Stories from Monday, September 12, 2005

CHATTANOOGA -- Shelbyville Central completed their final weekend soccer tournament Friday and Saturday, playing three games in less than 24 hours. The Golden Eaglettes won a pair of games before losing 4-1 to host Chattanooga Christian in the finals on Saturday afternoon...

MURFREESBORO -- Take away five turnovers, including a 99-yard pass interception, and a pair of missed field goals and it was a pretty good day for Middle Tennessee's Blue Raiders. But the Blue Raiders were on the short end of a 14-7 score in a Sun Belt Conference matchup with North Texas Saturday night at Floyd Stadium...

Bedford County Utility District has agreed to allow water service to a church from Shelbyville instead of from BCUD pipes even though the planned building is not in the city's service area. The future location of Calvary Baptist Church, now on Lane Parkway, is of interest to more people than those deciding on water service since it's to be near where Shelbyville's new bypass could be built, the congregation's music minister said last week...

Officials from the U.S. Departments of State and Commerce are working together to promote tourism in Bedford and its neighboring counties by Europeans, according to a Commerce Department official in Shelbyville on Saturday. "I'm mainly working with my colleagues in London," said Ericka Stevens, an international trade specialist who attended Tennessee's Backroads Heritage Barbecue Dinner Saturday at the Blue Ribbon Circle on the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration Grounds...

The attack on America on Sept. 11, 2001, was the beginning of a struggle that will not end until we have won, State Sen. Jim Tracy said at a patriotic rally Sunday at H.V. Griffin Park, hosted by the Republican Executive Committee of Bedford County...