Workers have already performed a $40,000 air-conditioning upgrade project and $22,000 in new windows installed in the gym area.
The Board of Education has said it needs a new roof on Tullahoma High School that is estimated to cost more than $1 million but that was not included in the city’s budget for the new fiscal year.
Gang Crimes Are Growing
Gang-related crimes rose by nearly 25% across Tennessee in 2011.
Citing statistics from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, The Tennessean reports that such crimes have more than doubled since 2005. But the real story isn’t necessarily in places like Nashville or Memphis.
Statistics show the state’s small towns are becoming incubators of gang violence.
Since 2005, cities with fewer than 50,000 residents saw gang crime more than triple.
Gangs are becoming problems in places like Springfield, a town of about 16,000 people 30 miles north of Nashville.
In the past two months in Springfield, three suspected gang members were arrested in the armed holdup of a bank and a 20-year-old man was found dead with a bullet wound to the back of his head.