Stories from Thursday, November 8, 2007

Superstition is winning out this year for the playoffs. Coaches at Cascade have decided not to paint the lines on the football field black against the now-dormant Bermuda grass. Nope, they're sticking with what's been working and that's the basic white...

Frankie Estelle Ashby, 95, of Shelbyville died Thursday at Glen Oaks Convalescent Center. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with Freland George officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 4-8 p.m. Saturday.

LEWISBURG -- With a co-conspirator who turned state's evidence on Monday, a Shelbyville car salesman's widow pleaded guilty on Wednesday, the day before jury selection for her trial was scheduled to begin at Bedford County Courthouse. Kimberly Ann Ross, 38, was sentenced to life in prison by Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler for her part in the Valentine's Day murder of her husband, Bill, who was shot three times while he slept in his bed at their Wartrace Pike home...

Matt Doak wears two different, but dangerous hats -- one as a Shelbyville Fire Department captain and the other as a U.S. Marine. Either time he puts on one of the two uniforms, there's a chance he won't be coming back -- whether he fights fires or the nation's enemies...

One of Bedford County's unique treasures, Tennessee Poet Laureate Margaret Britton "Maggi" Vaughn of Bell Buckle, will join luminaries including John Grisham, Shelby Foote and Eudora Welty when she is awarded with the Germantown Arts Alliance Medal for Literary Arts...

Three persons were arrested this week in connection with a burglary at a home in the Unionville area. Jamie Lee Flora, 30, Qualls Lane; Jamie Lenay Webb, 29, Cedar Circle; and Jonathan Michael Qualls, 24, Midland Road, each face charges of theft of property in a Oct. 19 burglary in which approximately $125,000 of items were taken...

Parade magazine's biennial "What America Eats" issue, which will be included in Sunday's Times-Gazette, reports that more men are picking up the slack in the grocery store and the kitchen than 20 yeas ago, when the magazine first conducted its survey...

The success of any productive offense starts with the snap of the football from the center to the quarterback. A bad exchange disrupts the entire play. It's imperative that the center and quarterback play and think as one. Shelbyville Central seniors Taylor Hicks and Julian Haile have been close friends since kindergarten and have played on the same football team for 10 years...

Graveside services for Alvin Caldwell, 62, of Chapel Hill, who died Wednesday at his home after an extended illness, will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Swanson Cemetery in Chapel Hill. Keith Warren will officiate. Visitation with the family will be 4-8 p.m. today at Lawrence Funeral Home in Chapel Hill, which is in charge of arrangements...