On Wednesday morning around 11:30 A.M. Coffee County Deputy Aaron Miller was transporting Allison Summer Gipson age 22 of North 8th Avenue in Decherd from the court house to the Coffee County jail. Gipson was at her scheduled probation appointment and was drug tested and failed. She was then taken to Circuit Court where Judge Craig Johnson revoked her bond. After taken into custody, Gipson was patted down by Deputy Janice Taylor and was found to be in possession of a bottle of prescription medication that was allegedly taken from her probation officer in the hood of her clothing....

Jennifer Ann Amacher, former Tullahoma Planning and Codes director, has been charged with reckless endangerment, stemming from a shooting incident involving her son that occurred on Dec. 11, 2015. The tragic shooting claimed 11-year-old Sienna Owens’ life. The accused shooter was Sienna’s schoolmate, Amacher’s son, who was 12 at the time of the shooting, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department reports. At the time of the shooting, Amacher was home where the shooting had occurred, authorities said. Since December, investigators have been gathering evidence for the District Attorney’s Office. Now five months later, the District Attorney’s Office has...

An ongoing investigation by Special Agents with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and investigators with the Shelbyville Police Department has resulted in a man being arrested and charged in connection to the death of a Shelbyville woman. At the request of 17th District Attorney General Rob Carter, TBI Special Agents, working alongside detectives with the Shelbyville Police Department, began investigating the September 14, 2015 homicide of 45-year-old Angela Kibble. The victim was found deceased in her residence at 800 Belmont Avenue in Shelbyville by a neighbor. During the course of the investigation, Special Agents developed information that Danny Allen,...

The future of a 1,600-acre site on the Tennessee River could be decided this week. The Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors, at its meeting on Thursday, is expected to consider the possible sale of land originally allocated for the Bellefonte Nuclear Generating Station that was never completed. Although the land actually is in Hollywood, Ala., Steve Smith, executive director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, said water doesn’t have boundaries and the river flows back into west Tennessee. “This is a very very important waterway to the state of Tennessee and to people who recreate and use...

A Tullahoma woman was arrested April 27 on charges of child abuse neglect or neglect in connection with an incident that allegedly occurred at Bel Aire School last February. According to a warrant obtained by Tullahoma Police Investigator Rana Pawlowski, Jennifer D. Huskey,35 of Crestwood Drive, Tullahoma was charged with an incident that allegedly occurred while she was substitute teaching at the school. She is accused of “back handing” a student at the school in the mouth. The warrant alleges that when she allegedly struck the child she caused his lip to bleed. He then stated that he needed...

A Manchester man was arrested April 30 after he allegedly kidnapped three people. Bobby Joe Wade, 57, of Interstate Drive Manchester was named in an eight count indictment by the April term of the Coffee County Grand Jury for three counts of especially aggravated kidnapping, three counts of aggravated assault, aggravated robbery and employing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony. Coffee County Sheriff’s Investigator James Sherrill alleges that on Jan. 15 Wade held the three people against their will by holding a shotgun on them and took money from one of the three. The indictments also...

An event and music venue caught fire Monday night in Bedford County, forcing crews to tape it and nearby buildings off. Crews believe the fire started on the second floor of the music hall and hotel on Spring Street in Wartrace just before 8 p.m. The second and third floors sustained smoke damage. A water line also broke on the second floor, leading to water damage on the first. The initial investigation suggests the fire was not suspicious in nature. The building remained taped off early Tuesday morning as authorities continue to investigate. The hotel, currently for sale, is...