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Health Insurance Costs Going Up
Many HealthCare.gov customers will face higher costs next year, the Obama administration acknowledged Thursday in a report that shows average premiums rising modestly. However, officials said millions of consumers who are currently enrolled can mitigate the financial consequences if they are willing to shop around for another plan in a marketplace that’s becoming more competitive. Premiums for the most popular type of plan will go up an average of 5 percent in the 35 states where the federal government is running the health insurance exchanges, said a report from the Health and Human Services Department. However, one person WMSR...
McMinnville Woman Dies After Falling 12 Stories
The wife of a Warren County attorney died over the weekend after reportedly falling from her condominium balcony in Daytona Beach, Fla. According to the Daytona Beach Shores Public Safety Department, 60 year old Deborah Smith of McMinnville fell from her 12th-story balcony Sunday evening. She was the wife of well-known Warren County attorney Bernard K. Smith. Reports indicate Mrs. Smith was decorating her balcony with Christmas ornaments when she...
State Reports Four Traffic Fatalities Over The Thanksgiving Holiday Period
The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security announced the preliminary number of four traffic fatalities statewide during the 2014 Thanksgiving Holiday period, which began on midnight Wednesday, Nov. 26 and ended at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 30. If this year’s preliminary figures remain, it would mark the lowest number of vehicular deaths during the Thanksgiving holiday period since the seven traffic deaths in 1983. In 2013, there were 12 vehicular deaths during the 120-hour Thanksgiving holiday. The department also reported that none of this year’s holiday traffic fatalities occurred in alcohol-related crashes. Two of the individuals killed...
TEA Wants Raises For Teachers
The state’s largest teachers’ union is calling on Gov. Bill Haslam to increase teachers’ pay by 6 percent this year. The Tennessee Education Association issued a news release on Tuesday, three days before the governor is to hear a budget presentation from the state Education Department. Haslam is holding budget hearings with state agencies this week. The TEA said it would ultimately like to see a salary increase of 11.3 percent for teachers; 6 percent this year and the rest phased in over two to three years. The group said the increase could be built into the state’s school...
Open House At The Sheriff’s Department To Help The Needy Is Saturday
Each year Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves and his staff provides toys to over 500 children and food baskets to 250 elderly, handicapped and needy families in Coffee County at Christmas. This is a very important project and can only be accomplished with community support as we provide this service strictly through donations and charity events such as the Christmas Open House. Coffee Co. Sheriff’s Department Christmas for Charity Open House will be held this Saturday from 9am-Noon at the Sheriff’s Department. Please come and bring a non-perishable food item or unwrapped item or unwrapped toy and enjoy some...
Tullahoma’s Jackson Street Closing For Christmas Parade
Tullahoma Police Department Lieutenant Ray Higginbotham advises that motorists should take alternate routes starting Friday, December 5 at 5:00p.m. to allow for the Stan McNabb 58th Tullahoma Christmas Parade to proceed north on Jackson Street. At 5:00 p.m. the Tullahoma Police Department close Jackson Street to northbound traffic at Carroll Street as the parade entries line up. Volney, Decherd, Warren, and Lauderdale Streets will also close at Jackson at 5:00 p.m. At approximately 6:15 p.m., Jackson Street will be closed at Lincoln and Jack Farrar Lane, and all streets in between: Big Springs, Wilson Avenue, Grundy, Moore, Grizzard, Hogan,...
Tullahoma Fire Department Collects Donations for Toys for Tots
This holiday season, let’s give back. Join the City of Tullahoma Fire Department as they once again collect new, unwrapped toys and distribute them as Christmas gifts to less fortunate children in the community. “This year we are off to a great start. They’ve had local businesses and individuals who have helped our effort with sizeable donations,” said Chief Richard Shasteen. “This program is a message of hope to children. I appreciate the continued community support this program has received over the years,” said Chief Richard Shasteen. New, unwrapped toys or monetary donations may be dropped off at: •...
Manchester Police Asking For The Public’s Help
Manchester Police is asking for the public’s help with a theft at a local store. Police are looking for a female subject that is wanted for questioning involving a theft at Walgreen’s in Manchester on Nov. 24th. In surveillance pictures the female is seen with male subjects and they may or may not have been with the female. Please call the Manchester Police Department Crime Investigation Division and speak to Investigator Bryan Eldridge if you have any information that could help at...
