Prices at the pump are moving lower, but face upward pressure due to increased oil prices. According to AAA, the Auto Club Group, Crude oil reached 11-month highs last week and that could lead to higher gasoline prices. Although last week’s shift in oil prices was not dramatic and wholesale prices are lower than a week ago, so it’s possible pump prices could get cheaper. The average price in Tennessee declined for its fourth consecutive day on Sunday, declining one and a half cents during that time. The average price for gasoline is $2.19 in Tennessee and in Coffee...

Tennessee tax revenues exceeded budgeted estimates in May, driven primarily by sales taxes. Department of Finance and Administration Commissioner Larry Martin announced that overall May revenues were $1.0 billion, which is $41.3 million more than the state budgeted. Sales taxes were $33.5 million more than the estimate for May and were 6.49% more than May 2015. May receipts reflect retail business activity that occurred in April. For ten months, revenues are $345.0 million higher than estimated. The year-to-date growth rate for ten months was 7.81%. Year-to-date revenues for ten months were $798.4 million more than the budgeted estimate. The...

Last week, Nissan announced the winners of its annual Nissan Scholarship Program, awarding six middle Tennessee high school seniors renewable grants ranging from $1,000 to $3,750 per year. The 2016 winners included Joshua (Mill) Harner from Coffee County Central High School, who will attend the University of the South in Sewanee. The program is offered to dependent sons and daughters of full-time Nissan employees who work at the company’s vehicle assembly, battery and powertrain operations located in Smyrna and Decherd, Tenn. The funds can be applied to tuition, fees, books, supplies and equipment required for the course load. The...

A male pedestrian that was allegedly in Manchester for the Bonnaroo Music Festival was killed early Saturday morning on Interstate 24 around the 111 mile-marker. According to Tennessee Highway Patrolman Randy Euler, Casey J Young age 22 of Louisville, KY was in the median around 1 a.m. for an unknown reason and ran into the eastbound lanes of the interstate into the side of a 2017 18-wheeler driven by a man from Missouri. Young then apparently fell to the ground and was then struck by a 1996 Jeep driven by a man from Hillsboro. The state trooper’s report says...

Drug arrests are a common site each year at Bonnaroo and this year was no different. The following are the larger arrests at the event; On Thursday, Brian Anthony Wiley and Trevor Franklin Watson III, both from Chattanooga were allegedly caught with a very large amount of drugs. Authorities received information that Wiley and Watson were allegedly selling drugs at the festival. Coffee County deputies allegedly found Wiley to be in possession of approximately 202 jars of THC oil, weighing approximately 15 milliliters; two bags of mushrooms, weighing approximately seven grams each; three bags with approximately 60 panes of...

A fire damaged a home at 640 Louis Perry Lane on Friday afternoon in the North Coffee community in Coffee County. One person was at home at the time of the fire, but no one was injured. The flames and smoke did heavy damage to the home. The North Coffee Fire Department and other volunteer fire units responded to the blaze just before 1 p.m. Coffee County Sheriff’s deputies and Coffee County Emergency Services also reported to the...

State prison officials say they are keeping a controversial shift schedule that critics have blamed for understaffing and violence. Correction Department spokeswoman Neysa Taylor says the 28-day schedule won’t change, although facilities may now use 12-hour shifts or 8.5-hours shifts, depending on their needs. Correction Commissioner Derrick Schofield in October told the Senate Corrections Subcommittee the department would survey workers about schedule preferences after an audit recommended changing to a 14-day schedule with 12-hour shifts. The Correction Department requested the audit following a public outcry over violence that workers blamed on understaffing tied to the 28-day schedule. Previously correction...