A Manchester man was arrested Sunday on several charges after leading police on a high-speed chase on Highway 55 between Tullahoma and Manchester. According to a report by Tullahoma Police Officer Jim Tate 27 year old Ira Eugene Nolan of South Ramsey Street was charged with reckless endangerment, failure to yield to blue lights, evading arrest and reckless driving. The officer’s report states that he clocked the car by radar at speeds up to 115 mph. and that Nolan did not stop. Once Nolan approached Marcom’s Pharmacy, Manchester Police placed speed strips in the roadway, but he stopped before...

A fundraiser is to be held to aid Coffee County youths who are under the care of the Department of Children Services, and it will involve a unique, but much-needed donated item — underwear. The Coffee County Community Advisory Board, which aids the department’s efforts, is sponsoring Project UNDERaWEARness to gather undergarments for youths who have been taken into care from broken or bad family environments for their personal safety. When children are taken they usually have only the clothes they are wearing. In addition to new packaged undergarments, including socks and diapers, bras are also needed. The event...

The murder of Tullahoma resident Meagan Sharpton received added publicity Monday night when HLN’s Nancy Grace aired an hour-long show featuring the murder. Rita Cosby interviewed several individuals involved in the investigation of the murder of the 24-year-old woman whose partially burned body was found on the side of Awalt Road in Franklin County and her car was later found sitting in the middle of Three Forks Bridge Road in Bedford County. Her purse was found in Rock Creek in Estill Springs...

The summer break for most children is soon coming to an end.  Coffee County Schools will have an abbreviated day on Aug. 2 from 7:45 a.m. to 10 a.m. with the first full day of classes on Aug. 6. Manchester City Schools will have an abbreviated day on Aug. 2, from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., with regular classes beginning on Aug. 6.  Classes at Tullahoma City Schools will be back in session Aug. 1. Franklin County’s back to the drawing board on Aug. 7. Moore County Schools will have an abbreviated day on Aug. 2 with the first full...

The new school year is about to start up and for the seventh-annual Sales Tax Holiday, which runs Friday through Sunday, Aug. 3-5. There will be no state or local sales tax on clothing with a price of $100 or less per item, school and art supplies with a price of $100 or less per item, and computers with a price of $1,500 or less. The Tennessee commissioner of revenue says that state officials are hopeful that all shoppers will take advantage of the tax relief provided by the 2012 Sales Tax Holiday,” said Revenue Commissioner Richard H....

State officials are warning about a scam in which perpetrators offer to arrange payments of consumers’ utility bills. The Tennessee Regulatory Authority says scammers ask for Social Security numbers or other personal information. The scammers, in exchange, provide phony bank account numbers and bank routing numbers they say would be used to pay bills online. Officials say the perpetrators tell people it’s a special federal program to pay such bills. The bogus information is being disseminated through social media, email, text messages and in-person solicitations. TRA chairman Kenneth Hill described the scammers as “bad actors in the...

State and Regional Library officials recently sent a warning to Coffee County officials after the Budget and Finance Committee proposed a less than 1.4 percent reduction to the county libraries’ budget. Coffee County Library Board Chairwoman Kathy Rose informed last week’s budget meeting and said that the library received notification from the Regional Director, Betty Jo Jarvis, that the 39,000 patrons of the library stand to lose a substantial number of services from the state and regional library if we try to cut our budget by even as little as $12,100. She asked the committee to put the money...