Robertson Co. News

A Greenbrier man is in the Robertson County Jail under a $110,000 bond.  Greenbrier Police say 58-year-old Ricky Murry Cohea of Greenbrier, was already in jail facing two counts of stalking when he was indicted for two counts of Attempted Kidnapping. Two adult victims and both were unharmed during the alleged stalking and Attempted Kidnapping. Cohea is a registered sex offender and was on probation when he was arrested.

The Tennessee Department of Health reported three-thousand-161 new cases of COVID-19 yesterday, bringing the total since the outbreak began to over 264-thousand-500.  Over two dozen new coronavirus-related deaths were reported.  Over 33-hundred deaths have been attributed to COVID-19 since the outbreak began. Robertson County has had 2,729 COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began, 2,519 have recovered, and 43 have died from the coronavirus in Robertson County.

Voters casting their ballots today need to allow themselves plenty of time.  Robertson county polls will close at 7 o’clock. Tonight.  The Tennessee Secretary of State’s Office says the longest lines form early in the morning, around lunch time, and around 5 o’clock when people are getting off of work.  About two-million-300-thousand Tennesseans cast their ballots during early voting.

Stay healthy.  A Tennessee doctor is expressing concern about the potential for a spike in coronavirus cases during the holidays.  Infectious disease specialist Dr. Juli Horton of TriStar Medical Center in Nashville says she’s concerned the hospital will be slammed in December, after Thanksgiving.  Dr. Horton says wearing a mask and social distancing is the best way to prevent the spread of the disease but that you can’t wear a mask while eating your turkey dinner.  She says having an infected person at your holiday celebration who is asymptomatic is a worst-case scenario. She also says continue to wash your hands.