Stories from Saturday, April 14, 2007

Mary Carrick Jones, 84, of Shelbyville died Friday at Middle Tennesse Medical Center in Murfreesboro. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Jimmy Gray and the Rev. Arnold King officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens...

CHAPEL HILL -- A Marshall County mother made the hardest decision of her life last week -- removing life support from one of her twin boys. Yet Miranda Lamoreaux summoned inner strength to talk publicly one day after the death of her son, Lavone, twin 3-year-old brother of Javone...

It hadn't even been a year since the industry closed but the impact was felt all across the area. Residents had been warned of the economic domino effect it would have but no one listened because no one actually believe there could possibly come a day when the gates to The Celebration didn't swing open to welcome contenders and visitors alike onto the historic show grounds....

A convenience store clerk took matters into his own hands early Saturday as two teenage boys allegedly attempted an armed robbery. The boys, one masked and appearing to be armed, entered the Kangaroo store at the Madison Street-South Hillcrest Drive intersection about 12:47 a.m., the time at which police said a holdup alarm sounded...

A wallet accidentally left in a shopping cart at Food Lion, Colloredo Boulevard, was gone when its owner returned to claom it Thursday night, Shelbyville police said. The purse belonging to Denise A. Redd, U.S. 231 North, was later taken to Saddlegait Market, South Cannon Boulevard, by a man who said he found it on the nearby Duck River bridge...

Editor's note: First in a series of stories studying the walking horse industry and its significance to this community. This series will review the industry's impact in Bedford County and all of Middle Tennessee and the steps leaders are taking in seeking solutions to problems within the industry....

First, the initial out in both the bottom and top of the first inning must be recorded with each team's dirtiest ball in the bucket. Secondly, neither team can throw their No. 1 or 2 pitcher longer than one inning. Those are the only rules thus far but coaches are sure to come up with more as they go for the annual Dirty Ball Classic between Cascade and Cornersville...

Shelbyville Central played a pair of Border Battle games in Fayetteville on Friday and the results weren't what they had hoped. The Eaglettes lost both while not scoring a run and collecting only one hit...

Webb definitely won the arms race as they concluded their three-game set against Middle Region foe St. Andrew's-Sewanee with a doubleheader sweep in Bell Buckle on Friday. Hunter Foutch went four innings and Matt Pierce hurled the final frame to combine for a no-hitter in the Feet's 6-1 win over the Mountain Lions in the first game of the cool, damp afternoon...

Cascade bused back over to Fayetteville for their second day's worth of games in the Border Battle but left their bats and gloves at home. The Lady Champions totaled as many errors as hits in their two contests and came back to Wartrace with two losses...

Webb took control early and held on late to an 11-5 win over Centennial on a rainy Friday afternoon in Bell Buckle. The Feet (4-3) went up 6-1 in the first quarter and expanded their lead to 8-1 at the midway point. The advantage swelled to 11-1 going into the final stanza where the visitors rallied for four late goals...

Ignore global warming at your own risk. And keep in mind that some in Washington and elsewhere could care less about the risk. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change paints a dire picture of our future if something isn't done. More severe weather ranging from hurricanes to heat waves in the United States. Water shortages in Africa. Disappearing glaciers worldwide. Shrinking ice sheets...