The Manchester City School Board wants to settle lawsuit action with the City of Manchester and the Coffee County government. The school board is offering a settlement with Manchester that would stop legal action. The Manchester school system would drop the $40,000 that it says that the city owes in trade-off for the city paying all future taxes for liquor-by-the drink owed the school system. In the proposal to the county would pay the system $500,000 over a 10 year period, beginning in 2018, in $50,000 yearly increments and the county could not raise taxes to pay for the...

A man wanted for robbing a Tullahoma man was arrested in Lincoln County and now faces charges there and here. In addition to the robbery charges the man also faces charges for burglary in Tullahoma. Zedekiah Cates Wooten of Tullahoma told Officer Sam Campbell that a white male approached him in the parking lot off of Wall Street Christmas night. The man asked him if he was okay and when he said yes the man then allegedly pulled out a pistol and stuck it to Wooten’s neck. He ordered Wooten to get into his own vehicle and empty his...

Motorists traveling for the year-end holidays saw the cheapest Christmas day gasoline since 2008. The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded was $2.18 in Tennessee. These prices broke the previous lows set in 2009 of $2.45. “Low gas prices are helping consumers save more than $21 for a tank of gasoline compared to the highs earlier this year ($3.70), and that has a positive effect on holiday shopping and travel,” said Mark Jenkins, spokesman, AAA – The Auto Club Group. “The new year will bring new expectations for even cheaper gasoline. Prices could drop another 3-6 cents...

The Manchester Police Department is asking for the public’s help. Authorities need to talk to a female that was inside Wal-Mart in Manchester on December 21, 2014 at 4:29 PM. A picture of this particular woman was taken by a Wal-Mart security camera. The female in the picture is wanted for questioning concerning an on-going theft case. If you recognize this person or have any information that could help, please contact Manchester Police Investigator Jackie Matheny at...

So far 11 children nationwide, have died from the flu since September, and the flu season is far from over. Now it’s called an outbreak. In Knoxville, Flu-like symptoms reportedly caused a Health and Rehab Center to temporarily lock down last weekend. In addition, two schools systems closed for a day this month due to widespread illness. The flu outbreak in Tennessee for the week ending Dec. 13 was still considered regional, one step below widespread, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Influenza surveillance report. The Tennessee Department of Health says there have been three pediatric...

The latest report on how well states are funding tobacco prevention and cessation efforts has Tennessee ranked in the back of the pack at 36th in the nation. According to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Tennessee will take in more than $400 million in tobacco revenue this year, while spending only $5 million to prevent children from starting and to help smokers quit. The group’s spokesman, John Schachter, says that’s less than 7 percent of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendation. “There’s a lot of work to be done in Tennessee to be able to bring the...