The Grundy County Board of Education decided Tuesday night to delay hiring a new football coach. In the Fall, five students were charged with attempted aggravated rape when they allegedly assaulted another student. Casey Tate who was head coach at the time of the incident was relieved from his coaching duties. Tuesday night, the school board was set to decide how much they are willing to spend on a new coach. Instead, the board pushed that topic to the February meeting. WMSR News has learned there are two finalists to become the new head coach of the Yellow Jackets....

The deadline for Tennessee Promise scholarship recipients (high school class of 2018) to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA) has been extended until Jan. 26, 2018, due to the recent bout of wintry weather and illness-related school closings in the state. Jonathan Graham, Tennessee Promise specialist at Motlow State Community College, offers the following advice to interested students, “It is extremely important that the FAFSA be completed by Jan. 26 to be eligible for the Tennessee Promise scholarship. Motlow State Tennessee Promise students needing help with their FASFA application can contact Jessica Dodge, financial aid counselor,...

Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves and Investigator Jason Dendy have issued a warning about a scam making its way around Coffee County. The scammers in the past have posed as a deputy from the sheriff’s department, this time they are spoofing phone numbers that seem to be local. Sometimes the scammer even claims to be a lawyer. Caller ID spoofing is the practice of causing the telephone network to indicate to the receiver of a call that the originator of the call is from someone or place other than the true originating person or place. “The scammers say they...

Winchester Police Department is searching for any information on the whereabouts of James L. Wood, white male, 50 years old. He was last heard from on July 29, 2017. Mr. Wood is believed to possibly be driving this 1988 white Ford F150 with license plate of DV0X44. If you have any information at all on James Wood, please contact Detective Ryan Fuller at 931-967-3840 or Crimestoppers at 931-962-INFO...

Gov. Bill Haslam is touting a $30 million plan that focuses on prevention, treatment and law enforcement to attack an opioid epidemic that kills three Tennesseans a day. The Republican released details in a news conference Monday alongside Senate Speaker Randy McNally, House Speaker Beth Harwell, Supreme Court Chief Justice Jeffrey Bivins and others. Treatment and recovery services would get a $25 million improvement through state and federal money. People would be limited to initial prescriptions of a five-day supply and a daily dosage limit of the equivalent of 40 morphine milligrams, with limits similar affecting TennCare recipients. Prevention...

Ongoing severe winter weather has more than doubled the number of canceled American Red Cross blood drives and the resulting blood and platelet donation shortfall since earlier this month. The Red Cross now considers the situation critical and is reissuing an urgent call for blood and platelet donors. More than 550 blood drives have been forced to cancel due to winter weather in January, causing over 16,500 blood and platelet donations to go uncollected through last week. In the Red Cross Tennessee Valley Blood Services Region, which includes middle Tennessee and Western Kentucky, 54 blood drives have been forced...

A Tennessee lawmaker is still fighting to allow liquor and wine purchases on Sundays. State Rep. Gerald McCormick proposed a bill that would allow package stores to sell liquor and allow grocery stores to sell wine during hours when beer is sold, which would include Sundays. This isn’t the first time the push has been made. In 2016, Tennessee began allowing stores to sell wine. That law denied wine sales on Sundays and certain holidays. Last year, Sen. Bill Ketron introduced a bill that would allow liquor sales on Sundays–it did not pass. State Rep. Bob Ramsey is also...