A Tullahoma man is free on bond after being charged with rape of a 14-year-old girl. 18-year-old Trevor Castile is charged with having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl. According to warrants obtained by Tullahoma Investigator Harry Conway, the girl’s father returned home and found Castile in his daughter’s bedroom with Castile clothes in floor. The girl allegedly admitted to her father that she and Castile have had sexual...

A $40,000 appropriation to get a matching grant to repair Tullahoma Regional Airport’s northwest taxiway and install lights has been approved by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, but Alderman Jimmy Blanks questioned how much good the overall community will benefit from the effort. Blanks asked why the city should chip in $40,000 to go toward a matching that could be interpreted by some as going toward “just people who own planes.” Alderman Mike Norris said the funding is about economic development, and with a 95 percent-to-5-percent funding mechanism — with the Tennessee Aeronautics Division paying the greater share...

District Attorney General Mike Dunavant says several Tennessee walking horse owners will be investigated to determine whether they knew their horses were being abused. Last week, trainer Jackie McConnell was sentenced to three years’ probation, fined $75,000 and ordered to perform 300 hours of community service for violating the federal Horse Protection Act. He still faces 17 state misdemeanor charges related to soring, or illegally injuring a horse’s legs to enhance its high-stepping gait. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that affidavits in the state cases claim that owners witnessed some of the abuse at McConnell’s stable. Dunavant said...

Representatives from Arnold Engineering Development Complex’s (AEDC) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) center recently visited the Coffee County Central High School Air Force Junior ROTC (AFJROTC) to loan CyberPatriot V laptops for their CyberPatriot V team. CyberPatriot V is a national high school cyber defense competition created to inspire high school students toward careers in cybersecurity or other STEM disciplines critical to the nation’s future. AEDC’s STEM center is a sponsor for the high school’s CyberPatriot V team. Michael Glennon, AEDC engineering and technical management director, and Cameron Liner, AEDC aeropropulsion test information systems manager, are mentors for...

We have a follow up to a story we brought yesterday. One teenager died and a second one remains in Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville after a single vehicle crash Sunday morning around 3:20 a.m. off of Highway 130. Nicholas Beasley, 18, is in stable condition recovering from his injuries. Tyrin Rippy, age 15, of Tullahoma was killed in early morning crash. Rippy’s funeral services are incomplete at this time but will be held at J.A. Welton and Sons Funeral Home in Tullahoma. Tullahoma Police Officer Sgt. Robert Weaver is continuing his investigation into the crash. Rippy was a...

Two people in their 70s and two children under the age of 10 died in a house fire in Bedford County late Sunday night. The fire occurred at a home on Kingdom Road around 11 p.m. The victims have been identified as 72-year-old Leon McClaran, Molly McClaren, 70, Chloe Pope, 9, and 7-year-old Gage Daniel. The deceased children, who attended Community Elementary School in Unionville, TN, were the couple’s step-grandchildren, according to family members. Bedford County Sheriff Randall Boyce said he believed the home was a two-story house that collapsed into the...

Several thousand “Warrior Dash” enthusiasts made their way to Manchester on Saturday. What is Warrior Dash? It is a mud crawling, fire leaping, and extreme run over a 3.15-mile intense course. The event was on the ground of Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Promoters say the “Dash” included a climb over giant strands of hay bales, stampede through the scrap yard of rust auto wreckages, hurdle over barricades, crawl under barbed wire, thread through tangle ropes, dive into darkness, climb over cargo nets and leap through fire. Warrior Dash was set for Nashville after being held in Manchester but...