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Commission Approves Zoning Change, Love’s to be Built
The Coffee County Commission approved a zoning plan on Tuesday night that will allow a new Loves Truck Stop to be built in Coffee County at Exit 117 near AEDC. The location would bring in over 40 jobs. There will be a store and restaurant at the location. All commissioners voted in favor of the rezoning except for District 6 Commissioner Dennis Hunt. The truck stop will be built in his district. He had said in the past, that residents that live near where the truck-stop is proposed were concerned the complex will bring in illegal activities, such as...
Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Asking for the Public’s Help
The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating the theft of a 40-foot gooseneck trailer with four Razor ATV’s that were loaded on it. They were stolen around December 07th, 2017 from the Warren Chapel area. If you have any information or have seen the trailer and/or the four ATV’s please contact Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Investigator George Dyer at...
Lawmakers back in Session
Lawmakers were back in Nashville Tuesday to begin the second year of the 110th General Assembly. It will be a session that includes many changes. While lawmakers will still meet in the State Capitol, their offices and committee meeting rooms have been moved from Legislative Plaza to the nearby Cordell Hull building. The issue of requiring seat belts on school buses may return. Unlike in the past, legislation to implement private school voucher programs won’t return. As the state continues to battle an opioid epidemic, bills attempting to prevent overdoses may be priorities. Last year, a legislative task force...
TN Prisoners Earn Degrees Behind Bars
This week, more than 20 male prisoners in Tennessee are celebrating the completion of the associate degrees they earned while behind bars. It’s the first such group to receive the honor in more than 20 years. The inmates will graduate at the Turney Center Industrial Complex as part of a program with Nashville State Community College that’s coordinated by the Tennessee Higher Education Initiative (THEI). Executive director Molly Lasagna says education is one way to give people a place to start once they are released. “Our mission at the Tennessee Higher Education Initiative is really to think about the...
71 year-old Manchester Man Charged with Rape of a Child
According to an arrest warrant filed on Monday (Jan. 8, 2018), beginning at approximately age 5 (2004) and continuing until the female victim was approximately age 12 in 2011, Jewell Daniel Frame age 71 of Suits Me Lane Manchester, allegedly on multiple occasions engaged in unlawful sexual activity with the victim. The warrant states that this alleged action by Frame occurred while the victim was more than 3 years of age but less that thirteen years of age. Frame was charged by Deputy Brandon Reed of the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department with Rape of a Child. His bond was...
Possible Homicide in Winchester
A Shelbyville man was found shot multiple times at a park in Winchester Monday afternoon. Harvey Dwayne Harper, 41, of Shoma Drive Shelbyille was found dead in his vehicle in the Oak Park in Winchester located on Oak Street around 4 p.m. “Officer Lamar Howard spotted a vehicle sitting in the park and a man sitting in it,” Winchester Police Chief Ritchie Lewis stated Tuesday. “Lamar walked up to the car and saw that the man had been shot several times.” According to the chief it appears that the man had been shot with a pistol several times. The...
Area Doctor to be Sentenced to Prison This Month
A Murfreesboro Podiatrist, who also operated an office in Manchester, will be sentenced to prison later this month on January 26, 2018. 51 year-old John J. Cauthon of Murfreesboro, Tenn., was convicted in 2017 by a federal jury on four counts of health care fraud involving a 16-month scheme to defraud Medicare and other health care benefit programs, announced Donald Q. Cochran, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. The convictions came after a two-week trial before United States Chief District Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr. Cauthon was also acquitted of three counts of health care fraud. According...
Suicides Up in Tennessee
An average of three people died by suicide each day in Tennessee in 2016, the highest recorded in the state in more than 35 years. News outlets cite Tennessee health officials as saying white middle-aged men in rural areas account for a majority of the deaths. White males make up 40 percent of Tennessee’s population, but made up 77 percent of suicide deaths in 2016. But officials from the Tennessee Department of Health’s Office of Health Statistics say suicides also are increasing among those 10 to 19 years old. East Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network official Amy Dolinky says the...
