A Manchester man sustained life-threatening injuries and a Gallatin man is facing charges of attempted first-degree murder and carjacking after an incident Saturday afternoon that began at Foothills Crafts on Woodbury Highway.  According to a police report on file by the Manchester Police Department, Norman Vetter was leaving Foothills Crafts at approximately 4:40 p.m. Saturday when he encountered Ricky Guy Crews, age 48, of Gallatin sitting on the bench outside. Crews followed Vetter to his vehicle and asked for a ride. After making it about a half mile down Maple Springs Rd., Crews told Vetter to pull over, drew...

A Kimball man has been arrested on a homicide charge. A joint investigation by special agents wit the TBI, the Jasper Police and Marion County Sheriff’s office led to the arrest of Benjamin Desrosier, 35.  According to a press release, Desrosier and Timothy Matthew Shirley were involved in an altercation Saturday outside of a business in the 6400 block of highway 41 in Jasper. Desrosier allegedly fatally shot Shirley during this altercation. He was arrested Saturday on charges of criminal homicide and booked into the Marion County...

The Coffee County School District has been awarded grant renewal for the 21st Century Community Learning Center program titled Coffee County Schools Excellence. This grant for the after school program receives federal funding from the Tennessee Department of Education’s Office of Extended Learning. Grants are awarded by 3 to 5 year contracts by a panel of independent readers who score them using a detailed rubric. The previous grant concluded in June of 2019, which served only East Coffee Elementary. The annual award is $403,815.00, which totals $2,019,075.00 over the next 5 years. Sites will be formed at East Coffee Elementary, Deerfield...

A joint investigation including the Tullahoma Police Department (TPD), Special Agent with the Drug Investigation Division of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation(TBI) and the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department (CCSD) has resulted in the arrest of Isaiah Kalil Clark, age 25. Clark was charged with two counts of second degree murder related to trafficking fentanyl laced drugs. In June 2019, law enforcement officers began investigating  two of overdoses that occurred in Tullahoma involving fentanyl. During the course of the investigation, TPD, TBI and CCSD developed information that identified Isaiah Clark as the person responsible for distributing the fentanyl with connections...

Tullahoma residents in the Jennings Point subdivision were given quite a scare Saturday when a 42-year old homeowner there called authorities claiming that an explosive device was in his residence. Members of the Tullahoma Police Department and Tennessee Highway Patrol bomb squad worked the scene and residents within 300 yards of the home were evacuated to Grace Baptist Church. No explosive device was found in the home and the man who called in the threat was taken to the hospital for mental...

City of Tullahoma’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen passed a resolution at its meeting last Monday (July 8) requesting that revenues from the county’s new occupancy tax – more commonly know as a hotel / motel tax, be used to promote and enhance tourism in Coffee County.  According to The Tullahoma News, before the vote was held on the resolution, Tullahoma Mayor Lane Curlees said: “we just ask that the funds go toward specific items instead of going to the general fund.” The resolution is non-binding and it not a law or ordinance – but merely a request. You...

A child in Tennessee has died after suffering a heatstroke inside a hot car.  Three-year old Daylin Palmer, was left unattended in a Dodge Charger for approximately two hours in Smyrna Thursday, July 11th. Smyrna Police and Rutherford County EMS rushed to the residence but were unable to save the child’s life. The father, Dylan Levesque, has been charged with aggravated child abuse and neglect, a class A felony. He is due in court today (Monday, July 15th). Two similar situations were reported in Murfreesboro last week where the children survived. In one case, a 21-year old woman left...