Dr Joey Vaughn will be the director of schools for Manchester City for at least the next four years. Dr Vaughn and the Manchester Board of Education signed a four-year agreement. Vaughn’s contract is for $117,000 per year, plus travel expenses of $5,000 a year for regular travel to surrounding counties. The travel money will be considered reimbursement and not taxable income. The board also approved vacation, sick leave and personal days. Dr Vaughn had this to say to WMSR News:...

On July 14, 2016, Tullahoma resident Joe Moon was killed in an automobile accident in Tullahoma. The two people that were in the vehicle that was being pursued by Coffee County deputies and collided with Moon, Kayla Brooke Hickey, of McMinnville, and Charleston Dakota Ortega, of Rock Island, were sentenced recently to 10 and nine years, respectively, in a Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC) facility for the high-speed chase that resulted Moon’s death. According to an accident report from the Tullahoma Police Department, a 2005 Chevrolet operated by Kayla Brooke Hickey, ran a traffic light at the viaduct in...

Sometime between Monday evening at 5 pm and Tuesday morning at 10 am, Brothers Implement Company located on the Hillsboro Hwy (Hwy 41) had a 2009 white Dodge Ram 1500 work truck with a small utility trailer stolen. The truck has Brothers Implement/Case IH decals. If you have any information that can help in this investigation please contact Coffee County Sheriff’s Department Investigator James Sherrill at...

As we told you yesterday, Adam Braseel of Grundy County was convicted of killing Malcolm Burrows of Tracy City 12 years ago. He was back in court on Wednesday asking for a new trial or his case dismissed. Part of that testimony included that of former Grundy County Investigator Mike Brown, who was first on the scene of the murder in 2006. It was the first time he has testified about this case since it happened. He was never called to testify in the original trial. Brown testified that records from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation showed no blood...

The Tennessee Historical Commission, the State Historic Preservation Office, has announced 32 Federal Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) grants totaling over $750,000 awarded for various historic preservation and archaeological projects throughout the state. The grants are awarded annually for projects that support the preservation of historic and archaeological resources. “This program is one of the main ways in which our office helps protect historic places and contribute to the preservation of Tennessee’s heritage,” said Patrick McIntyre, Executive Director and State Historic Preservation Officer. The federally funded matching grants provide 60% of project funds from the HPF and 40% of project...

Tennessee’s state average gas price is $2.38 per gallon for regular unleaded, making it the seventh lowest average price in the nation. The price is 3-cents higher than last week. Today’s national average is $2.67, which is one cent less than last week. AAA spokesperson Stephanie Milani said the national average dropped one cent on the week even as U.S. gasoline demand hit its highest level since the Energy Information Administration began publishing data in 1991. Prices jumped in Coffee County on Tuesday afternoon. The low price in Manchester is $2.35 per gallon for gas and $2.44 in...

Adam Braseel of Grundy County was convicted of killing Malcolm Burrows of Tracy City 12 years ago. He will be back in court Wednesday. He was convicted on circumstantial evidence– largely centered around the victim’s family identifying Braseel as the killer. Back in March, Grundy County Sheriff Clint Shrum said the case wasn’t investigated properly. He suggested new evidence may show an innocent man has spent the last 12 years behind bars. Sheriff Shrum said, “Why did it take 12 years to get a fingerprint back from the TBI crime lab. Why? Let’s answer some of those questions,” One...

A 20 year-old Wartrace man was killed in a two-vehicle crash Sunday morning on Highway 64 west of Shelbyville. According to a report in the Shelbyville Times-Gazette, the Tennessee Highway Patrol says that Josh W. Gunn, 20 was driving a 2001 Hyundai toward Shelbyville around 1:30 a.m. when his vehicle crossed the center line and ran head-on into a tractor-trailer operated by Stephen A. Lewis, 42, of Turtletown. A passenger in the Gunn vehicle, Jacob Austin Carter, 21, of Bell Buckle, was seriously injured, according to the report. Carter is undergoing treatment at Vanderbilt Medical...