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On Friday, Manchester officers responded the Save a Lot parking area on the Hillsboro Blvd in reference to a suspicious person in a vehicle. When police arrived an officer located Sheri Lynn Agnor in a van belonging Total Graphics. In the arrest warrant, after making contact the Agnor, she told the officer it was not her van and stated she was cold and got in the van. The owner of the van said she did not have permission to be in his van.
According to police warrant, while the officer were checking information Agnor kept sticking her hands beside her in what he believed was an attempt to hide something, when he asked her to show him her hands she came up with a hawk bill knife and came out of the van aggressively toward the officer, she finally obeyed commands and dropped the knife.
Sheri Lynn Agnor age 43 of Mt Juliet is currently on state probation for drug charges. She was charged with burglary, aggravated assault and illegal possession of a weapon. Her bond was set at $32,500 and has a court date of Feb. 16, 2016.

Subpoenas are being issued to a superintendent and principal to testify in a hearing for three officials at a Tennessee high school facing charges of failing to report child sex abuse involving basketball players.
A spokesperson for the Hamilton County District Attorney’s office, confirmed Monday subpoenas would go out to Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Rick Smith, assistant superintendent Lee McDade, secondary operations director Steve Holmes and Ooltewah High principal Jim Jarvis.
A Feb. 15 hearing is scheduled for Ooltewah basketball coach Andre Montgomery, assistant coach Karl Williams and athletic director Allard Nayardley, who face charges of failing to report child sex abuse. They are suspended without pay.
Three juvenile players have been charged with sexual assault of a teammate.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press first reported the subpoenas.

Is your family TNREADY? Coffee County Raider Academy will host a TNREADY parent night for its students and their families to provide vital information regarding the new TNREADY testing expectations, useful tips on how to prepare your child at home, important dates, and available resources. Dinner will be provided for students and their family.
Coffee County Raider Academy’s TNREADY Family night that will take place this upcoming Thursday, January 28 from 6-8 PM. Dinner from 6-6:45pm, 6:45-7pm is instruction time, course subject meeting from 7pm-7:35pm and 7:35pm-8pm will be question and answer time.
For information contact the school.

Beautiful snow began falling late Friday morning in Coffee County. It was the first snowfall of 2016. Coffee County Emergency Management Agency Director Allen Lendley told WMSR News that most of Coffee County received 4-4.5 inches of snow. Some listeners in the northern part of the county reported up to 5.5 inches.
Local law enforcement reports that there were over 170 weather related accidents on Coffee County roadways.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol says there were numerous crashes on the several miles of interstate in Coffee County. State numbers show that at least 2 people died in weather related wrecks. One in Knox County and the other in Carter County.

Coffee County Circuit Court Judge Vanessa A. Jackson will issue a written finding this week on whether the DNA evidence collected in the Thomas Colucci murder investigation is vital to the defense of alleged conspirator Connie Sanders King.
And if so, whether possible degradation of that evidence is cause for dismissal.
King has been charged with first-degree murder in the 2012 death of Colucci, of Manchester, her fiancé.
Defense attorney Christina S. Stanford said in last week’s motion hearing that DNA evidence collected from the scene of Colucci’s murder, along with additional samples later collected from beneath King’s fingernails, is key to supporting King’s statement that on the day of the murder she was attacked by her estranged husband Troy King and a second, unidentified assailant in the home she shared with Colucci.
According to Stanford’s motion to dismiss, the evidence, collected in November 2012, was not tested by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) until September 2014. At that time, the bureau reported that the samples, then nearly two years old, were either insufficient or too degraded to render specific details about the DNA profile or profiles discovered.
District Attorney General Craig Northcott begged to differ. Even if the DNA evidence had been sufficient to identify King’s assailants, he said, such identification would have done more to implicate either Troy King (who has already confessed to the assault on his wife) or an unknown third party than it would have done to prove King’s innocence.
“The state’s position is that Troy King attacked her. We agree. It’s not an issue. So we don’t need DNA to establish who it is.”
Even if there was a third party to be identified, Northcott said, “It doesn’t get her off the hook. Our theory is that she was working with Troy King and that’s why the whole thing was staged. Even if there was a third party involved in that, it doesn’t change our theory.” (Tullahoma News)

On Friday the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office received information that a woman from Sewanee, Tn. area was missing. According to Sheriff’s Office personnel, 74 year-old Cindy J. Tate was last seen at her residence, 80 Chevy Ln. Sewanee, Tennessee.
It was reported that Mrs. Tate suffers from mental illness and may have been disoriented.
Later in the day authorities reported good news that they had located Cindy J. Tate and she was transported to a hospital for medical evaluation.

The Tennessee State Board of Education launched a review website, https://apps.tn.gov/tcas/, to collect public feedback on Tennessee’s grade K-12 social studies standards. This is the first of two public review periods for the social studies standards.
The social studies standards set grade-specific instructional standards that exemplify what students are expected to know and be able to do by the end of a given grade or course. The current social studies standards were approved in 2013 and first implemented in the 2014-15 school year.
This highly transparent and comprehensive review process is an opportunity for every Tennessean to log in online, review each specific social studies standard by grade level, and provide comments and make suggestions for changes.
The public review website will remain active until April 30, 2016.

A Tullahoma man was booked into the Coffee County Jail under a $250,000 bond for being a fugitive from justice.
Timothy Wooten, 43, of Tullahoma Highway was arrested after he was stopped for a light law violation.
After Tullahoma Police Officer Tommy Elliott checked with dispatchers to see if he had any warrants pending, he learned that he was wanted by Madison County, Alabama for violation of probation.
He was then booked into the Coffee County Jail. He now faces extradition to Alabama.