The Tennessee State Board of Education has reinstated the teaching license of a former teacher who pleaded guilty to the statutory rape of a student in 2007. The Tennessean reports former Moore County physical education teacher William S. Haynes had his criminal record expunged after serving four years of probation. The state board denied a reinstatement of his license in 2012. He took his case to court and a judge ruled the details of the statutory rape case didn’t meet the criteria to deny a license, and ordered the board to take another vote. The board voted 7-2 in...

Earlier in the school year New Union teachers Betsy Ratliff (Middle, in Purple T-shirt – Slide 1) and Taylor Frame (Right of the picture – Slide 1) made a deal with their students that they would go skydiving if their students met their reading goal of 6,000 Accelerated Reader points for the year.  Well, they met the goal, but at that same time, Mrs. Ratliff found out that she has Breast Cancer – with her treatments underway, she could not jump. So school Principal Michelle Hummel stepped up to the challenge and took Mrs. Ratliff’s place on the skydive!...

Tennessee’s 129th Army Band will be performing a free concert at South Jackson Civic Center on Monday, May 29 at noon. “We want to invite all of Tullahoma and visitors from our surrounding communities to enjoy this patriotic concert,” said Mayor Lane Curlee. “We are very fortunate to host the 129th Army Band for a second time,” said event organizer, Alan Harris. “They enjoyed their time in Tullahoma during last year’s Independence Day Celebration, and they wanted to return and treat our citizens to a free concert.” The 129th is composed of musicians from all over Tennessee. Headquartered in...

A Manchester man has been arrested on multiple charges following an accident on the Old Manchester Highway on May 4. Christopher Randall Bonner, 31, of Stacy Anny Road Manchester was charged with resisting arrest, resisting stop, halt, frisk, failure to obey an officer, leaving the scene of an accident, driving on revoked/suspended license and immediate notice of an accident. According to a report by Coffee County Sheriff’s Corporal Harmon Campbell, the arrest followed Bonner not stopping when Deputy Ben Sneed attempted to stop him while directing traffic at an accident on the Old Manchester Highway. The deputy stated that...

On Monday just before noon, Coffee County Sherriff’s Department personnel responded to a house fire on Fredonia Road. New Union Fire Department had also responded to the scene. A witness told authorities he drove by and saw smoke coming from the roof area of the house. He said he stopped and knocked on the door several time but got no response. The fire department was able to control the fire and cleared the home of smoke. The home owner later arrived and told Corporal Harmon Campbell that his family was out of town since earlier in the...

A resident of East Grundy Street reported to Tullahoma Police that on May 6 he was robbed by four males at gunpoint. According to a report by Officer Tyler Walls, Andrew Johnson Mayton stated that he heard a knock at the door. When he looked out he saw a white female. He opened the door and two black males and a white male forced their way into his residence. He told the officer that one of the black males was carrying a shotgun while the other black male had a pistol. He says he was then forced to the...