A Murfreesboro Police Officer is being investigated by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. The case was confirmed by the TBI at 6:00, Monday evening. Special Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have arrested and charged a Sergeant of the Murfreesboro Police Department in an ongoing child pornography investigation. During the course of a recent investigation, TBI Agents developed information which led to Kevin Wayne Dunn as an individual who had distributed images consistent with child pornography. then booked him into the Rutherford County Jail on a $750,000 bond. Sgt. Dunn has been employed since November, 1998.(WGNS...

The Coffee County Sheriff’s Department will begin accepting names for food and toy boxes on November, 30, 2015. There is a change this year in the way names will be accepted. This year you’ll be required to come to the sheriff’s department in person. There are three requirements to be put on the list for boxes and or toys; Must have proof of identification, birth certificate of each child and proof of residency, such as utility bill or something similar. If you have any questions call Shannon at 931-570-4409 or Lesley at...

According to Manchester Assistant Police Chief Adam Floied, two people wanted in connection with a Covington, Georgia homicide/robbery were arrested Saturday in Manchester. Floied says, an alert clerk at a motel in Manchester had seen an alert issued out of Chattanooga about the murder and called 911. “The clerk saw them leaving and when he saw the license tag on the car he knew it was the one that Chattanooga had put out”. Floied saw the 2002 Honda Accord and followed it to the Beech Grove area where he stopped the vehicle. He said that the pair were arrested without...

Monday afternoon at approximately 12:35pm, Manchester Fire and Rescue had a report of structure fire at the Park Hotel on Hwy 41. Once initial crews arrived on scene, they began attacking the fire. A call was made for off duty firefighters to report to scene, as the southwest end of the hotel was pretty well involved. An engine company was requested from Tullahoma Fire for back fill and additional manpower also. Once additional manpower arrived on scene, crews were able to more aggressively attack the fire containing it to the area where it began. Crews then performed overhaul and salvage operations to...

Thieves are now looking beyond your wallet and personal information to your children’s. The Identity Theft Resource Center reports a 300 percent increase in calls about child identity theft in 2014. With the holidays around the corner and scammers working overtime, the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance Consumer Affairs Division is reminding folks about the potential risk to their children. The department’s spokesman Kevin Walters explains. “We want parents to understand that their kids are at risk just as well as the parents’ identity are at risk,” says Walters. “Scammers don’t discriminate based on age and we want...

Jeremy Namer Dalton of Hillsboro was arrested by Coffee County authorities on Thursday Nov. 19 after he was found to be in possession of a methamphetamine lab and products used to produce the drug. Dalton, 32, of 4435 Old Airport Road, Hillsboro was charged with reckless endangerment, tampering with or fabricating evidence, destruction of evidence and intent to manufacture methamphetamines. According to a report by Coffee County Sheriff’s Investigator James Sherrill, a search warrant was served at Dalton’s residence after they had received information of possible methamphetamine production. When officers arrived at the residence, Sherrill went to a shed...