We have a reminder for you that early voting continues through July 28 for the August 2 general and primary elections. It will only take a few minutes and it means you will not have to stand in line on Election Day. After two days of voting (Friday and Saturday) 861 Coffee Countians had voted. There were 569 Republicans and 279 Democrats that cast their ballots. Thirteen voters cast ballots in the county general election and chose not to vote in the state primary.
Early voting hours will be Monday through Friday from 8am to 4:30pm and Saturdays from 8:30am until noon at the Election Commission office in the Coffee County Administration Plaza and in Tullahoma at the C.D. Stamps Center from 9am-4:30pm, Monday-Friday and Saturdays 9am-noon. Early voting will end on July 28th. Election Day is August 2nd. All voters who vote early or on Election Day must present a government issued photo ID.

The Food and Drug Administration is warning people who buy medicines online they could become the target of a new scam.
Criminals are posing as FDA officials and the agency believes it’s an international extortion scam. They say several dozen people have received letters that look authentic. The letters claim the federal agency has been monitoring their social media accounts.
The fake warning letters accuse people of drug law violations and threaten them with possible legal action for attempting to buy drugs online or on the phone.
What’s more frightening is that the scammers appear to have financial information and addresses for a lot of people.
The FDA says they generally send actual warning letters only to companies that manufacture drugs, not to people receiving them.

A fugitive who was added to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Top 10 Most Wanted list over the weekend is now in custody after being captured in Davidson County.
William Barnard Hawk was taken into custody at the Walmart parking lot on Powell Avenue in Nashville Monday afternoon. Several law enforcement agencies provided assistance during the apprehension, including TBI, Metro Nashville Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service Middle Tennessee Joint Fugitive Task Force.
Hawk was wanted by the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department to face a charge of Attempted Criminal Homicide in connection to an incident that occurred in the Park City area on July 14th.

Law enforcement agencies across the southeast are gearing up to put the brakes on high-speed drivers. The second annual “Operation Southern Shield” kicked off Monday in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and South Carolina.
The goal of the operation, which lasts through Sunday, July 22, is to reduce crashes, fatalities and injuries by cracking down on speeding drivers.
In Tennessee, more than 9,100 citations were issued during the 2017 operation. 5,500 of those were for speeding.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says speeding killed more than 10,000 people in the United States in 2016 and was a factor in 27 percent of fatal crashes in the nation.

Alzheimer’s Tennessee invites everyone in the South Central Tennessee community to an “Ice Cream Social” to commemorate the grand opening of the Regional Office in Tullahoma. The event is held on Tuesday, July 31 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Alzheimer’s Tennessee’s new regional office in Tullahoma is located at 207 North Jackson St., Tullahoma, TN.
The Coffee County Alzheimer’s Tennessee office will serve individuals and families living with Alzheimer’s disease Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Lincoln and Maury Counties and areas surrounding these counties.