New hope is on the horizon for children suffering from chronic kidney disease, thanks to the results of a new study that, for the first time, identifies some of the factors that can lead to kidney failure. Dr. Bradley Warady of Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., is the co-principal investigator on the study, which followed nearly 500 children with chronic kidney disease over ten years. Warady says many people don’t realize that kidney disease can have a profound effect on a child’s growth and development. “Not only can you develop an inability to remove waste products and...

On Mother’s Day 2014 Manchester Police responded to a motor vehicle accident with injuries on I-24 at mile marker 110. The Fonseca family involved was traveling from their home in Chicago to a family vacation in Florida. Son Andy was flown by helicopter to Vanderbilt Hospital due to his severe injuries. Andy sustained numerous fractures in his skull and had significant bleeding on his brain. Last week the Fonseca family returned to Manchester from Chicago, to show their thanks and appreciation to first responders for their quick response, the care for their family and helping to save Andy’s...

Buffalo Wild Wings has officially confirmed that it will open a location in Tullahoma on North Jackson Street! The new restaurant will open to the left of Office Max this fall. The restaurant’s menu includes over 21 signature sauces and seasonings, as well as made-to-order salads, wraps, flatbreads, and burgers. A building permit valued at $415,000 was issued to the property owner last month. Buffalo Wild Wings announced that it would open 85 NEW restaurants this year, and already has 1,083 locations in all 50...

In a follow-up to a story we brought last August; Troy David Rogers was arrested August 2014 for having unlawful sexual contact with two girls under the age of 13 at a home day care operated by his wife. Rogers entered into a plea agreement on attempted aggravated sexual battery charges. According to Assistant District Attorney Jason Ponder, Rogers pleaded guilty earlier this year to attempted aggravated sexual battery and sentenced to four years in the Tennessee Department of Corrections. “The families of the children asked for a settlement,” the ADA stated recently. According to indictments issued by the...

A Bedford County man is charged with TennCare fraud involving doctor shopping, or using TennCare to go to multiple providers to obtain controlled substances. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has announced the arrest of Samuel L. Harris, Jr., 40, of Shelbyville. He is charged with three counts of fraudulently using TennCare to obtain controlled substances by doctor shopping, which is using TennCare as payment for the prescriptions, office visit or both. Bedford County Police assisted in this arrest. TennCare fraud is a Class E felony, carrying a sentence of up to two years in prison per charge. District...

If a woman in Tennessee gets pregnant while not covered by insurance, she is not eligible to enroll in health coverage under the Affordable Care Act outside of the open-enrollment period. Pregnancy is not considered a life-changing event by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – while giving birth or adopting a child are. Ashley Coffield, chief executive of Planned Parenthood – Greater Memphis Region, said that needs to change. “Pregnancy is a life-changing event, and access to health care is incredibly important for women to access prenatal care,” she said. “We would like the Department of...

The John Willis Memorial Scholarship Fund has received a $2,500 donation from Coffee County farmer Johnny DeBerry and America’s Farmers Grow Communities, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund. The donation will help the organization award an educational scholarship.  “I am honored to give the $2,500 donation to the John Willis Memorial Scholarship Fund,” said DeBerry. “I respected John Willis as a young man and I think of him quite often.  I like to keep his memory alive and this scholarship allows for that.”  The John Willis Memorial Scholarship Fund provides college scholarships to sophomore, junior and senior agriculture majors. This scholarship...

A Coffee County Circuit Court jury needed a little over an hour to determine that a Tullahoma man was guilty of abducting and raping a Tullahoma woman Jan. 1, 2013. The jury of eight women and four men found Billy Joe Nelson, 33, guilty of rape, carjacking, robbery, aggravated kidnapping with bodily injury and aggravated kidnapping with the threat of deadly weapon. According to Coffee County Assistant District Attorney Jason Ponder, Nelson faces a sentence of 15 to 55 years in prison for the conviction. He is to be sentenced June 30. Nelson was charged with abducting the woman...