Coffee County Board of Education Interview Schedule for New Director of Schools

Monday, March 5, 2012 – Dr. Randall Henion – Lexington, North Carolina

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 – Dr. LaDonna McFall – Jefferson City, Tennessee

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 – Ms. Mary Ann Gemmill – Naples, Florida

Thursday, March 9, 2012 – Mrs. Kim Aaron – Manchester, Tennessee

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 – Dr. James L. Francis – Spring Hill, Tennessee

Friday, March 16, 2012 – Dr. Aaron Del Hosman – Paragould, Arkansas

Suspects in Break-Ins

Tullahoma Police are continuing to investigate the break in of four businesses in the Walmart Shopping Center recently. They feel like they have gotten help from Murfreesboro Police. Police there say that three “professional thieves” broke into three check cashing businesses this week. The thieves usually destroy all video surveillance recorders but in Murfreesboro they missed a camera, which captured their pictures.
One witness reported seeing three men matching the descriptions at one of the businesses in a gray Buick four door. The three me are suspected to being involved in the Tullahoma break in as well as Winchester and other towns including some in Alabama.

Suspect In Break-Ins

2nd Picture Of Suspects

Area residents are being victimized by a scam. An individual calls people claiming to be a relative in jail and they need money to get out of jail. They are told to meet an individual and pay money to get the person out of jail. There is also another scam that targets individuals already in jail. The caller claims to be a bondsman and if the victim will meet the caller at a restaurant in Murfreesboro and pay $900 the relative will be released from jail. Sheriff Steve Graves says that the fake bondsman has family information on inmates, which makes them sound legitimate. Sheriff Graves says that the same scam has been in operation in Wilson and Lincoln Counties.

Tuesday marked one year since the disappearance of a Shelbyville mother and teacher.
Officials with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said that although a year has passed, they are still no closer to locating Shelley Mook.
Mook disappeared February 28 after she dropped off her 6-year-old daughter at her ex-husband’s home. Her burned out car was found in Murfreesboro that same night, where she had recently moved.
Police canvassed the area and search the home of Mook’s ex-husband, but all to no avail.
Mook was presumed dead– but investigators say they need to find her body before they can charge anyone.
The reward for information in her case now totals $20,000.

Early voting is now complete and total numbers for Coffee County for the Super Tuesday election March 6 are light.
1,165 Coffee Countians cast their ballots in the early voting. That breaks down to 974 republicans and 191 democrats.
If you did not make it to early voting polls will be open from 8am-7pm this coming Tuesday. Remember your ID.

Motorcyclists will have to wait another year to renew their efforts to do away with Tennessee’s helmet law.
Republican Representative Judd Matheny of Tullahoma on Tuesday told the House Transportation Subcommittee that he’s withdrawing his bill seeking to end helmet requirements for adult riders. Supporters question the safety benefits of helmets and argued that ending the law would boost motorcycle tourism to Tennessee. But a legislative analysis of the measure projects that changing the law would lead to an increase in traumatic brain injuries, carrying a $1.1 million price tag for TennCare. The state’s expanded Medicaid system spent $3.1 million to treat motorcycle accidents in the most recent budget year, including $1.8 million on brain injuries.

Texting the wrong person resulted in a Winchester man being arrested in Shelbyville. Shannon Dewayne Miller was arrested Tuesday for texting what he thought was a 16-year-old girl who turned out to be an employee of the Bedford County Sheriff’s Department. According to the Shelbyville Times Gazette, Bedford County authorities, say the texts started Monday night. Investigators say that he sent several texts to a male civilian employee of the sheriff’s department. After he had sent several text he was told that he was sending them to the wrong number, but he continued to text. According to Bedford County investigators Miller then asked if the person receiving the text was a female. The sheriff’s department employee told him yes. According to investigators the text then became sexually explicit including explicit photos. A meeting was set up in Shelbyville. When he arrived at the store to meet the “teen” he was met by Bedford County Sheriff’s deputies. He attempted to leave the area but deputies blocked him in.