Average retail gasoline prices in Tennessee have risen 2.3 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.66/g yesterday. This compares with the national average that has increased 2.3 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.86/g, according to gasoline price website TennesseeGasPrices.com. All prices are based on 87 octane. Including the change in gas prices in Tennessee during the past week, prices yesterday were 27.6 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 17.4 cents per gallon higher than a month ago. The national average has increased 15.8 cents per gallon during...

Dozens of people gathered to see Kirk Rutland honored in a ceremony at AEDC recently. Rutland, a Navy employee and technical director of the Test Systems Sustainment Division at AEDC, received the Navy’s Superior Civilian Award for Valor for his heroism after a vehicle wreck June 17 in Manchester. Rutland was cutting grass on the day the wreck happened near his home. An SUV traveling on Gowen Road left the road, hit a tree and rolled back onto the pavement. The woman driving the vehicle was able to get out, but her 8-year-old son was pinned inside as the...

Drivers headed into the Smokies at the Gatlinburg park entrance will need to negotiate a construction site this week. A gas line that feeds Gatlinburg is being repaired on U.S. 441 near Husky Grove Road and traffic headed from Pigeon Forge to Gatlinburg will have only one lane available to get around it. So if you are going to visit be aware of this work being...

BABY SHOW Months: 0-6 BOY: Jeramiah Xavier Stewart GIRL: Reese Ellen Williams 6-12 BOY: Trevon Swann GIRL: Kayda Blake Ferrel 12-18 BOY: Jayce Floyd GIRL: Emma Morgan 16-24 BOY: Jonathan Levi Higgins GIRL: Elizabeth Sadler TODDLER SHOW BOY: Cole Womack Williams GIRL: Lydia Claire Lanier TWINS 6-12 Corrine & Carly Davis 12-18 Lyndon & Lynlie Thammaruth Tuesday, September 18 5:00 PM Wool and Woollies Show 6:00 PM Junior Miss Coffee County Contest Age 6-8 7:00 PM Amateur Karaoke Contest 7:30 PM Junior Miss Coffee County Contest Age 9-12 Ride Special $18 Hand Stamp 5:00 PM Till...

Miss Teen Coffee County 4th # 9 Christen Elise Welch —- Chris & Donna Welch 3rd #2 Lydia Prince —— Larry & Brenda Prince 2nd #18 Hanna Ruth Reavis —– Susan & the late David Reavis 1st #12 Kayla Ellen McCormick —– Kem McCormick & Martha Logan Winner # 13 Gracie Alyn Richardson —- John & Shandra Richardson Fairest of the Fair 4th Farrar Jean Ford —– Joe & Jean Marie Ford 3rd Lauren Rena’e Morris —— Tim & Dana Morris 2nd Summer Carol-Ann May —- Milton & Tammy May 1st Meghan Pittman —- Shane & Jennifer Pittman Winner...

Manchester Police Investigator Butch Stewart arrested Chastity N. Richardson from Decherd for taking over $2,000 in items from the Manchester Wal-Mart. A person reported to police that they had seen the photos on the WMSR radio web page and identified the female. Richardson had been arrested in Chattanooga on September 11, 2012. The woman was held up in a house on Spring St in Decherd. After Stewart received the information about who she was and where she lived, he went to the residence with Decherd Police and Franklin County Sheriff’s office and the Tennessee Department of Children services. The...

As reported on Saturday, someone has been forging bad checks in the area, and Manchester Police were looking for help identifying the suspect. The subject has written checks at local stores including J&K Market using forgery of the signature and using a fake ID. According to police the man was picked up on other charges and was in the Coffee County Jail. Charges on the bad checks will come...

One man has been arrested on arson charges, and investigators are continuing to investigate another fire. John Matthew Lee, 19, of Marietta, Georgia, is being held in the Coffee County Jail under a $25,000 bond after being arrested by Sheriff’s Investigator Sgt. Danny Ferrell for burning a mobile home. According to the investigator, Lee admitted to throwing gasoline into a broken window of a mobile home on General Lee Drive located in Lakewood Park and setting it on fire. According to the investigator, when deputies and firefighters arrived at the fire, they found it burning. During his investigation, Sgt....