A Kentucky woman was arrested last Thursday on a charge of bigamy. 43 year old Joan Adele Harmon of Elkton, Kentucky was indicted by the July term of the Coffee County Grand Jury on the charge. The indictment alleges that she claimed to be married to an individual other than her husband. After her arrest, she was booked into the Coffee County Jail but later posted a $10,000 bond and was released. She will appear in Coffee County Circuit Court to be arraigned on the charge. The case against Harmon was investigated by Manchester Officer Bryan...

An emergency call came out at 4:30pm Friday afternoon for a fire in the North Coffee area. It was reported that a barn was on fire and several animals were inside. A couple of North Coffee volunteer firefighters and neighbors helped retrieve the livestock from the barn. All the animals were saved. The barn became fully engulfed as North Coffee firefighters worked hard for a period of time to contain the heavy smoke and flames. The barn was full of hay and was a total...

A group of Tullahoma High School students enrolled in welding classes made bicycle racks for three local elementary schools. The Tullahoma News reports the schools needed the bicycle racks and they would have cost $400 each to purchase. The Tullahoma High School Career and Technical Education welding classes were able to make all three racks for just $125 in materials. And the welding students got to hone their skills on a useful project. Teacher Jeremy Amacher said the racks took a while to build as students worked at their own pace and finished them in steps. The students were...

Harton Regional Medical Center recently opened its new 14-bed Critical Care Unit (CCU). The 14-bed all private rooms unit is on the third floor of the patient tower replacing the hospital’s eight-bed intensive care unit (ICU) that opened in the late 1960s. For those using the facility, you’ll find larger waiting room and a new family consultation room. The expansion also includes a central nursing station, nursing workstations outside of each patient room, new equipment in each of those rooms, and a new cardiac monitoring system for the...

Burning a cleaner fire in that woodstove or fireplace during the winter months is helpful to the health of residents across the state – and also to the state’s climate, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. A good way to burn the hottest and most efficient fire is to use only dry, seasoned wood, said Alison Davis, senior adviser in the EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. “The reason that this is important is that dry wood burns more completely,” she said, “and that benefits you in two ways: One, you get more energy out of the...

The USDA inspection numbers for The Celebration Walking Horse show in Shelbyville, indicate that 52 percent of swab tests were positive. A total of 125 swab samples were taken, with 65 showing positive for foreign substances, USDA data shows. Not every horse is inspected. For blood tests, five of 103 horses tested positive, according to USDA data. For the 2014 show, The Celebration implemented a Veterinary Advisory Committee to oversee what it called independent testing. The VAC inspections had nothing to do with the USDA inspections. During the show, 131 horses were radiographed and the VAC found no improper...