Stories from Wednesday, December 6, 2006

Funeral services for Lula Deloris Young Hix, 72, of Shelbyville, who died Sunday at her home after an extended illness, will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Bright Temple Church of God in Christ. The Rev. Fred Beasley will officiate and burial will follow in Stokes Cemetery...

Maggie Lorene Mooneyhan, 94, of Shelbyville died Tuesday at Bedford County Medical Center. Visitation with the family will be 4-9 p.m. today at Gowen-Smith Chapel. Funeral services will be held at a later time in West Helena, Ark.

Funeral services for Paul McClain, 82, of Shelbyville, who died Tuesday at Bedford County Medical Center, will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with Anthony Booker officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation with the family will begin 1 p.m. Saturday...

Angela S. Martinez, 30, of Shelbyville died Tuesday. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Hillcrest Funeral Home.

Van Kirtley Breast, 68, of Nashville died Monday. A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Friday at First Presbyterian Church of Nashville followed by a family graveside service at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation with the family will begin at noon at Cheek House...

Kathie Beard, 59, of Belfast died Tuesday at Maury Regional Hospital in Columbia. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at London Funeral Home in Lewisburg with burial following in Round Hill Cemetery. Visitation with the family will begin 4 p.m. today and continue Thursday until the funeral...

The issue of pit bulls and vicious dogs will be one for study as the Shelbyville City Council heard from dog owners who said that the owners, not the breed, need to be the target of any new city laws. The council will not take any action in the regular meeting for December, scheduled for next Thursday...

About 10 men who served in the Tennessee Army National Guard unit that recently returned from Iraq to Shelbyville may soon be wearing a Bronze Star medal on their uniforms, according to their commander. The fire fight that prompted Capt. Ted Webb to recommend two of the soldiers was described by the commander during comments on Saturday at Henry Horton State Park where veterans groups welcomed him to dinner...

CHAPEL HILL -- Similarities and differences between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor were a few of the dinner discussion topics Saturday among veterans who've been gathering for an annual meal in Bedford or Marshall counties for nearly a decade. And when war stories faded, the old soldier who's leading the AmVets Post, Howard Pinkston of Halls Mill, turned to Capt. Ted Webb of Belfast, commander of the National Guardsmen who just returned from Iraq, and they just talked about motorcycles and old cars...

Shelbyville Central jumped out to an early lead, saw it evaporate but rallied late to secure a 42-41 victory over visiting Lincoln County in a District 8-AAA matchup Tuesday night. The Falcons scored the opening basket, then the Eagles closed out the first quarter on a 14-0 run...

Curtis Dean Stacy Jr. told investigators a burglary was apparently in progress as he arrived at his Mankin Road home late Sunday afternoon. A man working on an SUV near the home quickly left before Stacy entered and discovered $250 in change, a new fence charger and two spools of fence wire were missing and his DVD player had been disconnected...

Shelbyville Central's Golden Eaglettes started this season's District 8-AAA campaign just like they ended last year -- with a win. The defending district champions (7-0, 1-0 8-AAA) slipped past visiting Lincoln County (4-4, 1-1) 54-53 in dramatic fashion Tuesday night...

Community defeated visiting District 9-A foe Boyd Christian 90-55 to move their record to within one game of matching last year's win total after just the ninth game of the season behind 33 points combined from Josh Hull and Dustin White. The Vikings (4-2, 1-1 9-A) got off to a slow start and found themselves in a 16-16 tie after one quarter before turning up the defensive pressure a bit to fuel a 28-point outburst and stake themselves to a 44-30 halftime lead that they never relinquished...

Coach Tony Garrette fired a shot over the bow of his young Community Viqueens when he challenged them to a gut check in the locker room after a dismal, 18-point loss in their District 9-A opener on Friday night at home. They rose to the occasion to even their district record Tuesday night with a resounding 71-44 victory over visiting Boyd Christian...

Can someone please call the janitor and have him take the cover off the rim? Forrest took advantage of a dismal night from the field for Cascade and routed the homestanding Champions 64-47 on Tuesday. Cascade looked sharp in the early going, scoring the first basket of the game in barely four seconds. The shooting problems came soon thereafter though as they went 9:24 before seeing their second score, a bucket by Jacob Carkuff at the 6:32 mark of the second quarter...

Cascade hung right with defending Class A state champion Forrest for a quarter before losing, falling off the horse on the offensive side of the ball in a 60-32 loss in Wartrace on Tuesday night. The Lady Champions were down 15-11 moving into the second stanza of their District 9-A opener. But, they combined to score just 10 points over the next 16 minutes and the Lady Rockets took advantage...