The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office is attempting to identify a male subject. The individual allegedly entered EZ Mart and then traveled to Tullahoma and attempted to cash in a stolen lottery ticket. The male then forced his way into the Dollar General store on Highway 50 in Franklin County. Anyone having any information is asked to contact Investigator Todd Hindman at the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office at 931-962-0123 or Crime Stoppers at...

The body of a man who was reported missing out of Grundy County last month was found Monday. Sheriff Clint Shrum says the body that was found in Grundy Forest is identified as 25-year-old Brandon Lee Price of Tracy City. Price was reported missing by his family on January 6. “The preliminary investigation does not give us any reason to believe there was foul play, but we will not rule anything out until the autopsy has been completed”, stated Shrum. The Sheriff says a hiker found Price’s body in an area between Werner Point and Sycamore Falls. Investigators originally...

Gov. Bill Haslam says the state’s move to require all major online vendors to collect sales taxes on purchases made in Tennessee has drawn a legal challenge. Under current federal law, states are only allowed to require sales taxes to be collected by companies that also have a physical presence within the state. The Haslam tax rule extends that requirement to all retailers with sales of more than $500,000 per year in Tennessee. The Republican governor says the legal challenge was filed late last week after the state sent out notices to companies about the change. Haslam spokeswoman Jennifer...

The former Sheriff of Rutherford County is now in a federal penitentiary and out of the jail he was being held in that was located in Grayson County, Kentucky. Robert Arnold was being held away from the general jail population in the county operated facility. According to the Murfreesboro Post, “U.S. District Judge Kevin Sharp approved of the move into a pod with three other inmates as long as the jail gave the OK.” Arnold plead guilty in January to wire fraud, honest services fraud and extortion in a 14-count federal indictment. He will officially be sentenced on May...

Senate Speaker Pro Tem Jim Tracy (R-Shelbyville) has filed legislation requiring photos to be added to the state’s Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards, the method used for delivering Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to eligible Tennesseans. The bill aims to deter theft and the selling or trafficking of the cards, while ensuring eligible Tennesseans continue to receive the assistance they need. EBT is an on-line system in which SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, and cash assistance benefits are stored in a central computer database and electronically accessed by recipients at a point-of-sale machine via reusable plastic cards. Families...

On Saturday Coffee County Deputy Kevin Smith stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation on Highway 55. Upon making contact with a female subject gave the deputy identification of another person. When the officer asked if there was anything in the car he needed to know about the woman handed him a black powder pistol and a pink container containing 3 grams of methamphetamine, needles and baggies. After gaining consent to search the car, deputies found another set of digital scales and brass knuckles. The vehicle she was operating was shown to be stolen out of Florida. The woman...

Shelbyville Police say Methamphetamine use drove the manufacture of a large number of counterfeit bills passed in Shelbyville over the past few weeks. Five suspects are in custody – William Wesley Bates, 46, whose address is listed on jail records as America’s Best Value Inn, North Cannon Boulevard; Aaron Zane Little, 33, of Murfreesboro; James Raymond Evans, Jr., 24, of 231 South Trailer Park; Mika Jean O’Neal 36, of East Lane Street, all charged with criminal simulation and being held on $150,000 bonds at Bedford County Jail — and Ashley Taylor Brown, 21, of Raby Avenue, charged with criminal...

A Tennessee lawmaker has been hoping to change some minds about the use of medical marijuana in the state. Representative Jeremy Faison has been working for three years gathering information and even visiting grow operations in Colorado. He has now drafted an extensive 52-page bill that covers everything from seed to delivery. The bill would allow for 50 growers, and the first 15 have to go to the most rural areas. Faison said one grow could produce $20 million in revenue, plus 150 to 200 jobs. The bill also allowed for ten qualifying diseases, including PTSD, cancer, and depression....