Students at North Coffee Elementary (Charger Champs), Hickerson Elementary (Health Hawks), and Hillsboro Elementary (Hillsboro Hikers) have been training this school year in after school walking clubs. School Nurses have been staying after school two days a week encouraging students to increase their physical activity while combating childhood obesity. In the process they have been training for the ING Kids Rock Marathon. The students ran 25.2 miles during their training and the nurse’s kept a log of each student’s progress. April 27 the students traveled to LP Field in Nashville and ran the remaining one mile to complete the...

For the second time in less than a week a Tullahoma area church has been the victim of a break in. Thieves entered the Covenant Presbyterian Church on Wilson Avenue in the late hours of Wednesday or early Thursday morning. Tullahoma Police Sgt. Robert Weaver found a rear door to the church building open around 2:48 a.m. Thursday morning while doing a safety check of the building. The officer entered the building and found several drawers and closets had been ransacked and a safe had been pried open. The officer reported that there were a number of items scattered...

The light rain may have contributed to the cause of two vehicles crashing on Farrar Hill Road Thursday afternoon. Attempting to negotiate a curve, a small car and a pickup truck collided in the curve causing extensive damage to the car. Both drivers were complaining of aches and pains, but refused medical attention from Coffee County EMS. Coffee County Sheriff’s Department was in charge of the...

Divers from the Coffee County Rescue Squad took part in a search for the remains of Bobby Smelcer, whose skull was found in the Duck River in Bedford County in April. The skull was identified Monday. The Coffee County divers along with other diver from other counties searched the river bottom, occasionally filling large metal buckets with rocks and debris. Those buckets were carried by a boat occupied by two divers to a makeshift workstation filled with forensics personnel. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation forensics experts and several students from Middle Tennessee State University’s forensics program worked side-by-side inspecting the...

Three people were killed in a single car collision in Warren County early Wednesday afternoon. The accident was reported around Noon on Goodbar Road near McMinnville, about 80 miles east of Nashville. Authorities said Roy Rogers was traveling south on the roadway when his 1999 Cadillac struck an embankment and utility pole before overturning. Roy Rogers, along with his two passengers George Dodson Jr. and Danny Rogers were killed in the accident. Officials said none of the victims were wearing seat belts. Alcohol is believed to have played a role in the accident. The investigation is...

A Warren County man has been indicted in Rutherford County and charged with TennCare fraud for the second time. The Office of Inspector General (OIG), with the assistance of the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office have announced the arrest of Charles Ray Burger, 43, of McMinnville. He was being held in the Warren County Jail on unrelated charges, and was later transported the Rutherford County Jail, where he was served with the indictment. Burger is accused of obtaining Morphine Sulphate through a local clinic prescription, then later selling the drug to an undercover police officer in Warren County. If convicted...

Those of you that travel Belmont Rd in the county, that road that road will be closed Friday but open to people living in that area only. County workers are replacing a collapsed tile the work should be completed by this afternoon. Paving work will resume on Belmont Rd when the tile work is...

April 2012 was the driest April since 1915. This past month, rainfall totals were about ONE HALF inch of rain. In 1915, the record was set at ZERO POINT FOUR SEVEN inches – so we were slightly above the record, but not by much. As a comparable, our rainfall average for this area is around four inches of rain. And as another point of interest, in April 1977, the highest April rainfall record was set at TWELVE POINT THREE SIX inches of rain. Duck River Utility Commission (DRUC), where TUB purchases its water, is reporting that we are track...