Get Fit! Tullahoma is pleased to announce that they are planning for the fourth Community Health Fair and Fitness Expo Saturday, March 14, from 9 am to noon at Northgate Mall.  Admission is free and visitors will find fitness and nutrition tips, health screenings and much more. Please join in and learn how you can move more, eat well and get fit. The purpose of Get Fit! Tullahoma is to encourage more healthy and active lifestyles among Tullahoma and Coffee County citizens. Unfortunately, Coffee County citizens rank 38 out of 95 counties in our level of fitness (countyhealthrankings.org). More...

A Tennessee Bureau of Investigation report says there were more Tennessee residents charged with driving under the influence in 2014 than 2013. The report, which is submitted to lawmakers, says law enforcement agencies arrested 29,544 around the state for the offense in 2014. That’s 639 more people arrested for DUI than in the previous year. Officials say in some cases, the increase is due to new techniques that include analytic software to predict when and where drunken drivers might crash and focusing more efforts around establishments that serve alcohol. Manchester Police Chief Mark Yother says his officers made 63 DUI...

Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves says scammers are back at work in the area. A number of individuals across the county are getting calls from an individual who claims to be from the sheriff’s department and that he has a warrant for their arrest for various things. He then tells his intended victim that they can avoid being booked into jail if they send money via a Green Dot credit card. Graves stated that these calls are definitely SCAMS, please do not fall for this. The sheriff added that this time scammers are using actual deputies’ names. Call authorities...

Motlow College nursing graduates have once again exceeded the state and national pass rate on the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) for registered nurses, according to Pat Hendrix, interim director of nursing at the College. Motlow’s 2014 nursing graduate pass rate was 96.92 percent, while the state average was 87.44 percent and the national average was 81.79 percent. Sixty-three of Motlow’s 65 graduates in 2014 passed the test. While the state average is one of the highest in the nation, Motlow’s 2014 NCLEX pass rate was the highest of all the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) Associate Degree in...

Those Tennesseans who have resolved to make a difference this year are being encouraged to consider becoming mentors to young people. There are a variety of mentoring programs in cities statewide that match at-risk children with caring adults, but many more youths are in need of strong role models. Sarah Beatty, director of events and communications with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee, says these relationships really can have a positive influence. “Children most commonly in our program improve in their scholastic competence, but one of the forgotten areas people don’t think about is children’s attitudes toward risk...

Haven of Hope, an area shelter for victims of domestic abuse, is seeking volunteers to work with its sexual assault program. Volunteers must be 21 years of age with the availability for on-call shifts who can attend regularly scheduled meetings and assist victims to the hospital. Potential volunteers should be able to work in a crisis situation and be able to support victims during medical exams and when giving their reports to police. For more information, call 728-1133. If you are in danger, please use a safe computer or call 911. Local Crisis Line is 1-800-435-7739 for Coffee, Moore,...

Three Kentucky men, Alphonso Mucker, Michael Tompkins and Christopher Graham were arrested on drug charges after a traffic stop on Interstate 24 in Coffee County. Officials with the Tennessee Highway Patrol said a vehicle was stopped last week for speeding in a construction zone on Interstate 24 near mile marker 115. 27-year-old Mucker was driving the vehicle and according to reports was apparently behaving strangely and told a state trooper the men were traveling from Georgia back to Kentucky. He denied officials consent to search the vehicle. The trooper found out that Tompkins, age 37, and 31-year-old Graham, who...