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This week marks six years since a Bedford County teacher disappeared.
Shelley Mook was last seen on February 28, 2011 after dropping off her young daughter at her estranged husband’s Shelbyville home.
Her car was later found burning in a field in Rutherford County.
Mook’s estranged husband has been the only person of interest in the case, but he has never been charged in her disappearance.
Several searches over the years including some in Coffee County have turned up nothing.
Tyler Mook was found guilty of trying to kill a different woman in 2014.
According to police in Florida, Mook threw his girlfriend off of a boat and attempted to hold her under water. Tyler’s brother Andrew Mook managed to pull him off.
Tyler Mook has maintained that he had nothing to do with Shelley’s disappearance.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation still has the case open.
Anyone with information about the case should call 1-800-TBI-FIND.

The registration deadline for the ACT preparation class sponsored by Motlow State Community College has been extended to Monday, March 6, at noon.
Classes will meet each Monday on March 6, 13, 20, 27, and April 3, from 6-8:30 p.m. in Simon Hall, room 132, on the Moore County campus. Students should bring $60 for registration, with checks made payable to Motlow State Community College, and $32.95 for the textbook, made payable to Motlow College Bookstore. Please bring exact change or check, and textbooks will only be sold on the first night.
The class is designed to prepare high school students for the four sections tested on the ACT Assessment by covering test taking strategies, pacing oneself, using logic, reviewing answers, etc.
To register call the office of Extended Services at 931-393-1760 or 1-800-654-4877, extension 1760.

Tullahoma Police and Fire Departments were sent on Feb. 25 to a residence on East Hogan Street.
When Officers Sgt. Chase Sons, Officers Matt Pruitt, Randy Baltimore, Taylor Gannon and Jamason Wells arrived they found the house on fire. According to a police report, Baltimore quickly grabbed a fire extinguisher out of his patrol car and Wells began to spray the fire through a broken window.
The other officers attempted to enter the residence and were able to get in through a back door. They searched the house and found that there was no one inside.
By then the fire department arrived and quickly extinguished “hot spots” in the house.
Firefighters and officers found the damage to the house included a broken window, the outside window area and siding. Also a mattress, box springs and pillow were also damaged. There was an odor of what appeared to be gasoline on the mattress. There was also what appeared to be a melted plastic bottle melted into the mattress. There were also matches found.
Detective Tyler Hatfield is investigating the fire and has interviewed several individuals.

An investigation has been opened just hours after the girls basketball coach at Grundy County, Johnathan Shedd resigned.
The Grundy County Sheriff’s office confirms it is investigating missing money from the high school booster club.
According to school officials, Shedd says he resigned because of false allegations and concerns for himself and his family.
The Tennessee Comptroller’s office has been called to investigate the matter, and they and the sheriff’s department are waiting to interview Shedd.
Grundy County Sheriff Clint Shrum says a new treasurer took over in October and she is the one who reported the money missing to his office last week.
The investigation comes after parents brought a storm of complaints to the school board at the beginning of the month.
The sheriff however, says the missing money is the only criminal complaint against Shedd.

A woman from East Lincoln Street in Tullahoma found more than she expected when she got a soft drink out of a machine.
Wanda Parrill told Tullahoma Officer Carl Pyrdom on Feb. 24 that she went to the soft drink vending machine outside Piggly Wiggly on East Lincoln Street she got a drink with four bags of white crystals attached to the drink.
Tullahoma Officer Rocky Ruehling is investigating the incident.

Coffee County Raider Academy will host an academic orientation for all incoming freshmen for the 2017-2018 school year on Tuesday, March 14th from 6-8 PM.
Their academic orientation will serve as an opportunity for students and parents to receive vital registration information, tour the building, and meet with the faculty.
The Raider Academy staff looks forward to having eighth grade students and their parents from both Coffee County Middle and Westwood Middle School to join them for this informational meeting.

The City of Manchester Street Department will have the Old Tullahoma Hwy closed on Thursday 3-2-17, from Old Seminary Rd to Belmont Rd starting at 6 am until 6 pm.
The City of Manchester Street Department apologizes for any inconvenience.

” width=”300″] Photo: L-R Blake Simmons, Dale Roberson and K-9 Roccon. Also included are items confiscated.[/caption]Just before midnight on Saturday an emergency call came out for police to be on the lookout for a reckless driver on the McMinnville Highway. As the subject passed by Deputy Blake Simmons he was allegedly driving from side to side and into the median. Simmons stopped the man identified as Joseph Nekia Jackson age 42 of Linda Lane Manchester.
In the deputy’s report he said the man had slurred speech and bloodshot eyes. Simmons says Jackson was asked to take a field sobriety tests, which Simmons said in his report that Jackson refused. The deputy’s report also says that the man refused a blood test and a search warrant had to be obtained.
Simmons says that Jackson refused for his car to be searched so Manchester Officer Dale Robertson and his K-9 were called to the scene. The K-9 alerted on the vehicle and after a search of the vehicle officers allegedly located in the center console a plastic container and scales. Once the plastic container was opened allegedly found was 53.3 grams of methamphetamine, 38.2 grams of marijuana, and 99.5 2 mg Alprazolam pills. Also allegedly found were scales and a glass pipe with residue and a large amount of cash.
Jackson was charged with DUI, violation of implied consent, 3 counts of manufacturing/delivering/selling/possession of a controlled substance and unlawful drug paraphernalia uses and activities. Bond was set at $50,000 and he’ll appear in Coffee County General Sessions Court on March 13, 2017.