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We’ve known for weeks that sequestration would impact the Air Force civilian workforce because of a mandatory furlough one day a week without pay for six months. That equals to 20 percent of a civilian’s pay and a serious financial impact of government-imposed sequestration. Up until this past week the impact of sequestration was not [...]
Franklin County authorities discovered the body of a Cowan, Tenn. resident Sunday in a field adjacent to Jackson Cemetery. The body has been identified as Corey N. Matthews of 714 Tennessee Ave. Cowan. Police had initiated a search for the 26-year-old Cowan resident after family members had contacted authorities concerned because they had not had [...]
Manchester Police are being tight lipped about an apparent accidental shooting of a 3 year old boy this evening. The child reportedly has been flown to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville and it has been reported as being conscious. Sources say that the gun was apparently left unattended by a relative at the 1210 [...]
Sheriff’s Deportment officials in Coffee County, Tenn. have released the identity of a woman found shot to death and burned Saturday near a cave in Summitville, Tenn. Connie Lou Brown, 51, of McMinnville, had Bern identified as the murder victim. She reportedly had been shot in the chest. Her body, including much of her face, [...]
Well, you may already know that over the past week, both Burger King and Jeep got their Twitter accounts hacked. In the case of Burger King, it was a real whopper of a hack! The burger mogul’s profile photo got changed to a mac-in’ big yellow M, and began tweeting support of McDonald’s – to [...]
A Coffee County jury has found Marcus Wade guilty in the murders of two men in October of 2010. The nearly two-week long trial drag out hours of testimony from witnesses and forensics experts in locating times and places off cell phones. There was no physical forensic evidence found at the scene of the crime [...]
In the typical quirky Bonnaroo way, the Manchester, Tenn.-based festival announced its 2013 line-up on YouTube today as Weird Al Yankovich trotted out the names of former Beetle, Sir Paul McCartney, Mumford & Sons, Rock King Tom Petty and the Haertbreakers, electronica god Pretty Lights, Bjork, and ZZ Top.
The trial of a Winchester man continues next week in Coffee County Circuit Court as jurors plod through hours of taped interviews between police investigators and witnesses in the Oct. 30, 2010 double murder.
A Manchester woman has been killed in an apparent domestic violence attack at her home. Carla Pearman, formally Carla Dillard, of Manchester, was found in her bed inside her Murfreesborro home on Valentine’s Day.
Well, it happened once already… On Thursday, the universe practically exploded with tweets and status updates raging about the Big Blue F’s global internet chaos. The hubub didn’t last long, but it was enough to get the attention of nearly every serious user of the net. “What happened,” you ask? Well, not much, actually almost [...]
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