A price for a barrel of oil prices yo-yoed last week. Crude prices were on an upward path after the positive jobs report, but the price surge came to a halt after the value of the dollar rose against other currencies. Tensions overseas also countered the bearish fundamentals and have helped to keep oil prices elevated.
U.S. output of crude oil rose again last week, pushing supplies to an 82-year high, according to the Energy Information Administration. Pump prices will likely continue the up and down price fluctuations as they have since the start of May.
A barrel of oil closed Friday at $96.04 on the New York Mercantile Exchange 43 cents more than the week prior.
The national average price of regular unleaded gasoline is $3.58, 6 cents more than last week. Tennessee’s average of $3.25 remains unchanged. In Manchester, regular gas at many discounters was selling for $3.14 per gallon, which is the same price as last week. In Tullahoma the low price is $3.12 up 2-cents from last week.

The National Weather Service Office in Nashville said the temperature dipped to 39 degrees on Monday morning, breaking the 1997 record of 41 degrees for the date. Coffee County also set a new record low according to the Tullahoma Utilities Board weather station. The old record was 38 degrees set in 1951. Monday morning’s low was 37, set at 5:56AM.
At least one reporting station dropped below freezing. Up on the Cumberland Plateau, Crossville shivered with 29 degrees.

Records released by the state Department of Children’s Services showing 42 cases where children died or nearly died after the agency had some type of involvement with them shows that half of the kids were under 1 year old. Some of the records didn’t even include the child’s age.
A Nashville judge ordered the files released on Friday after a group of media organizations, led by the Tennessean and including the Associated Press, sued to get access to them.
The Tennessean is reporting that records show that a 3- or 4-month-old infant girl identified as “Case No. 1″ died after her father whipped her with a belt so she’d stop crying.
1 of the files shows that a 14-year-old boy died when his parents delayed seeking emergency medical treatment when the child was having shortness of breath. A 2-month-old died after suffering from a brain injury. In that case, and several others, the DCS records drew no conclusions about whether the child died as a result of abuse or neglect and the files listed the cause of death as “undetermined” and said the perpetrator was “unknown.”
The files show children died from abuse, neglect, health problems, drowning and a house fire.
Gov. Bill Haslam told The Tennessean on Saturday that he had not had a chance to look into the judge’s concerns but was going to. The governor said he was going to reserve judgment about the conduct of the agency that is charged with keeping some of the state’s most vulnerable children safe.
At least 9 of the cases involved children who were sick with cancer, suffered from birth defects or had alcohol and drug withdrawal symptoms.

The Manchester Police Department is actively investigating numerous cases of sexual phone harassment from one particular phone number and has identified a person of interest. However, we believe there are more female victims in this case and possibly could also be female juvenile victims. If you have received inappropriate text and/or picture messages from a phone number of (931) 434-8489 please save the messages and contact the Manchester Police Department @ 931-728-2099. You may speak to any Investigator at the Manchester Police Department about this matter. Your assistance is very important and very much appreciated.
On Friday afternoon a man admitted to sending lewd pictures and messages. His name will not been released until police are positive there are no more victims. Charges are pending.

On March 24 the badly beaten body of Corey Matthews was found in a field next to Jackson Cemetery in Cowan, TN.
The four charged with first-degree murder and felony murder were Todd E. Dalton, 39, John Corey Lanier, 26, David Gordon Jenkins, 46, all of Manchester and Coty Keith Holmes, 25, Hillsboro. They were indicted on April 8 by a special session of the county’s Grand Jury. Jenkins has so far escaped capture. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has increased the reward for the remaining at large fugitive, David Gordon Jenkins. The amount now stands at $2,500.
Judge Thomas Graham at first set a bail for Dalton at $100,000 and later that amount was later changed to $500,000.
An attorney representing Coty Keith Holmes entered a plea of not guilty in the slaying. Defendant Holmes was allowed not to appear in court because of a conflict with his co-counsel. A bond amount was not set in his case.

A violent crash Thursday night in Warren County killed a teenage girl and injured four others.
The oldest victim is 20, and the youngest was 15 years old.
Ashlyn Barnes of McMinnville who died in the crash was a passenger in the Chevy Blazer that was traveling west bound on Vervilla Road around 8:45 p.m.
The SUV plowed through a fence then went several hundred feet through a field before slamming into the tree and uprooting it.
One survivor was airlifted to Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville. The other three were airlifted to a hospital in Chattanooga.
There were three boys and two girls inside the Blazer.
According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Barnes was not wearing a seat belt when the SUV crashed.