Music City Roots FREE Memorial Day Lunchtime Party What better way to celebrate the heroes that fought for our freedom, than with FREE music and FREE stuff WHEN Monday 5/28 – Memorial Day Noon-2pm WHERE John Roberts Nissan I-24 exit #114 in Manchester WHAT’S GOIN’ ON Free show by the Volunteer String Band Free Vietti Chili dogs…served by Aly Sutton, the Vietti Chili girl Drawings for Free CD’s, T-shirts and other cool swag compliments of NISSAN Register to win free tickets to Music City Roots on a free luxury shuttle from Manchester Can be heard Live on WMSR Music City...

A Manchester couple has been sentenced to 30 days in jail and placed on probation for two years after they entered a plea of guilty to criminal attempt to commit child neglect. Jeremy and Pamela Neal were arrested January 10, 2012 at their residence on Kefauver Street in Manchester after police found three children living in what they considered to be deplorable conditions. According to Manchester Police Investigator Butch Stewart, the officers found human and animal feces along with garbage in various amounts of debris was found throughout the house. According to warrants obtained by Stewart, the children appeared...

Accused murderer Matthew Perkins made a brief court appearance in Coffee County Circuit Court Wednesday. The former Army recruiter is accused of murdering Stephanie Hershman and her two sons in their Skinner Flat home in Manchester in September 2010. Perkins’ defense attorneys informed Judge Craig Johnson that mental evaluations are continuing. The judge then set August 22nd as the next date for Perkins to appear, and he expects the evaluations to be completed. During that hearing a date will be set for motions to be filed. After the hearing Perkins was returned to his cell in the Franklin County...

A Manchester Police captain has filed a lawsuit in Coffee County Circuit Court against the publisher of a local newspaper. A suit was filed by Wilma Thomas against Charles “Chip” Ramsey and his wife, Beth Ramsey, alleging that an article was published in the Saturday Independent stating that Thomas was reprimanded in the 1990s by a former city administrator for using inmates for personal chores, and that she was suspended from the police department for two weeks. Thomas alleges that the article was false and defamatory and placed her in a false light. The suit alleges that Ramsey had...

Jackie L. McConnell, 60, of Collierville, Tennessee, John Mays, 50, of Collierville, and Joseph R. Abernathy, 30, of Olive Branch, Mississippi, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court, in Chattanooga, to charges related to the conspiracy to violate the Horse Protection Act. Charges are still pending against a fourth individual charged in this case. Sentencing has been set for McConnell, Mays and Abernathy at 9:00 a.m., September 10, 2012, in U.S. District Court, Chattanooga. McConnell faces a term of up to five years in prison, a $250,000.00 fine, supervised release for up to three years, and a $100 special...

Elk River Utilities District has decided to discontinue sending out late notices to those who are late on paying their gas bills. The utility will save approximately $1,000 a month in postage as they currently send out some 1,500 notices a month. This comes as the postal service is combining the mail distribution center in Chattanooga to Nashville, which would mean a longer waiting period for the bills to be paid. The utility will discontinue sending out the notices and waiving late fees effective July...

Tennessee voters want to see their lawmakers spend more time on the economy and less time on social issues like sex education, according a new poll out from Vanderbilt University. The survey reached 1,002 adults in the state and 75 percent of them were registered voters. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus four points. Pollsters found 57 percent of people wanted the economy to be the top priority, followed by education with 22 percent and health care with 14 percent. Only 28 percent approved of how lawmakers were doing their jobs. Gov. Bill Haslam...