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Danita Sue Taylor of Tullahoma was arrested this week for forgery and counterfeit after she allegedly stole a woman’s purse.
Rose Kincade who works at Harton Regional Medical Center reported to Tullahoma Police that someone took her purse from under a desk.
The officer asked her to check her on line banking to see if there had been any purchases using her credit cards and there had been three purchases at three different convenience stores in the area. Someone reported that a female used one of the cards at the Mapo on Cedar Lane. Officers found Taylor to be in possession of the credit cards.
Taylor was a passenger in a car driven by Randall Swanson of Huntland. He admitted to helping her purchase items.
Taylor was charged with forgery/counterfeit, fraudulent use of a credit card, theft from a building and public intoxication. Her bond was set at $16,000 and she is to appear in Coffee County General Sessions Court Oct. 2.
Swanson is charged with being an accessory after the fact and his bond was set at $5,000. He is scheduled to appear in General Sessions court Oct. 2.

A Tullahoma man told police that he shoplifted so he could “go back to jail.”
On Sept. 9 James Crockett Dodson, 24 of Bragg Circle allegedly told Tullahoma Officer Derrick Derlien that he took $98 worth of beer from Food Lion because he wanted to go back to jail to finish his parole.
He was taken into custody and transported to the Coffee County Jail where he was charged with theft—shoplifting. His bond was set at $2,500 and he is scheduled to appear in Coffee County General Sessions Court on October 9.

A new study suggests that doctors in many hospitals are unnecessarily prescribing multiple antibiotics for several days when just one would do the job.
Health officials say overuse of antibiotics is helping to breed dangerous bacteria that are increasingly resistant to treatment.
Faced with an unknown infection, hospital doctors often prescribe a couple of antibiotics. But once the bug is identified, doctors are supposed to drop any unnecessary second antibiotic.
The research found that didn’t happen in three-quarters of the 500 hospitals included in the research.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the study Wednesday.

Although vehicle crashes remain the leading cause of death for teens, fewer new drivers are participating in driver education. State funding and requirements for these programs have declined over recent decades.
New research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety reveals that teens that skip driver’s ed are involved in more crashes and receive more traffic convictions compared to their peers who took drivers education.
The study also determined that teens who completed driver education not only scored higher on the driving exam, but also demonstrated modest increases in knowledge over their peers who did not take any formal training.

A federal Department of Agriculture report shows there were almost double the number of soring violations at the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration competition this year compared to 2013.
The Tennessean reports monitors found 219 violations of the Horse Protection Act during the competition, which was held over 11 days in Shelbyville. That’s compared to 110 violations noted last year.
Animal advocates say the numbers show that there is still a problem with soring, which occurs when a horse’s legs are intentionally injured to make the animal have a higher gait.
Celebration CEO Mike Inman says rules were enforced differently this year, leading to a higher number of incidents.

The Coffee County Fair is back. For 157 years the fair has preserved the past and looked toward the future. The year’s theme is “Rockin at the Fair”. This weekend’s events include:

 Saturday, September 13

5:30 PM Miss Teen Coffee County Contest

8:00 PM Fairest of the Fair Contest

Sunday, September 14

1:00 PM Baby Show – 0-6 Months

2:00 PM Baby Show – 6-12 Months

3:00 PM Baby Show – 12-18 Months

4:00 PM Baby Show – 18-24 Months

5:00 PM Toddler Show – 2-3 Years

On Tuesday night the Coffee County Commission met for the first time in 8 years without David Pennington as mayor and chairman. New County Mayor Gary Cordell was elected to the chairman’s seat.
You may remember that after the county general election in August we had a tie vote for District 14 commissioner between Missy DeFord and Lamar Wilkie. 10 new commissioners were elected in August and they along with 10 incumbents that won, had the task on Tuesday to decide who would be the person to take over District 14 after Keith Thacker lost in the May primary. After an 11-8 vote, Missy Deford was chosen as the new commissioner. DeFord brings the total to 11 new commissioners in Coffee County.

In an emergency, you can text your spouse, parents, best friend, neighbor or just about anyone else with a cellphone and ask them for help.
But in Tennessee, you can’t text 911.
According to a report in the Knoxville News Sentinel, no city or county in Tennessee currently accepts text messages to 911, even though the Federal Communications Commission has been trying to get emergency call centers to embrace text messaging, and advocates for deaf people, domestic violence victims and others have been pushing for the service for years.
The FCC took steps last month to accelerate text-to-911 service across the country. The federal agency ordered that text message providers that aren’t already making the service available must do so by the end of the year in jurisdictions that can handle such messages.

The 5th Annual Nashville 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb will be held Sunday, September 14, 2014 at William R. Snodgrass Tennessee Tower in Downtown, Nashville, Tennessee. 343 Firefighters will climb in remembrance of the 343 New York Firefighters that died 13 years ago at the Twin Towers on 9/11/01.
Manchester, Hillsboro, Tullahoma, Summitville, AEDC and others firefighters from the state will participate in the event.
The 343 Firefighters participating will wear full gear (from 60 to 80 pounds) and climb for someone specifically. Each climber will be given a badge to wear with the name and photograph of one of the FDNY firefighters killed on 9/11/01.
Each firefighter that climbs will go up 28 floors four different times to match what FDNY did on 9/11/01.