Stories from Thursday, May 12, 2005

A tough regular season schedule seems to be paying dividends as Shelbyville's Golden Eagle soccer team has earned the right to play for the District 8-AAA championship once again. The Eagles (8-8) slipped past host Columbia Central 1-0 Wednesday night to advance to the title game...

The Wartrace Relay for Life Team will host its annual "Picnic on the Square" Saturday downtown at the Wellhouse. Festivities will be held from 4-9 p.m. Double Take and other local musicians will provide live music. Activities include a kid's zone, egg tosses, balloon tosses, cakewalks, hula-hoop contests and dunking booth. Wartrace fire and police departments and Town Hall personnel will be dunked for the cause...

A new company that recently relocated to Shelbyville announced Wednesday that they will be building a new type of aircraft at their facility. Jabiru USA Sport Aircraft, LLC, an international company specializing in the manufacture, sale and distribution of aircraft and kits, relocated its operations from Wisconsin to Shelbyville late last year...

Trailing 1-0 to Forrest in the District 11-A Tournament final, Cascade got their offense clicking in the top of the fourth inning. Junior shortstop Heather Lemmon led off the frame with a double for the Lady Champions. Sophomore catcher Ann Mullen followed with a single. One out later, junior right fielder Kate Prince doubled to score Lemmon and knot the game at 1-all. Freshman designated hitter Kelly Wilson grounded to shortstop to score Mullen at give Cascade a 2-1 lead...

Two Marshall County residents have been charged with TennCare fraud after officials say they used a TennCare card to get forged prescriptions filled at a Lewisburg pharmacy. The suspects are Amanda Marie Harris, 29, and Timothy Craig Spain, 34, both of Lewisburg, according to the TennCare Inspector General's office, which announced the arrests Wednesday...

Several thousand dollars' worth of silver coins from 1932-64 and collector's 1990s-era Barbie dolls belonging to Jay Butts and his wife were stolen from their Crest Drive home over the weekend, Shelbyville police were told Monday. The items were gone when the couple returned from a weekend trip, police said...

The man charged with robbing four stores here and one each in Tullahoma and Chapel Hill will probably send his four local robbery cases to the grand jury, his lawyer said Wednesday. Meanwhile, an examination of warrants sworn out by Shelbyville Police detectives against Timothy Casteel, 20, formerly of Carney Street, but now a county jail inmate, shows he took $3,350 from the stores here...

A measure that called for a referendum on the annexation of 210 acres of property outside of Bell Buckle was officially rescinded Tuesday night and other matters were discussed over the controversial issue of growth. Alderman Dennis Webb told the Bell Buckle board he spoke to Don Darden of the Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS) who said it would be proper to rescind the motion on the referendum "to show that we are compliant with the Coordinator of Elections office."...

Funeral services for Estelle Mozelle McGowan Smith, 86, of Shelbyville, who died Monday at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, were held Wednesday at Hillcrest Funeral Home. The Rev. Jim Beatty officiated and burial followed in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.

Marion Louise "Lou" Holton, 64, of Shelbyville, who died Wednesday at Bedford County Medical Center, will be 10 a.m. Friday at Hillcrest Funeral Home. The Rev. Ron DeWitt will officiate and burial will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.

Here's another in my continuing series of 'what would you do?' columns, many taken from Shelbyville Police Department reports: An allegedly-abused woman needs help -- on a weekend. But the state agency which can help isn't available until Monday....