Stories from Tuesday, November 14, 2006

MURFREESBORO - The Sun Belt Conference announced its players of the week today and Middle Tennessee brought home two of the three awards. Junior Bradley Robinson was voted the Defensive Player of the Week and senior Colby Smith was honored with the Special Teams award. It marks the third straight week the Blue Raiders have won the defensive and special team's award...

Funeral services for Michael Kilby Tart, 54, of Shelbyville, who died Sunday at Alvin York V.A. Medical Center in Murfreesboro, will be 7 p.m. Wednesday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Shelton Barley, Carol Williams and Tim Lokey officiating. Burial, with full military honors, will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Middle Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery in Nashville.

Nancy Elizabeth Conder Delffs, 82, of Shelbyville died Monday at Glen Oaks Convalescent Center. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Friday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Marvin Whitworth officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 3-8 p.m. Thursday...

The Liberty Patriots rode a combined 32-point effort from Seth Jarrell and Rhett Perryman to defeat visiting Cornersville Middle 46-28 on Monday night. The duo teamed to score the first 12 Patriot points. Their squad led 16-4 after one period and 29-16 at halftime...

Four years of hard work and patience paid off as Webb Middle's Lady Feet made it back into the win column, ending a 38-game losing streak, after a 29-12 victory over Boyd Christian Middle in Bell Buckle on Monday night. "We're just excited," first-year Webb coach Rick Dycus said. "We still have a ways to go...

A stabbing victim told police he was attacked outside Quik Mart, Lane Parkway, early Saturday morning. Clifton Marcelle Perry of Fayetteville said three men started cursing him after pulling their white Jeep next to his truck about 5 a.m. One of the men hit Nix in the mouth and, moments after Perry got out of his truck and grabbed a stick from its bed, stabbed him in the chest with a knife...

LEWISBURG -- A jury has been selected and opening arguments were heard Monday morning in the trial of a Marshall County man who's charged with sexual exploitation of a minor. Wade McKinley Staggs Sr., 51, of Underpass Road in Lewisburg has been held in the Marshall County Jail in lieu of $30,000 bond since his arrest by sheriff's officers on Jan. 25, according to public records...

CHAPEL HILL -- The town's Board of Mayor and Aldermen has granted a Murfreesboro developer's request that's to lead to an office park, thereby increasing the town's commercial area from 71 acres to 131 acres. Developer Howard Wall also plans to develop homes in his Horton Station project which will border the office park just southeast of Chapel Hill Elementary School, according to recent discussions at town board meetings...

Wartrace will apply for a Community Development Block Grant [CDBG] to make further improvements to their water system. Mayor Don Gallagher said that the grant request would be for an additional pump at the spring which feeds the system and to purchase a generator in case of a power failure...

Bedford County Utility District commissioners have decided to suspend decisions on how to release some of their water service area until after a new commissioner is elected. The consensus was reached last week as BCUD General Manager Marty Davis reported results of his discussions with David Crowell, general manager of Shelbyville Power, Water and Wastewater Service...

Funeral services for Robert V. Mitchell, 79, of Unionville, who died Monday, will be 11 a.m. Friday at Humphreys County Funeral Home in Waverly. Rick Rolin will officiate and burial will follow in Ebenezer Cemetery in New Johnsonville. Visitation with the family will be 5-8 p.m. Thursday and Friday morning until service time...

Harris Middle let a number of scoring opportunities slip away early in a 33-23 season-opening loss to visiting Franklin County North in a South Central Middle School Conference matchup. It was the first home loss by the Eaglettes since the opening of the new school last year...