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Tennessee has the fifth highest rate of women murdered by men in the country with a rate of 1.91 per 100,000, according to a new study.
The Violence Policy Center released their study, When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2016 Homicide Data, Tuesday. The VPC used data from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Report to determine where each state would rank.
The study looks into homicides involving one female victim and one male suspect.
Across the United States, the study found that more than 1,800 women were murdered by men in 2016. 93 percent of those women were killed by a man they knew, and a gun was the most common weapon used.
This is the ninth year in a row that Tennessee has ranked in the top 10. The only states with higher rates are Alaska, Louisiana, Nevada and Arkansas, according to the study.

After a series of problems this spring, Governor Bill Haslam says he’s being urged not to “re-invent the wheel” for student testing.
WKRN-TV reports that this comes as the governor wrapped his final stop Tuesday on the statewide listening tour for the assessment test called TNReady.
There was plenty wrong with TNReady student testing this past April.
Those issues prompted Haslam to go on his statewide listening tour. The governor says he has been impressed with practical solutions being offered about the tests that are a key part of student, teacher and school evaluations, but says there could be tradeoffs with potential changes.
The governor says there will be a full report on what he learned about the student tests as early as next week.

The Coffee County Fair continues at the fairgrounds in Manchester.
Activities on Wednesday include Nick’s Kids Show at 5, 7 and 8:30 pm. On the grandstand stage at 7pm will be the music group, Refuge followed by, By Faith. Also, Wednesday night all the carnival rides are only $1 per ride.
Attention veterans: the Manchester Recreation Center wants to recognize all veterans individually for their service to our country at the Coffee County Fair on Wednesday morning, September 19. Senior Day activities begin at 9am.
The past Saturday (Sept. 15) the Fairest of the Fair pageant was held with the crowning Javaun Verge as this year’s winner. Other competition winners will be announced later this week.

The Board of Mayor and Aldermen, the Tullahoma Area of Chamber of Commerce, the Coffee County Industrial Board and the Tullahoma Area Economic Development Corporation (TAEDC) invite the public to a reception to recognize and honor Micro Craft, Inc.’s sixtieth anniversary of operations in Tullahoma.
The reception will be Monday, September 24, 2018 from 4:30 pm to 5:30pm at City Hall in the Board Chambers. Light refreshments will be served. The public is invited and encouraged to attend.
Micro Craft has sixty years of experience providing precision manufacturing to NASA, DoD, and OEMs. They have been involved in the development of virtually every major domestic and many foreign fixed wing, rotary wing and missile system program since the 1958.

A 16-year-old female was leaving the Franklin County High School campus on Sunday in the vehicle she was driving when apparently, she collided with a gate in front of a bus parking area.
Emergency crews from the scene reported that a pole broke off the fence and went through the passenger’s side windshield and out the driver’s side back window. The vehicle then continued into a ditch on nearby Georgia Crossing Road.
Winchester Police reports that the teenager was injured and to be airlifted to Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville.

Hurricane Florence had little to no effect on prices at the pump last week. Gas prices in Tennessee have held steady through the past week. Sunday’s state average of $2.59 per gallon is the same as a week ago and 3 cents less than last month. However, motorists are still paying 2 cents per gallon more than this time last year.
“Both the Colonial and Plantation pipelines – which are the primary suppliers of fuel to the lower Atlantic region – were reportedly unaffected by the storm and are running at full capacity,” said Mark Jenkins, spokesman, AAA – The Auto Club Group. This should help Tennessee remain well supplied with gasoline. Refineries are now preparing to switch to winter-blend gasoline, which is cheaper to produce and normally leads to lower prices at the pump.”
The cheapest gas price in Coffee County this week can be found in Manchester at $2.47 per gallon. The lowest price in Tullahoma is $2.54.

The 2018 deer archery-only hunting season opens statewide in Tennessee on Saturday, Sept. 22. The archery season dates in all five of the state’s deer hunting units are the same. The dates are Sept. 22-Oct. 26 and Oct. 29-Nov. 2.
In addition to deer, archers may harvest one bearded turkey during the archery-only deer season in counties that have a fall turkey hunt. Turkeys harvested during the archery-only deer season count toward the fall turkey county bag limits.
Hunters are reminded that they must possess the appropriate licenses and permits. Any hunter born on or after Jan. 1, 1969 is required to carry proof of satisfactory completion of a hunter education class or be in possession of the Apprentice Hunting License (along with other required licenses), while hunting any species in Tennessee.