Stories from Tuesday, March 21, 2006

MURFREESBORO -- As an athletic, wiry young man walked down the ramp out of the Murphy Center's Monte Hale Arena, he humbly kept his head fixed to the ground with a medal around his neck and a huge chunk of hardware in his arms that read "Mr. Basketball" and told everyone he was one of the top three players in the state this season...

Funeral services for Fermin Estrada, 47, of Shelbyville, who died Saturday, will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Saint William Catholic Church. The Rev. Richard Driscoll will officiate and burial will follow in Willow Mount Cemetery. Hillcrest Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...

A Barksdale Lane man told police he was struck in the head early Friday by a man who ran out of his home with $230 and a carton of cigarettes. Jeremy R. Likens, 26, said he heard a noise and, upon entering his kitchen, was struck in the head by a man described as white, standing about 5-feet-4 and weighing 140 pounds, slim and wearing a brown/tan flannel jacket and blue jeans...

"OK, let's do that once more." As the band plays a steady rhythm, a classic car comes up behind singer/songwriter/guitar player Scott Hunt and he manages to step out of the way in time. But it wasn't the first time the scene had taken place Saturday: It was repeated several more cycles -- for the camera...

State Sen. Jim Tracy has introduced a bill in the state legislature that he says will protect consumers by promoting greater competition for cable television services -- but there are still issues to be worked out, and the bill may not get to a vote in the current legislative session...

Two sons and the daughter of a Shelbyville man shot dead by a policeman's bullet on Saturday remembered their father yesterday as a happy man who helped people. "He was a jolly, good old man," said William Estrada, 24, son of Fermin Estrada, 48, of Cedar River Road, whose casket and grave site were selected Monday afternoon by his sons and brother...

A 79-year-old Florida man was indicted by the Bedford County Grand Jury yesterday on a charge of sexual battery by an authority figure in a case with victims ages 9 and 15. However, Jimmy A. Hull of Port Ritchey, Fla., didn't appear in circuit court Monday afternoon for arraignment and as a result Judge Robert Crigler revoked Hull's bond, issued a bench warrant for his arrest and directed J&R Bonding Co. to find Hull...