An early Saturday morning two-car crash on I-24 left two people from Manchester dead. According to a report by Tennessee Highway Patrolman Jason Boles, a 2005 Chrysler Sebring driven by Carlean R Ramcharran, 36, of Expressway Drive in Manchester was traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes of I-24. Vehicle two, a 1998 Plymouth van driven by Christopher C Pack, 36, of Gruett Rd of Manchester was traveling east in the eastbound fast lane of I-24. Ramcharran’s vehicle struck Pack’s van head-on, causing both vehicles to rotate clockwise coming to rest on the interstate. Both drivers were pronounced dead on...

The Coffee County Sheriff’s Department is looking Mark Andrew Cope. The 31-year-old walked away from working on a work detail in Manchester. Cope weighs approximately 150 lbs. Blond hair, Blue eyes. Contact the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department if you have any information on the whereabouts of Mark Andrew Cope call...

Lawsuits claiming that BellSouth owes millions in unpaid fees to ten 911 districts in Tennessee can move forward. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports a federal judge this week declined a request by BellSouth to dismiss suits filed by 911 districts in Hamilton, Blount, Bedford, Bradley, Coffee, Cheatham, Giles, Roane, Franklin and Knox counties. The suits claim that Bellsouth did not collect certain fees that it is required to pass along to 911 operations. They claim the utility’s failure to collect was intentional, done in order to give Bell South a competitive advantage when bidding on county phone service....

A 17-year-old Grundy High School student was killed in a motorcycle crash Wednesday evening. It happened on Colony Rd. in Grundy County. Investigating Trooper Carl Seagroves reported that James “Matt” Reuhling from Gruetli Laager was killed when he lost control of his motorcycle. Reuhling was wearing his helmet when he failed to negotiate a curve. Trooper Seagroves reported that Reuhling’s Yamaha traveled about 200 feet along a ditch before slamming into a...

The annual Tennessee Walking Horse Celebration in Shelbyville is seeing the most intense horse inspections in its 74-year history. The Tennessean reports that on Wednesday, the opening day of the Celebration, trainers took their horses through a chemical swabbing station designed to detect soring. That’s the illegal practice of causing injuries to a horse’s legs or hooves to exaggerate the high-stepping gait that wins prizes. If a trainer is found to have chemically sored a horse, he or she will be stripped of ribbons and prize money and immediately suspended. The Celebration comes as independent inspectors clash with the...

Students at area high schools, home-schooled students, Motlow College students, and members of the public are invited to the upcoming College Fair on Motlow’s Moore County campus. The annual event is set for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sept. 5 in Nisbett Center’s Copperweld Arena and will include representatives from more than 40 colleges and universities, technology centers, specialty schools and the Armed Forces, according to Brenda Cannon, director of student and campus relations at Motlow. Annie Trout of the Tennessee Assistance Student Corporation will make presentations at 9, 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. Reservations are required for these...

The TennCare Standard Spend Down program will again offer open enrollment opportunities to new applicants on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 beginning at 6 p.m. CST. Standard Spend Down is available through a waiver to the Medicaid program for a limited number of qualified low-income individuals, or those with high, unpaid medical bills who are aged, blind, disabled, or the caretaker relative of a Medicaid eligible child. Eligible individuals must have enough unpaid medical bills to meet the “spend down” threshold to qualify for coverage. A special call-in phone line through DHS has been set up for interested applicants. The...