A crash in Marion County has sent several college students to the hospital. The South Pittsburg Mountain Volunteer Fire Department and Tennessee Highway Patrol responded to the crash on South Pittsburg Mountain Road (SR 156). The crash occurred around 10:30pm Friday night. It involved one SUV with 10 people from Sewanee, Tennessee’s University of the South and one visitor inside. Four were taken by helicopter to the hospital. They all have serious injuries. The Tennessee Highway Patrol says preliminary reports show the car ran off the roadway, overcorrected and came back onto the road before flipping and rolling down...

DREMC members should be on guard for a resurfacing of an electric bill payment scam, which was reported in the Manchester area last week. The people behind this fraud instruct members to pay their electric bills right then by credit card over the phone, or they will be disconnected within 30 minutes. The scammers have left this number, 931-572-5620, ext. 1, with members to call back with their credit card information. Thankfully, most of the members became immediately aware that this was a scam and did not give any payment information to the scammers. However, one such business fell...

A man burned in a hotel room fire that police say was related to a meth lab has been hospitalized. News outlets report that Murfreesboro police spokesman Kyle Evans said in a press release that officers responding to a medical call behind a convenience store Sunday morning found the burned man in his underwear. The hotel is reported to be the America’s Best Value Inn on South Church...

Manchester City Schools Director Lee Wilkerson has announced the appointment of Julie Green to serve as Principal at Westwood Middle School (WMS). Now former WMS Principal Chad Fletcher has been reassigned in the system. Green has served as a special education teacher, fourth grade teacher, assistant principal and principal through her 26 years in public education. Most recently Green has served as assistant principal at College Street Elementary School and brings a wealth of knowledge and skill to this position. Green earned a B.S. degree from Middle Tennessee State University, a M.S. degree from Tennessee Technological University and is...

Manchester Police responded to a motor vehicle accident on Thursday afternoon (9-28-17) around 2:30pm at 1103 Woodbury Hwy. According to a report by Officer Daniel Ray, when he arrived on the scene the 1994 GMC truck was fully engulfed in flames. Manchester Fire and Rescue arrived and extinguished the flames. The report goes onto say that Paramedics came to the scene and confirmed that Terry Lynn Bunn age 48 of Shelly Road, Manchester was deceased. Ray states in his report that a witness said that the truck was headed west at a high rate of speed on the Woodbury...

A Flintville woman was arrested on drug charges by Manchester Police. Alishia Suzette Burks, 29, of Flintville was charged with manufacturing/delivering/possession of a controlled substance, possession of schedule II, possession of legend drug without a prescription and illegal possession of a weapon. On Sept. 26 Manchester Police Officer Devin DeFord responded to a welfare check at Speedway Market on Oak Drive. Burks was found asleep in her car at the gas pump. Upon awakening Burks, when the officer asked if she was okay, she said she was sick. The officer obtained permission to search her car. When he searched...

On Sunday the 24th of September, Deputy Jerod Bradford made a vehicle stop for speeding on Highway 41-A near Carr Creek Road in Moore County. A roadside interview with the driver Brittany Ann Johnson of Lewisburg Tn. would prove that Johnson was operating the vehicle without a valid driver’s license. Deputy Trey Minor assisted Bradford in removing occupants, Johnson, Chelsie Marie Johnson of Lewisburg, Tommie Deshawn Cannon of Shelbyville, and Marcus O’Neal Johnson also of Lewisburg, after the Deputies noticed a strong smell of what was believed to be marijuana coming from the vehicle. A search of the vehicle...

Warren County authorities have been investigating rumors of a threat circulating on social media that began Thursday night. The threat reportedly involved Warren County High School. But in a statement to parents and students Friday, WCHS Principal Jimmy Walker said the sheriff’s department was notified Thursday night and found no credibility to the rumors. Extra security was on duty at the high school Friday as classes were held as usual. Walker said officials will continue to investigate the...