Northgate Mall in Tullahoma and Three Star Mall in McMinnville will not be losing one of its main tenants. The J.C. Penney stores are NOT on the list of stores that will be closed by the company. J.C. Penney recently announced it will close 138 stores nationwide to improve profitability. The company said approximately 5,000 positions nationwide will be impacted due to the closures. Three J.C. Penney stores in Tennessee will be closed. They are in Greeneville, Knoxville and Union...

A Grundy County insurance agent has been charged with fraud. The TBI says 46-year-old Troy E. Shrum, of Tracy City, is accused of taking money from several customers as payment for their insurance policies. The TBI says the payments were never sent to the insurance provider, causing the cancellation of customers’ policies. Last week, the Grundy County Grand Jury indicted Shrum on two counts of Theft of Property and two counts of Insurance Fraud. Shrum turned himself in and was booked into the Grundy County Jail on Friday. He was released after posting a $7,500...

Folks in the scientific community in Tennessee and elsewhere are scratching their heads over comments made by the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Scott Pruitt, sworn in as EPA administrator just weeks ago, told reporters last week that carbon dioxide is not a major source of global warming, and he questioned human activity as a culprit. As a professor of Earth Systems Science and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Woods Institute for the Environment, Dr. Noah Diffenbaugh says these claims run counter to vast scientific evidence showing that climate change is real, and that humans are the...

The sun is going to disappear. And no, it is not the end of the world. On August 21, what is being dubbed the “Great American Eclipse” will put us in the dark in parts across the country. It’s been 99 years since a total solar eclipse crossed the United States from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic. It happened on June 8, 1918. To get a great view of the eclipse go to Nashville where it is expected to last one minute and 57 seconds and will start at 1:27...

A Manchester woman was arrested March 14 on drug charges. Teresa Lynn Jacobs, 37, of Murfreesboro Highway, Manchester was charged with manufacturing/delivering/selling/possession of a controlled substance, unlawful drug paraphernalia uses and activities, contraband in a penal institution and driving while in possession of methamphetamines. According to the arrest warrant, Manchester Police Officer Daryn Gadeken stopped the woman on Highway 53 for a traffic violation. She was allegedly found to be in possession of two glass pipes with residue in them and four butane torches commonly used to heat a meth pipe. She also was allegedly found to be in...

Three Tullahoma men were arrested March 14 after they had been reported to be prowling around a residence on East Lincoln Street. Arrested were Gabriel Thomas Carkhuff, 19, of Hamilton Lane, Jacob Alexander Stebbing, 19, Lemont Lane and Derek Allen Mayes, 19, of Riley Creek Road. They were all three charged with unlawful possession of a weapon. According to a report by Tullahoma Police Officer Michael Wilder, police received a call of possible prowler. When the officer arrived he saw three men running from East Lauderdale Street toward East Lincoln Street. He stopped them and spoke with them. After...