The parking lot at the Coffee County Administrative Plaza on McArthur Drive in Manchester will be closed this weekend (July 21 night through 23) starting Friday evening around 5:30 p.m. This is due to pavement striping being performed. There will be access to the doctor office at the entrance of the...

The Coffee County Sheriff’s Department has issued a missing child alert. Keana Watters age 17 of Coffee County has been missing since June 30, 2017. Watters was last seen at her residence. She is a white female standing 5’4” and weighing 118lbs with brown hair and eyes. There is no known last clothing description nor direction of travel. If you have any information please contact Investigator Jason Dendy at the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department at...

A resident of East Moore Street in Tullahoma reported that she woke up to a person in her apartment on Monday, July 17. April Pool told Tullahoma Police Officer Jeremiah Kirk that around 4:30 a.m. she woke up to a man with flashlight walking around her apartment. She said when he saw that she was awake the man left. When she checked that her purse with her wallet and cell phone as well as other personnel items from it were taken. Officer Rocky Ruehling is investigating the...

Three juvenile suspects have been charged in connection with a series of break-ins that occurred between June 29th and July 8th in McMinnville. Break-ins were committed at multiple locations, including The Store at Westwood and three separate incidents at McMinnville Civic Center concession stands. Items taken in the burglaries included concession items, cash, portable radios, beer and cigarettes. During their investigation, McMinnville Police received information that led them to the West Riverside area, where they recovered numerous items taken in the burglaries. Police say the portable radios that were taken in an earlier break-in were used to communicate during...

Gov. Bill Haslam visited two West Tennessee cities on Wednesday to award grants to a pair of Tennessee College of Applied Technology institutions. Haslam visited the technology schools in Covington and Ripley. The state is giving Community Development Block Grants to the colleges to develop new training programs and expand current ones. Dollar amounts for the grants were not immediately released. The news release says the schools are “in communities with limited higher education options.” Haslam last month helped break ground at a new Tennessee College of Applied Technology in Winchester. Tennessee adults without a higher education degree or...

Preventing an illness is always better than trying to treat it once it occurs. That’s why doctors with the Tennessee Department of Health encourage people of all ages to talk with their healthcare providers about the immunizations needed for lifelong protection. In recent years, new vaccines have been added to the healthy living toolbox to protect adults better than ever before. Nonetheless, most adults in Tennessee and around the country have not yet taken advantage of them. Tennesseans over age 65 are pretty good about getting pneumococcal and influenza vaccines, but fewer than one in four younger adults whose...

Note: Correction of time of events. There were two fatal accidents that occurred in Coffee County on Monday and an arrest has been made in the hit-and-run case. The first crash took place on Hwy 41 near Hillsboro around 2:30pm Monday afternoon. The crash occurred in the ten thousand block of Highway 41. A pedestrian was struck and killed while checking his mailbox. Arthur J Mantone Jr age 79 of Hillsboro had parked his vehicle in the driveway of his residence on Highway 41. The man then crossed Hwy 41 to check his mail and he was struck by...