Stories from Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Community volleyball teams have been hard at work preparing for the upcoming season. Both the junior high and high school teams are facing great challenges as they work to replace last year's graduates. Returning for her ninth season as coach, Genny Ledbetter has already had to juggle the lineup due to a knee injury to junior Amanda Walls. As a result, a freshman will fill the important role of setter...

The Tennessee Fire Service and Codes Enforcement Academy will be installing a new sign to mark its entrance on Thursday. By action of the general assembly, the state academy will be named in honor of former state Rep. Clarence "Pete" Phillips, who was instrumental in the establishment of the state-of-the-art training facility. ...

Two burglars picked the wrong time to talk early Tuesday. LaShonda Moss, who slept through the sounds of her Davis Estates apartment's front door frame being shattered and a table being broken in half, told Shelbyville police she was awakened by the voices of two men in the living room shortly after midnight...

A cerebral hemorrhage has hospitalized this district's state prosecutor who was transferred to a rehabilitation center yesterday. One of his assistant district attorneys was appointed as the top prosecutor here. District Attorney Mike McCown was in St. Thomas Hospital since Aug. 4, but was released Tuesday and admitted to the Stallworth Neurological Rehabilitation Center, an arm of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, McCown's wife, Paulette, said Tuesday night...

Bedford County's school board has $209,000 in its budget for fuel, but has no choice on the price it's going to pay even though the one set of bids it received seems favorable. The price only looks good because the county doesn't pay taxes and so when School Superintendent Ed Gray saw a TV news report from Georgia where a school system uses chicken fat to make diesel fuel last longer, he thought about calling Tyson Foods...

With a standing room only crowd watching Tuesday night, the Shelbyville Planning Commission rescinded its approval of a final plat for a subdivision that brought protesting residents out in force two weeks ago. What has residents of Campbell Estates and nearby areas in an uproar is the proposed Stones Throw subdivision, which consists of 52.86 acres located off South Cannon Boulevard near Naron Road. The commission will look at the matter again at its next meeting, Thursday, Aug. 25...

Harris Middle and Cascade Middle didn't let a little precipitation get in the way of starting up their soccer seasons Tuesday afternoon in Wartrace. Shelby Lamb minded the nets for the Golden Eaglettes as they shut out the Lady Champions 4-0. "The defense played well. We just had a little more team speed than they did," Harris coach Frankie Swing said...

Harris Middle students successfully opened the school year in a new facility earlier this week, but the season and home opener for the Golden Eagle football team wasn't as pleasant in a 34-0 to Central Middle of Murfreesboro at Eagle Stadium Tuesday night...