The 16th Annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival ended late Sunday night and Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves says his department wrote 295 citations during Bonnaroo 2017. The number is up somewhat from 2016 when deputies wrote 277 citations. Graves added that the citation number is about normal for the festival. Manchester Police Chief Mark Yother says his department wrote over 75 citations, increasing from the around 50 written at last year’s festival. Tennessee Highway Patrol numbers are always released at a later date. Overall there were 42 Bonnaroo related arrests by all law enforcement combined, which was up...

State Rep. Judd Matheny (R-Tullahoma) says he is running for Congress, saying he is 100 percent in the race for Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District. Matheny said in an interview that he is not making a formal announcement until current Congresswoman Diane Black announces for governor. Rep. Diane Black (R-TN), who currently represents the 6th Congressional District, is considered likely to enter the race for the Republican nomination for governor in 2018. Matheny said, “If Diane Black does not run for governor, I will not run for the 6th Congressional district seat, and will instead run for re-election to the...

Tennessee is doing something right when it comes to its children. The state is seeing improvements for children in education, health and economic well-being according to the Annie E. Casey 2017 KIDS COUNT Data Book released Tuesday. The state ranks 35th in the country when it comes to overall well-being, up from 38th last year. Linda O’Neal, executive director of the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, says the results are promising. “We have had improvements in all indicators,” she says. “A slight reduction in children in poverty. We have more children whose parents have secure employment and fewer...

South Jackson Civic Center’s Theatre Series will present “Sister Act” scored by award-winning composer Alan Menken. Show director Erik Petersen invites singing actors to try out on Saturday, July 15, at 10:00 a.m. and Sunday July 16, at 2:00 p.m. in the Center’s annex rehearsal hall in Tullahoma. The cast consists of nine women of all ages and seven men of all ages. Those auditioning are asked to bring a head shot and have a two-minute song prepared. A piano, CD player, and an auxiliary cord for phones and MP3 will be available. The show dates are November 9,...

The Franklin County School Board decided in a split vote Monday to avoid a school director candidate search and give the position to current employee, Stanley Bean. Bean, the school system’s director of student support services and facilities who also serves as county wide athletic director, will replace Dr. Amie Lonas who has accepted a position as dean of academic affairs at the Joint Forces Staff College at Norfolk,...

A new economic report shows housing prices are increasing across the state and rising higher than the rest of the U.S. A report released by the Middle Tennessee State University Business and Economic Research Center shows the cost of buying a home went up in the last year in every area of the state tracked, with Nashville seeing the most dramatic increase. The report says housing prices rose more than 10 percent in the Nashville area in the last year. But it also showed that the cost of buying a home in the Clarksville and Knoxville areas rose more...

Three Tennessee county prosecutors and the guardian of a baby born dependent on drugs have filed a lawsuit against the makers of several opioid drugs, accusing the companies of unleashing an epidemic by deceptive marketing practices that downplayed the addiction risks with their painkillers. The suit was filed Tuesday by three conservative district attorneys who represent areas in the mountainous region of upper east Tennessee in Appalachia, which has been the epicenter of the prescription drug epidemic that has ravaged the country. The lawsuit sites research showing that Tennessee has the second highest statewide opioid prescription rate in the...

To help keep contraband from being smuggled into state correction facilities, the Tennessee Department of Correction asked the Federal Communications Commission to lift its ban on cell phone-jamming technologies in jails and prisons. They also partnered with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, saying they’d be cracking down on offenders. TDOC officials said smuggling is out of control in state facilities during a joint press conference on Monday at the Riverbend Maximum Security Prison. Law enforcement typically finds drugs, weapons or cell phones in these cases. Recently, law enforcement searched 300 cars across Tennessee and found a number of items...