Grundy County deputies and state agents recently recovered stolen vehicles and other items from a garage building located on Holland Road in the Hubbards Cove area in Grundy County late last week. Sheriff Clint Shrum explained this location had been on the radar for several months however opportunity had never presented itself to conduct a search. Sheriff’s deputies along with the U.S. Marshals office went to the residence to serve a warrant. When they arrived they arrested 27-year old Jonathan Creek on an outstanding warrant. Creek gave consent to search an area of interest. The Tennessee Highway Patrol Special...

A report released by the state of Tennessee suggests that up to 1.4 million people are at risk of losing their jobs to automation. Citing a study by the Center for Economic Research in Tennessee, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports that automation could replace nearly 50 percent of the state’s workforce. The findings were published on the Tennessee Workforce Disruption Index last week. According to the report, automation would change the way the workplace is configured and would make new demands on educational facilities. Randy Boyd, the commissioner of the state’s Department of Economic and Community Development, says that...

It’s the end of an era. The Bluegrass Crossroads Show is coming to end on Thunder Radio in Manchester. The live Blue Grass Radio Show started in June of 1998-(known then as the Saturday Morning Bluegrass Show) and was hosted by Max Northcutt and Tom Brantley. Then Jeff Haley stepped in to co-host with Max. Later the show evolved into the Bluegrass Crossroads show with Dennis Flatt and Kraig Smith sharing hosting duties with Becky Buller-Haley. All of the former and current hosts of the show got together recently to reminisce and say goodbye, here is what they had...

Terry Fults, 36, of Twin Cedars Lane in Tullahoma, entered a guilty plea to aggravated sexual battery against a 10-year-old boy. The plea occurred last week in the Moore County courthouse. The former elementary school substitute teacher will serve nine years in prison, she’ll be barred from having any contact with the victim; must register as a sex offender; and serve community suspension for life. There is the potential for a 15-percent reduction in jail time based on credits earned and retained. Fults was charged on Oct. 29, 2014. Fults had been working as a substitute teacher at Lynchburg...

Tennessee’s unemployment rate for the month of February decreased from 5.4 percent to 4.9 percent, a decrease of five-tenths of a percentage point. The national rate was unchanged at 4.9 percent. That’s according to numbers from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Over the past year, Tennessee’s unemployment rate decreased from 6.0 percent to 4.9 percent, while the national rate declined from 5.5 percent to 4.9...