Stories from Saturday, March 18, 2006

MURFREESBORO -- A history making event! For the time ever, Shelbyville Central's Golden Eagles will play in the Class AAA TSSAA state championship game. It's been said that the road to the boys state championship must go through West Tennessee. Boys basketball is widely considered to be played at its highest level near the state's western borders...

Four bags of marijuana were found on a man stopped for allegedly speeding through a school zone Thursday afternoon, Shelbyville police said. Joe R. Brown, 18, Keenan Lane, was followed from South Side Primary School to a parking lot over a mile away off Holland Street before stopping, according to Officer Fred Harvey...

In a budget study session last week, Bedford County Board of Education directed the school system's finance and accounting manager, Robert Daniel, to adjust the first draft of a proposed school system budget for fiscal 2006-2007. Details of the study session were provided to the Times-Gazette on Friday...

The magazine Shopping Centers Today, published by the International Council of Shopping Centers, has recognized Shelbyville as one of the top 20 U.S. "micromarkets" for shopping center growth. The chart, compiled with information from Claritas, CoStar Group/National Research Bureau, lists Shelbyville as having 3.44 square feet of gross leasable area (GLA) per capita in 2005, with projected annual income growth of 4.62 percent between 2005 and 2010. ...

A third man has pleaded guilty to lesser charges in Bedford County's quadruple murder case and he will serve no more time behind bars than what he received in a federal drug case that ensnared all four. "He was not the killer," District Attorney Mike McCown said Friday after Jesse James Syler, 35, pleaded guilty of being in possession of less than half a gram of cocaine. ...

Elliott Jones' come-from-behind win over Middle Tennessee Christian's Dillon Wade led Webb School's Feet to a 7-0 tennis win Friday in Bell Buckle. The Lady Feet weren't so fortunate, falling 4-3. "I am very proud of my boys today," Webb coach Joe Bennett said. ...