A man and woman wanted in connection to the murders of three people at a pawn shop in Jackson, Mississippi over the weekend were spotted earlier this week in Coffee County. A state trooper spotted Jamison Townsend and her boyfriend, Joshua Garcia, in Coffee County earlier this week, but they sped off. The trooper lost sight of the vehicle a short time later. The duo were captured in Kansas early Wednesday after an interstate chase. Deputies tried to stop the red Dodge Charger with no displayed registration on Interstate 70, but the car sped away and later crashed off...

Census estimates show Tennessee’s population has grown in the past year by about 56,000 people. The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2016 estimate for Tennessee is 6,651,194, which is about 0.9 percent more than 2015. Nationally, the population grew by about 0.7 percent in the past year. Between 2000 and 2010, Tennessee’s population grew by 11.5 percent. The new estimates show the state’s population has grown by another 300,000 people, or nearly 5 percent, since 2010. Eight states lost population, led by Illinois, where the number of people declined by more than 37,000, or 0.3...

While Gov. Bill Haslam says he’s ready to unveil his plan to boost road funding in Tennessee, he says he’s putting off making any proposal public until fellow Republicans in the Legislature have time to explore their own funding ideas. Lawmakers convene the 110th General Assembly for their organizational session on Jan. 10, but aren’t scheduled to get down to their regular business until Jan. 30 when Haslam is expected to deliver his annual state spending plan. Haslam has argued new funding is needed to tackle a $6 billion backlog in road projects. The gas tax was last raised...

David Milton Pryor, 37, of Mallery Boyoton Road, Manchester was arrested on Monday (Dec. 19) on charges of domestic violence and resisting arrest following an incident at Busy Corner Truck Stop in Manchester. Pryor, was arrested by Coffee County Deputy Antonio Frost. According to an arrest warrant, officers were dispatched to the Busy Corner Truck Stop to a domestic violence. According to the warrant, the woman told officers that Pryor “severally beat her. The warrant states that the she sustained injuries to her face, eyes, back, her wrist and hands. The woman was taken to Unity Medical Center for...

A North Washington Street man was arrested after an incident at his residence. William Edward Mann, 27, of North Washington Street, Tullahoma was charged with domestic violence and his bond was set at $2,500. On Dec. 19 Mann was accused of getting into an argument with a female and punching her several times in the face as well as choking her. A report by Officer Tommy Elliott states that he observed bruising on the woman’s eye as well as redness on her check. Mann was booked in at the Coffee County...

We have an update on story we brought you last week. Special Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, working alongside investigators from the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office, have arrested and charged a Murfreesboro man in connection to a homicide earlier this month in the Shelbyville area. At the request of 17th District Attorney General Rob Carter, TBI Agents joined authorities in Bedford County in investigating the circumstances leading to December 2nd death of Timothy Perkins in his home on Highway 231 North. During the course of the investigation, authorities developed information leading to Jeremy Fleming age 27 as...

The more than 181,000 Tennesseans who receive Social Security benefits and thousands who receive Medicare could see cuts if new rules and leadership at the federal level are put in place. New budget rules proposed for Congress could bring deep, automatic cuts to benefit programs for seniors who had been exempt from those kinds of cuts until now. House budget chair Tom Price has said he would like to see reductions in Social Security and Medicare benefits. David Reich, senior fellow with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said Price has proposed strict caps on all spending that...