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$2 Million Lottery Game Winner in South Pittsburg
South Pittsburg, TN has a new millionaire. The Tennessee Lottery says a lucky Tennessee Cash player in South Pittsburg won a near-record jackpot of $2,060,705 Friday night. That person has not come forward to claim their prize, nor have they been identified. But lottery officials say the store where the ticket was sold is the Lotto Mart at 519 East 12th Street North. Lottery officials say the store gets a $5,000 bonus for selling the lucky...
Conference Center in need of More Funding
Manchester-Coffee County Conference Center Manager Rebecca French says the center needs more money. Last week French presented the Coffee County Budget and Finance Committee with two proposals, one totaling $416,000. French says this one includes in-kind discounts given to nonprofit organizations and schools that rent the center. The second option, totaling about $316,000, does not include continued in-kind contributions. The center was built in 2002 for $3.5 million dollars with $1.5 million still owed. Losses at the center have topped $1 million over the last three years combined. Coffee County and Manchester City taxpayers split the costs of the...
Alleged Stolen Car Leads to Four People being Arrested
On Thursday morning (May 17th, 2018) Tullahoma Officer Tommy Elliott stopped a vehicle and after checking the tag number it showed the vehicle as being stolen. James Matthew Hall age 32 of Tullahoma was the driver and Elliott asked Hall for consent to search and he allegedly told the officer that there was drug paraphernalia in a black bag in the floor board near the driver seat. According to the arrest warrant, a search of the vehicle yielded a set of digital scales, several small baggies and a glass pipe. Also, allegedly found in the backseat floor board was...
Grundy County Looking for New Director of Schools
The Grundy County school board voted to part ways with Director of Schools Jessie Kinsey on Friday night. The board voted 5-3 in favor of buying out Kinsey’s contract at a price of $105,000. The system has been dealing with several issues since June of 2017. Kinsey and former board member Robert Foster filed a defamation of character and intentional inflection of emotional distress lawsuit against board member Kasey Anderson in June. Anderson herself has been arrested three times since June. Tension among board members rose in October after investigators charged five Grundy County High School football players with...
Unemployment Rate Stay Steady
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips have announced that Tennessee’s statewide unemployment rate for April was 3.4 percent, the third consecutive month the rate has held steady. The seasonally adjusted rate represents 0.6 percentage point decrease in unemployment compared to the same time period in 2017. April 2018 marks one year since Tennessee’s unemployment rate dropped to 4 percent for the first time in recent history. In May 2017 the rate dipped to 3.8 percent and has remained under that mark ever since. The state recorded an all-time low unemployment rate...
Dr Vaughn Leaving Coffee County High School–Will become Deputy Director
Coffee County High School Principal Dr. Joey Vaughn has been named the new Deputy Director of the Coffee County School System. Director of Schools Dr Ladonna McFall said in a statement on Wednesday that the school system is very excited about Vaughn accepting the job and now the search is on for a new principal at the high school. http://www.thunder1320.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Dr_Ladonna_McFall-Joey.mp3 Dr Vaughn succeeds current Deputy Director Joe K. Pedigo who is set to retire in June. Vaughn will assume his new role beginning July 1st. Vaughn told WMSR News that he has enjoyed his time at Coffee County High...
Man Arrested after Threat is made against Shelbyville High School
Investigators with the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office were contacted on Thursday (May 17, 2018) by the student resource officer at Shelbyville High School about some information received out of state about an adult who had made a threat online against the school. Upon investigating the information, Bedford County Sheriff’s Office investigators contacted the Board of Education, as well as the Shelbyville Police Department, in order to make them aware of the investigation. During this time, they were able to verify that a threat involving the use of firearms had been made by a white male, who is 20 years...
New Study shows more teens are thinking about Suicide
A new Vanderbilt study says more and more teens are thinking about taking their own lives. In fact, the number of teens has more than doubled in the last decade. Some common factors are school related stress, and social media. Nearly 2/3 of trips to the emergency room for attempted suicides are girls, and the most are among 15 to 17-year-olds. Scott Ridgway is executive director of the Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network. He said some warning signs parents are told to look out for include: Verbal warnings & statements, changes in mood, appetite & appearance, increase in alcohol or...
