Stories from Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Liberty Middle's Lady Patriots played host to Community Junior High and dampened their pre-holiday spirits a bit by coming from seven points down with 1:30 left to nail down a 32-30 win. "This was a hard-fought game by both teams," Liberty coach Chad Spencer said. "Both teams played with a lot of intensity. There were no easy baskets out there tonight."...

NASHVILLE -- Dane Bradshaw had more superlatives than key statistics following Tennessee's game with Oklahoma State on Monday night. The one stat Bradshaw had that mattered most, however, was the two points he scored with 1.9 seconds left to give the Volunteers a 79-77 triumph over the 15th-ranked Cowboys before 8,118 partisan fans at the Gaylord Entertainment Center...

Charles E. Lovvorn of Unionville-Deason Road died Sunday at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro. Services will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at Woodfin Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Dewey Smith officiating. Burial will be in Roselawn Memorial Gardens...

One of two fires in Bell Buckle since Friday has been seen as suspicious and while there had been no determination by noon Monday that it's arson, two state arson investigators were on the scene. "It's suspicious and we're looking into it," said Mead McWhorter, a special agent with the Bomb and Arson Section of the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance. "We'll see what we can find out" about a fire that burned two barns on Cumberland Street...

It may be the most wonderful time of the year for the rest of us, but the holiday season is the busiest time of the year for the U.S. Postal Service. "Wednesday will be the busiest delivery day of the year" said Larry Ellis, the officer in charge at the Shelbyville Post Office, who's normally the postmaster in Lewisburg...

An armed robber demanded cash and lottery tickets at gunpoint late Saturday night as Union Street BP was closing, police said. The clerk told police she'd locked the doors when the man approached and pointed a silver handgun, Officer Jerry Lawrence said...

Funeral services for Shannon Marie Gray, 35, who died Sunday, will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Coffee County Funeral Chapel with Dr. Kerry Walker officiating. Entombment will follow in the Rose Hill Memorial Gardens Mausoleum.