Last week we told you about a warning from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation concerning fake Percocet pills. Johnny Williams, 30 of Murfreesboro was arrested on Friday and charged with one count of sale of schedule II controlled substance and booked into the Rutherford County Jail on a $100,000 bond. More charges are possible. The TBI says that counterfeit Percocet pills laced with Fentanyl have resulted in the deaths of three individuals and have accounted for as many as 15 other drug overdoses in Rutherford County The TBI along with detectives from the Murfreesboro Police Department began tracking the...

Tullahoma Parks and Recreation has partnered with the Arnold Engineering Development Complex’s (AEDC) STEM Center to host the Discover Dome. This is a planetarium equipped with STEM (Science – Technology – Engineering – Mathematics) surround sound/videos geared toward certain grade levels. While seated in the dome at C.D. Stamps Community Center, everyone will be taken to a “Galaxy Far, Far, Away.” There will be three forty-five minute showings on July 15, 2016. The schedule starts with a 10:30 am viewing followed by an 11:15 am showing geared toward elementary school aged children. The last show at 12:00 pm is...

Motlow State Community College will administer the complete Residual ACT Assessment Test on July 20, July 29, and Aug. 5, from 8:30 a.m. – noon; and on Aug. 4, from 12:30 – 4 p.m. The test will be administered in room 1043 of the Crouch Center on the Moore County campus. Applicants under 21 years of age planning to attend Motlow should register for the ACT test. All applicants taking the ACT must have an admission application on file prior to taking the test. Applicants are required to complete an application as soon as possible to be eligible for...

Recently, there have been reports of people placing non-mail items that did not bear U.S. postage in local mailboxes, including business locations. One item that appeared in certain mailboxes was very critical of a candidate running for Alderman in Manchester. WMSR News spoke with the Manchester Postmaster Lonnie M. Williams and he said that mail is not placed in mailboxes by delivery personnel without postage. The U.S. Postal Service recognizes customers may place non-mail items into mailboxes as a convenient way of “dropping something off,” but those items may cause a smaller mailbox to become full. When a mailbox...

Special Agents with the Drug Investigation Division of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation are warning the public about a recent dramatic increase in the prevalence of counterfeit prescription drugs in Tennessee. In recent days, Agents in the Middle Tennessee area have seen a spike in adulterated Percocet pills being sold on the street and are warning users that these counterfeit pills have deadly consequences. Active and ongoing investigations continue into the source of these pills. These counterfeit drugs have a very similar look and appearance to legitimate Percocet pills, but contain potentially lethal ingredients that cause law enforcement officials...

Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands, Tennessee’s largest non-profit law firm has announced that it has launched its Gilbert Family Fellowship, a program that will provide free civil legal services to children and young adults. The program is made possible by a $100,000 donation from Harris A. Gilbert, a longtime supporter of Legal Aid Society and an attorney with Wyatt Tarrant & Combs LLP, with support from his children. The funds will be used over a two- to three-year time period to build a program across 48 counties that identifies legal issues children and young adults...

In a continuing effort to locate people that are wanted by authorities, the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department ask for the public’s help. On Tuesday we posted and the media stated that authorities were looking for Devan Marquez Porter. The 21 year-old was brought into custody by the Tullahoma Police Department. The sheriff’s department thanks them for their help. Also a thank you goes out to the public and the media for your assistance as...

Local authorities say 46 year-old Tracey Parton of M.G. England Rd in Manchester was driving a box type truck on Tuesday afternoon that reportedly forced some vehicles off the road in Manchester, sideswiped vehicles near the Coffee/Warren County line and allegedly struck a pedestrian in Coffee County. In what is being reported as a low-speed pursuit ensued. The pursuit went through a small portion of Coffee County and then moved into Warren County, Cannon County, possibly DeKalb County and back into Coffee County before law enforcement got the vehicle stopped. Officers used spike strips to punctured tires, but the...