The U.S. Supreme Court won’t consider an appeal, that could have delayed an upcoming Tennessee execution. The appeal involves Tennessee’s lethal injection combination. Inmates claim in a lawsuit that the method causes excruciating pain. The appeal doesn’t challenge lethal injection directly. Instead, it challenges Tennessee laws surrounding the procurement of execution drugs. Inmates argue the laws prevented them from proving a more humane drug is available. Justice Sonia Sotomayor agrees. In her statement on Monday, she says the requirement that prisoners challenging one method of execution proves there is a better method available is “fundamentally wrong.” She adds that...

The bank account of a Shelbyville woman has been completely depleted since January by a scammer who convinced her she’d won $150,000, Shelbyville police said Friday. Calls began coming in January to the woman’s cellphone. She was told to send $2,000 to FedEx to receive the money. That request was followed by demands for more money. The victim took out bank loans to send $5,000 to the scammer. She told police she’s now broke and can’t send more money. A text sent to the woman contained the name “Agent Gaynell Chaney of the Global Empowerment Grant Program.” Officer Chris...

The Coffee County Sheriff’s Department and Manchester Police are working together to solve several car burglaries that occurred in the early morning of May 6, 2019 in the Indian Springs Subdivision and Oakley Subdivision area in Manchester. A vehicle of interest is a Toyota Tacoma possibly gray or green in color, with at least three occupants inside. Several guns were stolen along with a Stihl MS460 chainsaw, Dewalt tools, electronics, and money. These vehicles were left unlocked at the time, so the departments are urging citizens to make sure your vehicles are locked. If you have any information of...

Back in 2014 the Coffee County Board of Education sued the city of Tullahoma for $387,488. This was money the city had gotten from liquor-by-the-drink taxes. The county argued the city’s portion of liquor-by-the-drink tax money should have been distributed in part to the county school system and had been denied those funds for decades. The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Tullahoma saying the city does not owe the county schools any money. A similar suit was filed by Manchester against Tullahoma, but a ruling has not been made in that case even though the decision...

Four Tennessee pain management clinics have abruptly closed amid state and federal health insurance fraud investigations. The Tennessean reports the clinics formerly with PainMD and rebranded under the name Rinova officially closed Wednesday. Federal authorities last year accused PainMD and its parent company, MedManagement, of inflating profits by giving patients unnecessary injections that they then requested reimbursement for through federal health insurance programs. State authorities previously accused the parent company of similarly defrauding TennCare. State and federal authorities have filed lawsuits over the allegations, and three PainMD nurses were indicted last month on related fraud charges. PainMD Nurse Practitioner...