Early Monday morning Tullahoma officers responded to 935 East Grizzard Street in response to a domestic situation. According to a warrant, police arrived at the scene and spoke to a female that said she and Dylan Michael Jones had a verbal argument. She claimed that he spit in her in her face and threw her out the door. Then according to the warrant, Jones then barricaded himself in the home with three small children. Police say Jones was screaming at them and refusing to comply. The warrant says officers were forced to break in the home and the subject...

On Friday night (July 17) around 7pm a 1999 Dodge minivan and a 2008 Toyota 4 Runner were traveling west on Interstate 24 near mile-marker 104 in Coffee County. The Dodge van driven by Courtney Bievenue age 28 of Monteagle was in the right lane and the Toyota driven by Grace Benedict age 25 of Beechgrove was in the left lane. The van’s left rear tire went down and caused the driver to lose control. The Bievenue vehicle struck the Benedict Toyota in the right rear corner causing it to spin. The Dodge van traveled down the median and...

Alana Brown, an emergency medical services (EMS) instructor at Motlow College, was recently recognized with the Carla Kelly Merit award from the Tennessee Emergency Medical Services Education Association (TEMSEA). The Carla Kelly Merit award is given for excellence in EMS instruction to a veteran EMS instructor in Tennessee. “Alana is a valued member of our team and has done great things since she started teaching with us,” said Drew Hooker, EMS program director at Motlow. “I am very proud to know that we have this level of teaching in our emergency medical technician (EMT) and advanced EMT programs.” Brown,...

Haley Vincent, 20, of Kingdom Road, Unionville was arrested July 18 for the theft of property from Wal-Mart on North Jackson Street in Tullahoma. Store personnel allegedly observed the woman placing items in her purse. When Officer Tommy Elliott searched Vincent’s purse he allegedly found several end caps to hypodermic needles. He also allegedly found a small clear baggie containing what was believed to be methamphetamines. When the officer ask Vincent if she had any narcotics in her vehicle, according to a police report, she said that there were. The officer searched the vehicle and found several hypodermic needles...

Management of the Waffle House on North Jackson Street in Tullahoma reported to police the theft of services. On July 18 Charles Watson of the restaurant reported to Officer Mickey Blanton that a white male refused to pay his $20.95 tab. The restaurant supervisor reported to the officer that the man and a female companion went to the register and the man told the cashier that “too bad for you. I have no money.” The couple then left the business without paying, but the man left his wallet behind with his identification in it. When the officer looked inside...

Tennessee is receiving national attention for having an “unhealthy” democracy. That’s the assessment of a national report released by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, which awards letter grades in three categories. The report, titled Health of State Democracies, awarded the Volunteer State an F in Ballot Accessibility. Report co-author Lauren Harmon says democracy isn’t, and must never be, a partisan issue. “These are common sense things most people should agree on, unless their ultimate goal is in fact to impact the outcome of elections,” she says, “either by making it harder to vote, or making...