On Saturday (January 20th, 2018) Manchester Police responded to a hit and run accident on the Tullahoma Hwy. Officers state that Orlando Ferez Hayworth age 42 of Johnson Lane, Tullahoma allegedly struck another vehicle and then fled the scene of the accident without reporting it.
According to the arrest warrant, Officer Jamie Norris states that Hayworth then crashed his vehicle on the 2800 block of the Tullahoma Hwy while leaving the scene of the first accident. The man then allegedly fled on foot from his vehicle before being located by officers. When officers caught Hayworth, they stated in the warrant they detected the odor of an intoxicant about the man. Hayworth also allegedly had slurred speech, blood shot eyes and was unsteady on his feet. The warrant states that the man admitted to drinking to the officer and tests were conducted with the man allegedly performing poorly on all the tests given.
Officer Norris then transported the Hayworth to Unity Medical Center for a blood-alcohol test, results are pending.
The man, according to the warrant, was also found to have no insurance for his vehicle at the time of his accident.
While being checked into the Coffee County Jail, Hayworth allegedly spit in the right eye of Sgt. Floyd Rowell when correction officers were asking him to empty his pockets.
Hayworth was charged with DUI, leaving the scene of an accident, failure to report an accident, failure to provide proof of insurance and assault. He bonded out of jail and is set to appear in court on March 27, 2018.

The City of Manchester Street Department will be conducting some needed work on Tuesday (January 23. 2018). The work being done is to repair the tile under the roadway. This will have Rye St (from Hwy 41 to Hwy 55) closed for the time it takes to repair the tile.
The City of Manchester Street Department would like to thank the public for their cooperation, so the work can be done safely.
If you have any questions or concerns, please call the street department at 931-728-6903.

Coffee County has been awarded a grant from the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) for $6 million. The road construction project will widen New Bushy Branch and Ragsdale roads in Manchester. The work will widen a 2.9-mile section to three lanes. This is main road that attendees use to enter Bonnaroo each June.
The replacement of the bridge over Wolf Creek is expected to cost about $2 million, and the grant funds will cover 80 percent of that expense.
The road upgrade is expected to cost between $4 and $5 million, with the grant covering 50 percent.
Bonnaroo representatives say the objective is for the matching funds to be paid with funds collected from ticket fees. Festival representatives have proposed a $4 fee for each ticket sold to go to an infrastructure fund.
The contract between Coffee County and festival organizers ended June 30, 2017.
According to a new proposed agreement this would eliminate a $3 per ticket fee and the $30,000 annual flat fee that the county receives from Bonnaroo. The proposed $4 fee per each ticket sold will go to an infrastructure fund to be used for improvements on or around the festival’s grounds.
The new contract is still being negotiated.

A federal audit estimates Tennessee’s Medicaid program overpaid managed care organizations by $2.7 million over seven years for patients who were already deceased.
A December audit by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services inspector general says TennCare should recover the money and return a $1.8 million federal share.
TennCare Deputy Commissioner Wendy Long responded that the state has recouped a significant portion of the money through a software change, will recover the rest and will return the federal share. She said TennCare is working to understand why its death list differed from what auditors had.
TennCare spokeswoman Sarah Tanksley said the cases represent a small number of unique circumstances worth about $130,000 each year. She says TennCare paid $30 billion-plus to managed care organizations in that timeframe.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips recently announced Tennessee ended 2017 with more than 28,000 new jobs across the state in the last year and an unemployment rate nearly 2 percentage points lower than 2016.
In 2017 a total of 28,700 nonfarm jobs were created across the state. The largest increases occurred in the leisure and hospitality industry, followed by education and health services. Since 2011, 391,300 net new private sector jobs have been created in Tennessee.
Tennessee first marked a historic low unemployment rate in June at 3.6 percent, which was bested by the July rate of 3.4 percent, and then fell even lower in August to 3.3 percent. It hit a new historic low of 3 percent in both September and October. November’s rate inched up to 3.1 percent.
Tennessee’s unemployment rate continues to post well below the national rate of 4.1 percent, which has remained unchanged since October.

On Friday night at 11:15pm Manchester Fire & Rescue received a report of a house fire at 412 W High Street. Crews arrived on the scene and the home was fully engulfed in flames. Firemen made an aggressive attack on the fire extinguishing it about an hour later.
Tullahoma Fire & Rescue responded to provide coverage for the city while crews were combatting the late-night blaze. Tullahoma also responded with their air truck to provide much needed air support on the scene during overhaul actions.
Coffee County EMS, Manchester Police and the Coffee County Communication Center provided excellent support and assistance. According to Fire Chief George Chambers, there were no injuries during then incident and the cause is under investigation.

Authorities captured a man who escaped from the Bedford County Jail.
Andrew Marshall was visiting his wife’s grandmother in Estill Springs when taken into custody by Franklin County deputies.
Marshall escaped the jail twice in 2017.
Marshall had just finished taking a shower around 1:30 a.m. Thursday when he ran out the door at the jail’s sally port. It had been left cracked open by a jailer taking a break.
The Bedford County Jail is to be replaced with a new facility within the next few years. The facility is extremely overcrowded and in poor condition.