A former Grundy County assistant football coach and teacher at Swiss Memorial Elementary School, Thomas “Tommy” Andrews pled guilty on Monday to two counts of aggravated statutory rape. He will be sentenced on August 8. Deputies arrested Andrews, 41, on December 13, 2015 and charged him with one count of aggravated statutory rape and one count of aggravated statutory rape by an authority figure. Grundy County Sheriff Clint Shrum said his department received a complaint and they presented the case to the district attorney’s office before charges were filed”. He was indicted in March of this year. Shrum says...

On Monday Coffee County Deputy Blake Simmons says he observed a vehicle allegedly run a stop sign on the Woodbury Highway and Rigney Road. The arrest warrant says that Simmons initiated a traffic stop and upon checking the female’s driving privilege it was discovered she was a habitual traffic offender 2nd offense and was driving on a revoked license 7th offense. Linda Sue Wilber age 49 of Rutledge Falls Rd Tullahoma was arrested and booked at the Coffee County Jail under a bond of $30,500 and she has a court date of August 8,...

Two employees of K-Mart in Tullahoma were arrested on June 12 for theft of property from the store. Arrested and charged with theft of property were Kristen Dawn Avant, 19, of East Lauderdale Street and America Jane Colgrove, 30, of East Lauderdale Street. The women were arrested after store manager Edsel Manuel reported to Tullahoma Police Officer Joshua Yates that the two had been taking items from the store. He stated that both women were price checking items but not scanning to pay for them. According to the police report, Avant allegedly took $371 worth of items while Colgrove...

Almost 25 million people in the U.S. at any given time are living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, according to the support and advocacy group PTSD United. That includes thousands of Tennesseans left with the illness from a traumatic event such as a crime, natural disaster or events surrounding military service. Dr. Matthew Friedman, a senior adviser with the Veterans Administration’s National Center for PTSD, says the diagnosis is only part of seeking help. “On the one hand, there are resilient people who meet the full diagnostic criteria for PTSD, but they can cope with the symptoms, and then...

Gov. Bill Haslam has named longtime state prisons official Tony Parker as the new commissioner of the Department of Correction. Parker replaces Derrick Schofield, who announced earlier this month that he is stepping down to become the executive vice president of a Florida-based prison services provider. Parker is a 33-year veteran of the department who started his career as a correctional officer at the Lake County Regional Correctional Facility in 1983. He was promoted several times until serving as warden at prisons in Tiptonville and Henning. Parker became the correctional administrator of the agency’s West Region in 2011. The...

On Monday in Coffee County, Tennessee Highway Patrolman Lazro Serna stopped a man driving westbound near Exit 111 in Manchester for a traffic violation. In the arrest warrant the Trooper says he made contact with the man who had enlarged pupils, and slurred speech. The warrant says that Robert Jackson Gourley age 21 of Redbud Place NW Concord NC allegedly admitted to smoking marijuana to Trooper Serna and then allegedly admitted to having molly, cocaine, and marijuana in the vehicle inside of a black plastic bag. Serna says gave the subject 4 field sobriety tests and Gourley apparently failed...

On Sunday, around 3:45 p.m., a lone gunman entered Creekside Market on North High Street in Winchester displaying a handgun and did rob the store owner of cash. Corporal Ryan Fuller responded to the scene with other officers. Detective Kelly Gass and Detective Jamie Cox investigated the robbery and started to canvas the surrounding neighborhoods and later in the evening were able to identify a suspect at a residence on North High Street. After further investigation, the Detectives were able to arrest 24 year old David Michael Jordan of 1707 Ovoca Road, in Tullahoma, on charges of Aggravated Robbery...

One of the victims in the mass shooting inside an Orlando nightclub was a graduate of La Vergne High School. WGNS Radio reports that 20 year old Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo graduated from La Vergne High School in May of 2015. The shooting occurred at the Pulse Nightclub early Sunday morning. The nightclub where the shooting occurred was an LGBT club. The shooter was said to be part of the ISIS organization. Before the gunman was killed by police, an American-Afghan terrorist phoned 911 to pledge allegiance to...