Due to illnesses among students and teachers Coffee County Schools and Manchester City Schools are closed Thursday and Friday. ESP closed in both systems. Manchester City School system teachers will need to report Thursday only from 8am – 11am. Schools are also closed on Monday, February 21 for Presidents Day. Dr Ladonna McFall Director of Coffee County Schools said her system had 10% of students out at the beginning of the day on Wednesday and 12% by the end of the day. She said because of illnesses among teachers, it is difficult to find enough...

It has come to the attention of Duck River Electric Member Corporation that one of their members has been contacted by someone claiming to be a representative of the cooperative requesting payment. The member was threatened with disconnection if payment wasn’t made. Fortunately, the member became suspicious and hung up. Do not share identity information with callers. Do not give them credit card numbers or bank account information. If they threaten disconnection of electric service unless you pay over the phone, immediately hang up and call...

We have an update on a story we brought you last week about a man Shelbyville Police were looking for. The Shelbyville Police Department received a tip this week that Joshua N. Brown was inside Burger King on North Main. Detective Cody Swift spotted Brown sitting at a table and approached Brown with the intent to take him into custody. As Detective Swift placed one handcuff on Brown he began to actively resist arrest. Detective Swift noticed during the struggle that Brown had a semiautomatic handgun in his back pocket. After a brief struggle Brown was taken into custody....

The Tennessee Supreme Court has announced that free legal clinics will be held around the state to help citizens who find themselves in need of a lawyer’s advice on matters outside criminal law. It’s all part of the court’s initiative known as Access to Justice, a program aimed at helping a growing number of people find assistance when they can’t afford an attorney. Tennesseans can log on to www.help4tn.org to learn more about the clinics. The program will kick off in mid-March with press conferences in Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis, Jackson and Chattanooga and run into April. Court officials say...

The Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network is working to reach more people who might be in the middle of a crisis and thinking of hurting themselves. They’re partnering with the crisis text line to offer a free text-messaging support line, which would be available 24 hours a day. Anyone who needs help can text TN to 741-741 and they will be connected to a counselor. Not everyone is comfortable voicing their problems, so everyone with the Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network is hoping this will help them reach more people. An estimated 950 Tennesseans die from suicide every year. Suicide is...

Accused killer Connie Sanders King will be in court Wednesday afternoon after being arrested last Thursday night. Mrs King and her husband Troy King were charged with the Nov. 13, 2012 murder of Thomas Colucci of Manchester at a residence they shared in the Pocahontas Road area of Manchester. After the murder and while investigators with the sheriff’s department were searching for the killer of Colucci, Connie King left the state and moved to Florida where she was later arrested. Troy King, who has entered a plea of guilty in the murder, was arrested near San Diego, California. During...