On Friday July 28, 2017 Tullahoma Police Officer Jacob Smith and other patrolman responded to a home on South Jackson St in reference to a domestic situation. According the arrest warrant, upon arrival officers made contact with a male victim that had been stabbed multiple times with a large kitchen knife. The victim is allegedly the boyfriend of Marie Ann Martin age 49 of South Jackson St Tullahoma. The victim was transported from the scene by ambulance. The arrest warrant goes onto state that Martin admitted to stabbing the victim. Martin was charged by Officer Smith with aggravated assault...

Around mid-July there was a report of vandalism at the Viola Cemetery when several tombstones were knocked over and a hole on top of a grave had been dug approximately four to five feet deep. On July 24th 2017 a second vandalism to the Viola Cemetery was reported to the Warren County Sheriff’s Department. The second vandalism that was reported involved 24 headstones that were either damaged or destroyed. The complainant reported witnessing a mid-2000’s model white Nissan Altima with an old style Tennessee license plate leaving the cemetery when the damages were discovered. If anyone has any information...

Gas prices saw another round of increases last week. Tennessee gas prices averaged $2.08 on Sunday. The state average is 3 cents more than last week and 18 cents more than this time last year. The price for regular unleaded is below $2 a gallon at fewer than 25 percent of gas stations in Tennessee. The national average price for regular unleaded was $2.31 Sunday. After climbing 3 cents in the past week, the national average is now 16 cents more than this time last year. So far this year, gas prices have averaged $2.32. As of Tuesday afternoon...

A 30-year old-Shelbyville woman told Murfreesboro Police she was raped on Chaffin Place. The victim, who was in custody at the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department at the time of the report, told Officer Robert Jamison last Thursday, she was with two black subjects in the overflow parking lot of Cracker Barrel. She reports they prepared her a shot of “ice” and that’s the last thing she remembers until waking up six hours later in the parking lot of a South Church Street gas station. Detectives were notified of the reported rape and a description of the suspects, including nicknames....

Governor Bill Haslam has proclaimed this week as Safety and Health in the Workplace Week in Tennessee. The Governor’s proclamation coincides with the 40th anniversary of the Tennessee Safety and Health Conference, which started Sunday in Nashville. Each year Tennessee workers are injured or die as a result of workplace accidents or illness. As of today, 21 persons have died in Tennessee this year after they were involved in an accident while working. The Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration (TOSHA) regulates workplace safety and health, investigates accidents, and encourages safe working conditions through training. An education advocacy group’s...

While the U.S. Senate battles over its version of a bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act – uncertainty about the future of health care is impacting local leaders. The topic is among those being discussed this week at the National Association of Counties’ annual conference in Columbus, Ohio. Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell says with the nation’s counties investing $80 billion annually in community health – concern about what happens in Washington transcends party lines. “We certainly have different political representations in our group, but yet we all face the same issue of how are...