The director of Warren County Animal Control faces charges after marijuana was found growing on county property behind the animal shelter on Paws Lane. Tammy Webb was arrested Monday evening following a grand jury indictment on charges relating to the manufacture, delivery and sale of marijuana. Sheriff’s investigator Bo Ramsey said text messages between Webb and her son, Jonathan Ewell Smith, led to the indictment. Smith was arrested four weeks ago when deputies confiscated 36 marijuana plants found in the...

Moore County Sheriff’s Department is searching for thieves who have been burglarizing houses in the Hurricane Road, Price Hollow, Turkey Creek Church Road, Cobb Hollow Road and McGee Road areas. According Moore County Sheriff Mark Logan, the thieves, who are thought to be driving a dark blue SUV, are stealing televisions, jewelry, guns, chain saws and leaf blowers. He said the thieves are taking anything that they can pawn...

A new survey says late payments on mortgages hit a three-year low, but if you’re still having problems with your home mortgage, help might just be a phone call away. Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper and Tennessee Housing Development Agency Executive Director Ted R. Fellman announced a toll-free mortgage hotline is now available for Tennesseans who need advice. Homeowners can call Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. CST and speak with a representative who can direct homeowners to a free foreclosure prevention counselor and explain various housing assistance programs. “My office wants to make sure that...

Charla Daly, County Executive Director of the Coffee/Grundy County Farm Service Agency, announces that due to the extreme drought situation that has been ongoing since April 10, 2012, Coffee and Grundy County FSA has been authorized to implement the Emergency Conservation Program (ECP). Coffee/Grundy County’s ECP signup period will begin August 13 at 8:00 am and will continue through 4:30 p.m. on September 12, 2012. This program will provide a maximum of 50% cost share for permanent practices and 75% cost share for temporary practices (not to exceed actual documented costs) if funding becomes available. Applicants must incur at...

A number of Coffee County residents took time Tuesday afternoon to drive to the Tullahoma Airport to watch Metropolitan Life’s (MetLife) Snoopy #2 blimp. The blimp landed at the airport around 6 p.m. and the crewmembers spent the night in Tullahoma and then headed to South Carolina where they will be providing aerial shots of a PGA golf tournament. Airport manager Jon Glass said similar blimps have landed at the...

A Missing Child Alert has been issued in Coffee County. Police received information that Sierra Burgess, age 14, has been missing since Sunday night. According to her family Sierra was last seen around Stacy Ann Mobile Home Park in Manchester Sunday night around 11 pm. Anyone with any information about Sierra’s whereabouts please contact the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department at...

One of four men who pleaded guilty to soring Tennessee walking horses will not face more jail time. According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, John Mays was sentenced Monday to the time he has already served and ordered to write an article about horse soring. U.S. District Court Judge Sandy Mattice included the writing of the article as a community service requirement of Mays’ one-year supervised release. The court said the article must include how widespread soring is, who it is done for and how it affects horses. Horse trainer Jackie McConnell, Jeff Dockery and Joseph Abernathy were...