Lamar Alexander is showing little interest in taking up Joe Carr on a debate challenge in advance of the Republican Senate primary in August. Alexander told reporters in Nashville on Monday that there are seven candidates running for the GOP nomination and that it would be difficult to schedule them all to appear at once. Among the challengers, only Carr and Memphis radio station owner George Flinn have shown significant past campaign spending. Alexander wouldn’t say whether he would insist on debating all of the candidates. Alexander, a former two-term Tennessee governor, is running for a third term in...

Thunder Radio along with various sponsors began saluting our local troops this week with announcements on the radio. The men and women serving our country so bravely deserve to be honored so that is why this salute is being done. Various people submitted information about their loved one or friend and now we at Thunder Radio along with our outstanding sponsors are thanking them for what they do for the citizens of the United States. You can now go online to www.wmsrradio.com and watch a video on Thunder TV about this program. You’ll be able to see pictures and...

People are finding a new way to get high and it has found its way to Manchester. A new very strong form of marijuana (DABS) was recently found by Manchester Police at Bonnaroo. DABS are doses of cannabis concentrates that used to mostly refer to butane hash oil. The concentrate can be up to 80% THC, the active psychoactive compound in cannabis, but usually range between 50 and 75%. Three people were arrested at Bonnaroo for possession of DABS. DABS are mostly smoked through certain types of electronic cigarettes or a Bong because they can heat the drug. DABS...

AAA Travel projects 41 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the July 4th holiday weekend. That would be a 1.9 percent increase from the 40.3 million who traveled last year. The majority of travelers will be celebrating with a road trip, with more than eight in ten choosing to travel by automobile. The Independence Day travel period is defined as Wednesday, July 2nd to Sunday, July 6th. In Tennessee, more than 742,000 people are projected to travel by car during the holiday...

One of the bigger questions going on around Coffee County is whether there will be a property tax increase, a wheel tax or some type of combination to fund current projects and everyday day needs of the county? The answer is no one knows at this point. At this week’s county commission meeting a discussion took place about if commissioners would place a referendum on the November ballot for a wheel tax. Commissioners delayed action and have until August 21 to decide, which is after the county election to be held on August 7. In other action the commission...

Two inmates from the Coffee County Jail walked away from a work detail on Thursday afternoon. According to Sheriff Steve Graves Cory Keele and Lillard Presley were working at the new Coffee County Middle School on Woodbury Highway in Manchester when they walked away. The sheriff stated that the pair had been working at the school this summer but they ran away around 2:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon. They were spotted running to a cornfield near the school. Deputies who were searching for the pair say that they found some tire tracks along the edge of the cornfield. Neither is...