The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) wants to warn families about an alarming sextortion trend. The National Center for Missing and Exploiting Children saw a 35 percent increase in suspected child exploitation from 2020 to 2021. Sextortion is a criminal act where an adult tricks a child into creating and sending explicit photos or videos. …
The Impact of TennCare: A Survey of Recipients in 2022, shows that 95 percent of TennCare recipients were happy with the program’s quality of care, marking the 14th straight year in which satisfaction with TennCare exceeded 90 percent. “The continued high satisfaction rate from our TennCare members reflects the strong partnership with our TennCare providers and our shared …
In high school basketball on Monday night Coffee County hosted Lincoln County in a pair of games. The Lady Raiders got off to a cold start going the first 6 minutes of play before they scored. At the end of the first Coffee County trailed 10-3. After Head Coach Joe Pat Cope had an intense …
On Monday night the Westwood Lady Rockets took on Community in middle school basketball. In a close contest Westwood was able to pull out the win 24-22. Jules Ferrell led the way with 13 followed by Reece Finch with 5. In the boys’ game the Westwood Rockets were able to put away the Community Vikings …
A Marion County Sheriff’s Office sergeant has been arrested and charged with DUI. Marion County Sheriff Bo Burnette confirmed that Monteagle Police arrested Sergeant Chris Ladd Sunday night. As officers tried to stop the vehicle, the report says the driver “evaded and turned off the vehicle lights.” The driver ended up crashing into a guardrail. …
Tims Ford Lake clean up took place on Saturday. Franklin County EMA and Rescue used their Tugboat along with the Tims Ford Council and the youth from Tennessee B.A.S.S. Nation. They removed over 9,000 lbs. of debris from the lake and abandon docks were towed. Martin Tyler of Life Time Docks broke them down for …
The federal government has delayed its enforcement of REAL ID by two years, giving residents more time to get ID cards that comply with the security requirements. The Department of Homeland Security announced Monday that the full enforcement date was pushed from May 3, 2023, to May 7, 2025. Under the change, federal agencies, including …
All volunteer fire departments were paged to a fire in the Lakewood Park community on Friday afternoon for a house fire. According witnesses a loud explosion was heard just before the home burst into flames. Authorities say an 82 year-old female was injured in the fire and was airlifted to the hospital. Coffee County EMS, …
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Stuart McWhorter recently approved $27.3 million in Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), which will assist communities with infrastructure improvements, housing rehabilitations and health and safety initiatives. Local Grants: Coffee County Health Department Equipment $420,000 Normandy Local Street Improvement Project $239,543 Palmer (Grundy Co.) Fire …
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The Sportsmen and Businessmen Club of Coffee County made two donations on Friday to help those in need during the holiday season. One of the donations went to the Gene Taylor and Steve Graves Christmas foundation and the other went to the Manchester Police department’s Angel Tree program. Both groups showed great appreciation for the …
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