The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation captured the latest addition to the state’s Top 10 Most Wanted fugitive list over the weekend. Gregorio Arenas, 35, was found hiding in a closet under a pile of clothes and bed sheets in an inner room of a house located on East Fairview Boulevard in Fairview. TBI, U.S. Marshals and the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team gained entry to the residence after receiving information Arenas was barricaded inside and may have committed suicide or was about to attempt suicide. He was safely located and taken into custody around 5:20 p.m. Sunday. Arenas...

Election Day is Thursday. The totals of early voting in Coffee County: 3,299 people cast their ballots in early voting with 2,064 voting republican and 1,028 democrat. The largest amount of votes cast in one day was Friday July 27 with 458 votes cast. Live Election night coverage begins on Thunder Radio Thursday night beginning at...

Everyone is invited to the Grand Opening of the newly-remodeled Stan McNabb Chevrolet Buick GMC Cadillac dealership at 2000 N. Jackson Street in Tullahoma this Friday and Saturday. The McNabb dealership has been family owned and operated since 1980. “There will be something for everyone both days,” according to Trent McNabb, son of owners Stan and Jamie McNabb and General Manager of the dealership. “We will offer refreshments both days and door prizes, including a large flat screen TV, iPad, Apple TVs and Garmins. Of course, we will offer tours of the new building. A special treat will be...

The City of Manchester Street Department would like to make everyone aware of the new crosswalk and sidewalk that were recently installed. As school will be starting back this week and children will be using the new crosswalk and sidewalk. The new crosswalk is at Taylor St by Westwood School and the sidewalk is on Lynchburg Rd. Please remember this when driving in those areas. Coffee County Schools will have an abbreviated day on August 2nd from 7:45 a.m. to 10 a.m. with the first full day of classes on August 6th. Manchester City Schools will have an abbreviated...

Matthew Perkins of Tullahoma plead guilty of killing a mother and her two children on Monday in Coffee County court. Yesterday (July 30, 2012) Perkins plead guilty of the murders of 26-year-old Stephanie Hershman, and her sons, three-year-old Jathan and one-year-old Jaylon. According to assistant district attorney Ken Shelton, the autopsies showed the victims died of multiple blunt force trauma and knife wounds. In September 2010 the victims’ bodies were found in a bedroom closet of their Skinner Flatt Road home in Manchester. Nearly 30 family members were in court Monday and had to approve the deal before he...

Around 1:30pm Monday afternoon, a woman from Illinois was traveling north on Fredonia Road in her late model Mitsubishi. She stated that she went off the side of the road where there is no shoulder and whipped it back onto the road, overcorrecting the car. She then went off the right side of the road into a bean field rolling over at least two times. Traveling with the female driver were her son, age 11, and his friend, age 9. The three were transported to an area hospital to be checked out. None of the three seem to have...

Witnesses say an argument between friends turned deadly in Grundy County Sunday afternoon, leaving one man dead. The Sheriff’s Office tells us the two were arguing near a BP convenience store Sunday afternoon in Gruetli-Laager. One of the men left then returned with a gun. Investigators say the two men were arguing near the corner of Highway 108 and 60th Avenue, across from the BP store. Investigators say Kurt Brewer left the argument but came back with a gun. Brewer has been arrested and faces a murder charge. The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office has not yet released the name...

With the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration less than a month away, federal animal regulators are moving to decertify five of the 12 horse industry organizations that are supposed to help them inspect for abuse. Chester Gipson, deputy director of animal care for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, says the five haven’t adopted the government’s new toughened minimum penalties rule for exhibitors of walking horses that are found to show signs of soring — the use of chemicals and objects or pain to exaggerate the high-stepping gait of walking horses. The action signals the agency isn’t about to back...