Graduation will be held tonight (May 26) at 7pm night for Coffee County High School seniors. A crowd estimated of over 5,000 will watch graduates accept their diplomas behind Raider Academy in Manchester at Carden-Jerrell Field. Around 460 seniors will take their next step toward a future full of expectations as they will hear from fellow classmates; Valedictorian – Baylee Nester and Salutatorian – Kaylee Skipper. 
Many of the grads will take a break from school for a short period before heading off to college, and others will jump right into the workforce.
The 2017-2018 school year begins in just over...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department are asking for the public’s assistance in providing information about a homicide that took place on Memorial Day 11 years ago. At the request of then-17th District Attorney General Mike McCowan, TBI Special Agents were requested to work with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department in investigating the homicide of 79-year-old Hosea “Junior” Prince. The Mimosa resident was found deceased behind shrubs in his front yard on May 30th, the morning after Memorial Day, in 2006. Mr. Prince lived at 445 Mimosa Road, and was last seen doing yard...

The U.S. Senate has voted to name Nashville’s new federal courthouse after former Sen. Fred Thompson, the late actor who appeared in at least 20 movies and in the TV series “Law & Order.” Sen. Lamar Alexander announced the Senate vote Wednesday on a resolution already passed by the House, leaving the final decision to President Donald Trump. Thompson died at 73 in 2015. A Tennessee-trained lawyer and prosecutor, Thompson was a hard-driving Senate counsel during the Watergate hearings and later a popular actor and fleeting presidential hopeful in 2008. He commanded audiences with a booming voice, folksy charisma...

A new report shows that suicides in Tennessee are increasing with middle-aged people being most at risk. The report by the Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network shows that suicides increased by nearly 13 percent in 2015, the latest year figures available. Three people die on average every day in Tennessee from suicide and it is the third-leading cause of death for young people age 10 to 19. Those who are middle age, especially white males, tend to be at the most risk, the report says, and Tennesseans aged 45 to 64 years old are more than three times more likely...

Tennessee general fund tax collections have exceeded expectations by $159 million in April. The revenues reflecting economic activity in the previous month include corporate franchise and excise tax collections that came in at $141 million higher than projections. Sales taxes beat estimates by another $34 million. Through the first nine months of the budget year, general fund tax collections beat budgeted estimates by $579 million. The state’s healthy surpluses were frequently cited by opponents of Gov. Bill Haslam’s 6-cent gas tax increase that was signed into law earlier this month. But supporters of the governor’s transportation plan argued that...