Stories from Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Every once in a while you just have to take a step back and take a deep breath. Visiting Christiana Middle erased a comfortable Liberty Middle lead and closed to within 26-24 after three quarters of play on Monday evening. "I sat them down at the beginning of the fourth quarter because I had a few that had lost their composure," Liberty coach Chad Spencer said. "We tried to get our heads back in the ballgame and they did."...

A thief was active at two homes on Coopertown Road near Rover last week. An estimated $125 worth of tools were taken from the garage at the Kenneth Trott residence between Monday and Friday nights of last week, a Bedford County Sheriff's Department report said,...

A Shelbyville man pleaded guilty of stealing and burning a car dealer's truck, but he waited until a jury was selected Monday when officials noted dozens of people were inconvenienced. "This is something he could have done weeks ago," Bedford County Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell said after accepting guilty pleas from Christopher Wayne Holden, 36, whose address has been listed as on Faye Creek Road and Industrial Boulevard...

Those wanting to get rid of those old tires without paying a recycling fee have until March to do so, according to the Bedford County Solid Waste Authority. According to figures released by Road Superintendent Stanley Smotherman, the total cost of disposing of the tires from July until November was $31,895.05 for 400.57 tons of tires. Members of the authority learned that it would probably cost extra for workers to go throughout the county to pick up tires left on the side of the road...

Twenty years with the Tennessee Department of Corrections was the sentence handed down Monday in Bedford County Circuit Court for a man who pleaded guilty in a home invasion. William Anthony Hayworth, 29, brandished a BB gun in the pre-dawn hours of March 24 at a Lipscomb Street home occupied by Hispanics, according to Assistant District Attorney Ann Filer's summary of what appeared to be the last in a short series of similar crimes in Shelbyville...

Third of a five part series of Jack Culpepper's memories of growing up in Phenix City, Ala., widely known for years as the most corrupt city in the nation until 1954. Culpepper, 83, now resides in Tullahoma. One large house of prostitution, located 10 miles south of Phenix City, was believed to have been tied to a nationwide white slavery racket, placed in an isolated area behind a poor black community, which made it difficult for young girls being broken into the immoral business to escape. ...