Stories from Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Community's Viqueens visited Tullahoma on Monday for a volleyball tri-match and came away with two losses despite playing very well against both opponents. Warren County got up early and held on to win by scores of 25-18 and 26-24 in a game that exchanged leads on numerous occasions...

A thief took a purse belonging to Mindee Howard from her car at her Riverbend Country Club Road home early Sunday, then drove away in her golf cart, investigators said. The golf cart was found by the street in front of a nearby home with the purse missing, Deputy L.J. Puckett's report said...

Four boys testified in Bedford County Sessions Court on Monday about being raped and seeing their friends raped by a disgraced paramedic. The case was sent to the grand jury. Edward Raven Odom, 29, appeared in an orange county jail uniform before Judge Charles Rich who dismissed 44 of the 199 charges partly because there was no proof about when the alleged crimes happened before 2004...

KEUMBU, Kenya -- Take a small amount of sodium hydroxide, also called lye in the U.S. or caustic soda in the U.K., and dissolve it in water. Be careful; it's highly corrosive. Melt some basic, inexpensive fat -- let's say, beef tallow or lard -- and then take it off the heat. Carefully stir the lye solution into the melted fat...

U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. of Memphis, the Democratic nominee for a U.S. Senate seat, attended the Celebration Tuesday, where he was introduced by announcer Chip Walters as "one of the reasons we're having a horse show tonight." Ford had originally been scheduled to present a class award on Friday night, and was on his way to the Celebration grounds just as a dispute between trainers and the U.S. Department of Agriculture shut down Friday night's show...

Owner-amateur classes dominated the action at Tuesday night's session of the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration. Paid attendance was 22,728, with actual attendance at 10,674, which announcer Chip Walters called the second-largest Tuesday night crowd in Celebration history. Special guests included U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (see related story) and Middle Tennessee State University president Dr. Sidney McPhee...

Albert Hershel Cook, 66, of Shelbyville died Tuesday at his home. Graveside services will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Willow Mount Cemetery with Tommy Dye and Jim Tedder officiating.

Frank LeRoy Taylor of Lascassas, father of Mrs. Noah (Stephaniei) Senn of Shelbyville, died Monday at his home. Services will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Woodfin Memorial Chapel with Dorris Jacobs officiating. Burial will be at Roselawn Memorial Gardens.

Funeral services for Thomas Franklin Young IV, 14-month-old son of Thomas Young III and Kimberly Barlow of Murfreesboro, who died Monday at Middle Tennessee Medical Center, will be 11 a.m. Friday at Brandon Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Fosterville. Burial will follow in Johnson Road Cemetery in Murfreesboro...

Webb opened up their golf season by scoring a 184 to place second in a tri-match on Monday afternoon at McMinnville Country Club. Cannon County placed first after carding a 179. Boyd Christian was third with a 222. Sean Kim tied for the lowest score after shooting a 42 for the Feet. Teammate Bastien Peters finished with a 43. Sutton Jones' 49 and J.H. Chun's 50 rounded out their scoring...

Coffee County Middle totally manhandled Harris Middle 44-0 in a Central Middle School Conference matchup Tuesday night at Eagle Stadium. The Eagle defense didn't have an answer to the Coffee County offense while the Harris offense struggled, to say the least...