Searchers have found the body of a teenage boy who disappeared while swimming in the Elk River in Fayetteville. WAAY-TV in Huntsville, Ala., reported the body of a 17-year-old boy was recovered late Sunday afternoon near the Highway 231 bridge. The Fayetteville Fire Department confirmed the youth was last seen walking to a rope swing with friends early Saturday afternoon. He went back to his truck to retrieve an item and his friends reported him missing about five hours later. A search continued past midnight Saturday and resumed at dawn Sunday. His body was found about 4:30 p.m. An...

Everyone is invited to come out and enjoy live music and fireworks at the City of Manchester 4th of July Celebration. Chancy Willis, Charlie Allen and Tony Stampley will perform a FREE concert at the Rotary Park Amphitheater beginning at 6:00 p.m. Fireworks will begin at 9:00 p.m. Bring your lawn chairs!! Please call the Recreation Complex at 728-0273 or City Hall at 728-4652 for further information. The Tullahoma Kiwanis Club will host an Air Show and its Forty-Third Fireworks show at the city’s airport this Friday evening. Gates to the airport will open at 3 p.m. Friday with...

Saturday morning (June 23, 2012) just before 8:00am, the Summitville VFD was paged to a structure fire at 1018 Summitville Road. The home was not occupied but was being worked on. The house, owned by Richard Onderka, suffered heavy smoke and water damage. The cause of the fire has yet to be determined. Coffee County Sheriff’s Department will be...

County non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for May 2012 in Tennessee show the rate decreased in three counties, increased in 87 counties, and remained the same in five counties. Tennessee’s unemployment rate for May rose to 7.9 percent, up from the April revised rate of 7.7 percent. The national unemployment rate for May 2012 was 8.2 percent, 0.1 percentage point higher than the April rate. Coffee County went up 0.2 to 7.8% in May. Moore Co. reported the same numbers as Coffee County. Cannon County also went by 0.2 to 7.7. Other area counties; Bedford Co. up from 8.3 in...

A Michigan man was arrested late last week on violating sex offender registry law. Christopher John Birman was arrested at a residence on Alabama Street in Huntland where Franklin County sheriff’s deputies learned that he is a convicted sex offender from Michigan and that he has not registered in Tennessee. In addition to not registering, plus there are outstanding felony warrants for his arrest from Michigan. There were also small children living in the house where Birman has been living which is a violation of the sex offender law. Birman is being held in Franklin County Jail under a...

People are reminded not to leave children or pets inside vehicles. With the temperatures in the 90s, leaving them in a vehicle can lead to death. As the temperature inside a vehicle can escalate by 15 degrees in just 10 minutes and with the hot temperatures and high humidity death can come very quickly. Even if you leave the windows rolled down some, the temperatures inside a vehicle can become deadly. Please take children in the store or leave them at home as it would be better than...

The homicide case against 24-year-old Daniel Clay McDaniel was bound over by the Grundy County grand jury last week. The grand jury will hear evidence in the criminal homicide case against McDaniel, of Gruetli-Laager, Tenn., Grundy County Sheriff Brent Myers said. McDaniel is charged in connection the March 22 slaying of Joshua Wade Stevens, 26, also of Gruetli-Laager. Grundy’s grand jury meets July 9 and will report July 20. McDaniel’s lawyer, Steven T. Greer, of Dunlap, Tenn., said that his client shot in...

A mid-state horse trainer is accused of knowingly filing false entry information for five horses and violating the Horse Protection Act during the Liberty Lions Club horse show in Shelbyville on June 15. According to a news release from the SHOW Horse Industry Organization, Joe Cotten has been suspended for 7 1/2 years and fined $5,000 based on the allegations. The suspension is effective immediately and will last until December 21, 2019. SHOW officials said in 2010 Cotten was issued a six-month suspension, two-year probation and $2,500 fine for threatening a judge. The probation was from July 26, 2010...