A Tullahoma man was arrested Sept. 6 on sealed indictments for child pornography. Clyde Jefferson Trumbull, 33, of East Lauderdale Street was indicted by the July term of the Coffee County Grand Jury on charges of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. He was booked into the Coffee County Jail on Sept. 6 and his bond was set at $75,000. According to Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott, an agent of the U.S. Homeland Security Agency who works child porn cases forwarded the information to Tullahoma Police Investigator Rana Pawlowski about internet child pornography activity. The investigator started to...

A tip led school administrators to the car of a student parked at Eagleville school in Rutherford County on Friday. Inside the trunk was an assault rifle that school officials describe as unloaded and unassembled. The student was arrested and expelled from school immediately, under a zero-tolerance policy of the Rutherford County School District. The district sent a note to parents Friday afternoon saying, “We are sending you this message to address any rumors before they begin and to let you know that we do not take these matters lightly” Eagleville School on State Route 99, serves a small...

Tennessee’s unemployment rate for August was 3.3 percent, down one-tenth of a percentage point from the previous month. This marks an all-time low for the statewide unemployment rate and August is the seventh consecutive month Tennessee has seen a decline in unemployment. The national unemployment rate increased from 4.3 to 4.4 percent. Over the past year, the state and national rates have declined by 1.5 and five-tenths of a percentage point...

For the third consecutive year, Motlow State Community College has the largest enrollment in school history and is among the fastest growing colleges in Tennessee, according to official enrollment numbers released recently for the fall 2017 semester. Motlow enrolled 6,597 students this fall, a 12.9 percent increase over the 5,841 enrolled during the same period last fall. Final enrollment numbers are based on the preliminary census report from the Tennessee Board of Regents. Full-Time Equivalency (FTE), which is a formula that determines how many students are attending full time, rose almost as dramatically. Motlow’s FTE is 4,481 this year,...

On Friday night Sept. 8, 2017 around 9:30pm Coffee County Sheriff’s Department Corporal Harmon Campbell reported to a burglary in progress at A & G Equipment on the Woodbury Hwy. Campbell requested a K-9 to assist, not knowing if the suspect was on foot. The building was cleared and no one was found in the business. It appeared that the suspect pulled a vehicle inside the gate where he or she made entry. Once inside the suspect removed items from the business. The person or persons involved in this burglary could also be suspects in other cases outside of...

On Wednesday Sept. 13, 2017 Tennessee Highway Patrolman Jason Boles stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation on Interstate 24 going west near mile-marker 113 in Coffee County. The trooper asked the driver for permission to search the vehicle and permission was given. The officer asked the man to get out of the vehicle and according to the arrest warrant, there were two credit cards in the seat where he was sitting. Also found in the vehicle were two credit cards in the console with the subject’s cell phone, two in the subject’s wallet and two more in a...

A new scam is working in Coffee County and the sheriff’s department is warning area residents. According to Sheriff Steve Graves a local person receives a call from an unknown caller and claims that the intended victim has won a prize from Publishers Clearing House. While the sheriff has heard of Publishers Clearing House scams before, this one has a new twist. The scammer tells the intended victim that they have won a prize, but they owe taxes to the Internal Revenue Service. Publishers Clearing House claims on their website that winning is always free and you NEVER have...