Category: News

A resident of East Moore Street in Tullahoma reported that she woke up to a person in her apartment on Monday, July 17.
April Pool told Tullahoma Police Officer Jeremiah Kirk that around 4:30 a.m. she woke up to a man with flashlight walking around her apartment. She said when he saw that she was awake the man left.
When she checked that her purse with her wallet and cell phone as well as other personnel items from it were taken.
Officer Rocky Ruehling is investigating the incident.

Three juvenile suspects have been charged in connection with a series of break-ins that occurred between June 29th and July 8th in McMinnville. Break-ins were committed at multiple locations, including The Store at Westwood and three separate incidents at McMinnville Civic Center concession stands.
Items taken in the burglaries included concession items, cash, portable radios, beer and cigarettes.
During their investigation, McMinnville Police received information that led them to the West Riverside area, where they recovered numerous items taken in the burglaries. Police say the portable radios that were taken in an earlier break-in were used to communicate during the break-in at The Store.
Three juvenile suspects have been charged, including one that had fled DCS custody. One juvenile is charged with 4 counts of burglary, theft and vandalism. Another is charged with 2 counts of burglary, theft and vandalism and the third is charged with a single count of burglary, theft and vandalism.
They face a July 24th court date.

Gov. Bill Haslam visited two West Tennessee cities on Wednesday to award grants to a pair of Tennessee College of Applied Technology institutions. Haslam visited the technology schools in Covington and Ripley.
The state is giving Community Development Block Grants to the colleges to develop new training programs and expand current ones. Dollar amounts for the grants were not immediately released.
The news release says the schools are “in communities with limited higher education options.”
Haslam last month helped break ground at a new Tennessee College of Applied Technology in Winchester.
Tennessee adults without a higher education degree or certificate can attend the applied technology colleges tuition-free.

Preventing an illness is always better than trying to treat it once it occurs. That’s why doctors with the Tennessee Department of Health encourage people of all ages to talk with their healthcare providers about the immunizations needed for lifelong protection.
In recent years, new vaccines have been added to the healthy living toolbox to protect adults better than ever before. Nonetheless, most adults in Tennessee and around the country have not yet taken advantage of them. Tennesseans over age 65 are pretty good about getting pneumococcal and influenza vaccines, but fewer than one in four younger adults whose health, lifestyle or occupation may put them at risk for certain infections such as hepatitis B, pneumococcal disease or pertussis, have actually gotten these important vaccines.
Influenza vaccine should be an annual event for all adults. It is tailored specifically for each flu season. It is especially important for older adults, those with health problems and pregnant women.

Note: Correction of time of events.
There were two fatal accidents that occurred in Coffee County on Monday and an arrest has been made in the hit-and-run case.
The first crash took place on Hwy 41 near Hillsboro around 2:30pm Monday afternoon. The crash occurred in the ten thousand block of Highway 41. A pedestrian was struck and killed while checking his mailbox. Arthur J Mantone Jr age 79 of Hillsboro had parked his vehicle in the driveway of his residence on Highway 41. The man then crossed Hwy 41 to check his mail and he was struck by what is believed to be a 1999-2003 model Mitsubishi Galant, champagne in color. Matone Jr was pronounced deceased on scene.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol made an arrest late Tuesday night. Lieutenant John Harmon told WMSR News that THP will release the name and charges sometime on Wednesday.

The second wreck occurred on Hwy 53 just before 5pm.
A Toyota car driven by a male teenager (name not released) was traveling southbound on Highway 53 in Coffee County when his vehicle crossed over the center line and struck a Chevrolet SUV head-on. The Toyota spun out and came to rest in the middle of the roadway. The SUV spun off the roadway and came to rest near the wood line. The teen driver was transported to Vanderbilt Medical Center and is in stable condition. Patricia G Lloyd age 54 of Woodbury was transported to Unity Medical Center and later pronounced deceased.
Tennessee Highway Patrolman Dallas Lange investigated the scene. Coffee County Sheriff Deputies and Coffee County EMS were also on duty at the crash site.

The Coffee County Sheriff’s Department has recently installed video equipment to help with security at the Coffee County Justice Center.
Video conferencing equipment for inmate arraignments and additional security cameras have been put in. The video conferencing equipment should help reduce inmate transports.
Money to pay for the new equipment came from funds from the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department Drug Fund. Most of the money in the fund comes from drug-related cases that officers deal with throughout the year. The additional cameras cost about $9,000.
Money was saved on installation thanks to Allen Lendley and Matt Aussiker with the Coffee County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) who worked after hours and saved the county several thousand dollars.
The new security cameras adds 8 more for a total of 24 cameras.

After more than 16 years, the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services is free of federal oversight from a 2001 settlement over its treatment of foster care children.
Gov. Bill Haslam announced Tuesday that a federal judge approved an agreement in the lawsuit filed in 2000 by the nonprofit Children’s Rights.
Haslam’s office said the state worked for years with a committee of nationally recognized child welfare experts serving as the federal court’s monitor. He called Tuesday’s news monumental.
In a news release, Children’s Rights said the case involved more than 140 improvement requirements.
Some requirements included reasonable caseloads, sufficient training for case workers and quick response to abuse or neglect reports.

Col. Scott A. Cain assumed command of the Arnold Engineering Development Complex as the 30th commander during a change of command ceremony July 14.
The ceremony was attended by the commander’s guests, local dignitaries and AEDC personnel inside the AEDC Large Rocket Motor Test Facility, J-6, located at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee.
Cain comes to AEDC from Edwards Air Force Base, California, where he was the 412th Operations Group commander.
As the AEDC commander, Cain leads an advanced complex of flight simulation test facilities. AEDC is one of three installations which are part of the Air Force Test Center (AFTC) enterprise.
The test facilities simulate flight from subsonic to hypersonic speeds at altitudes from sea level to space. All NASA manned spacecraft, every high performance aircraft and missile, as well as most space launch systems and many military satellites in use by the Department of Defense today, have been tested in the facilities at the Complex.

Manchester resident Richard Herrin is selling t-shirts so he can purchase an electric chair to assist him in getting in and out of the bathtub.
Mr Herrin has Cerebral Palsy, but you would never know it if you spoke with him. His attitude is always amazing and a smile on his face.
If you would like to purchase a shirt or make a donation for Mr Herrin contact Daniel Ray via his Facebook page and he will arrange it. The shirts are $10.00 each and range from sizes small to 2X.

On July 22, 2017 Manchester Fire-Rescue will be conducting Fire Commission approved Live Fire Training at 1314 Summer St. This house was donated to the fire department to conduct live fire training. During that morning Manchester Fire-Rescue will block Clover Lane (from Hwy 41 by the bank) to Summer St, and then Summer St from Clover lane towards Hills Chapel Road. This training will be conducted with members of Manchester Fire-Rescue, Hickerson Station Volunteer Fire Dept, and New Union Volunteer Fire Dept.
Residents will be able to travel towards from the east side of Summer St to Hills Chapel Rd, and will able to travel from Clover Lane to Hills Chapel Rd from Rogers Circle.
Manchester Fire and Rescue apologizes for any inconvenience that may occur, but this is for the safety of First Responders operating at the live burn on July 22. Most likely the area will be shut down from 8AM – 4 PM that day. Barricades will be in place indicating the areas blocked off.