Stories from Saturday, September 23, 2006

Cascade defeated District 11-A/AA rival Huntland 4-2 in a critical road matchup on Thursday, keeping the Lady Champs in the running to finish in the top half of the district standings. The Lady Hornets struck first after a defensive miscommunication by Cascade (6-2-1, 3-2 11-A/AA)...

CLARKSVILLE -- Community High's Vikings are on a roller coaster ride this season worthy of the best Coney Island has to offer. The ride continued Friday evening on the perfectly manicured, state-of-the-art playing surface at Austin Peay State University as the Vikings lost 40-0 to Clarksville Academy, a team with which they should have been evenly matched...

Cascade took an assist from Mother Nature to celebrate homecoming the proper way with a 36-14 victory over visiting Taft Youth Center on Friday night. The eighth-ranked Champions continue to go where no other squad in school history has gone as they are now 5-0...

Shelbyville Central (0-5) jumped out to a 14-point lead in the first quarter, then fell victim to 36 unanswered points in a 36-20 loss to Class 5-A opponent Franklin County (2-3) Friday night at Eagle Stadium. Just as the game began, wind and rain started. Officials cleared the field with 8:15 left in the first half for approximately one hour...

Police said they were forced to subdue a man who allegedly swerved toward several vehicles and a pedestrian before aiming at a patrol unit Thursday night. Officer Cody King arrested Jason A. Parker, 27, of Shelbyville in a Madison Street parking lot...

Just one more comment on those wacky radical Muslims, and I may let it rest for a while. This writer's jaw hit the floor after reading a report from Indonesia that quoted alleged terror leader Abu Bakar Bashir. For those of you who may not know the name, he served 26 months for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people...

"Let's get something done." Those were the words of Shelbyville Mayor Geneva Smith as county and city leaders sat down for the third time Saturday to discuss conflicting tax issues between the two government bodies. While no decisions were made during the joint meeting, all of those that spoke were against the idea of a lawsuit being filed by the city against the county over taxation issues involving volunteer fire services...

County Mayor Eugene Ray will hold an informative study session for county officials Oct. 9 on the issue of setting up a county budget director and bringing the county under one or another of the state's financial management plans. That sounds simple enough, but the idea of centralized budgeting, payroll and purchasing can be a controversial on in the arena of county government, where some departments and courthouse offices are used to doing things their own way...

The Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders' and Exhibitors' Association (TWHBEA) announced Friday the name of its upcoming fall event to crown the 2006 World Grand Champion. The Tennessee Walking Horse Invitational will be held at the Tennessee Miller Coliseum in Murfreesboro on Nov. 24-25...

A Shelbyville man caught fishing without a license in Texas was extradited Friday to face charges in Bedford County Circuit Court next week. "I think he owes us about nine years," Sheriff Randall Boyce said of Kenneth Paul Vanderpool Jr., 42, who's been at-large instead of in prison for nearly three years...

LEWISBURG -- Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler on Wednesday handed down three 10-year sentences to a 23-year-old Lewisburg man as a result of drug convictions. The three terms imposed on Chaddrick Lyttle are to be served at the same time, although that's cold comfort since Lyttle is already serving a 12-year term from another conviction and faces trial in Shelbyville on still more charges...

Webb placed fourth with a score of 101 and Community fifth at 128 in the boys' varsity portion of the John Freeman Memorial Cross Country Meet in Bell Buckle on Thursday. Siegel won the competition with a score of 37. Oakland (52) and St. Andrew's-Sewanee (72) rounded out the top three...

Funeral services for Oscar Lee Hasty, 88, of Shelbyville, who died Friday at Carriage House, will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Gowen-Smith Chapel with Merle Mead, Jim Thompson and Ronald Martin officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will be 3-8 p.m. Saturday.