Stories from Friday, November 9, 2007

Hearings got underway in federal court in Chattanooga this week in a civil suit largely based on charges made against Tyson Foods executives and managers in 2001. On Wednesday, defense attorneys for Tyson asked Chief U.S. District Judge Curtis Collier to rule a report and testimony from an economist inadmissible which claimed that the food giant depressed wages by hiring illegal immigrants at eight plants, including one in Shelbyville...

A state-of-the-art behavioral health care facility serving Bedford County was formally introduced to the community Thursday morning. Centerstone's offices on South Wall Street off Madison Street in Shelbyville serve as a prototype for future facilities, officials emphasized...

Citing the inability of the G.I. Bill to meet the rising costs of a college education, the Tennessee House and Senate Democratic Caucus on Monday introduced the "Helping Heroes Act of 2008," a scholarship funded by lottery proceeds that will provide a maximum of $8,000 in higher education assistance to Tennessee veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan...

Bedford County Solid Waste Authority continues to request information on the types of waste that are brought into the county. Last month, the authority heard from Wayne Simons of Simons Farms about material he is injecting into fields in various parts of the county. Concerns had been brought to SWA's attention by citizens about sludge dumping in various parts of the county...

Shelbyville's city council only had a few items to address Thursday evening, one of them involving trees on the public square. The council passed a motion to hire Jim Douglas with Hodgson Planning and Design Services for streetscape planning for Shelbyville's Public Square, but Councilman Lee Roy Cunningham had questions about the move...

Two Nashville men attempted to leave Wal-Mart without paying for nearly $500 in merchandise Wednesday, Shelbyville police said. Larry Eugene Scales, 53, and Billie Noble Forrest, 68, are accused of carrying a tote bag containing blue jeans, work shirts and other assorted merchandise...

A Marshall County man died Tuesday night after being struck by a pickup truck driven by a Unionville man near Farmington, according to the Tennessee Highway Patrol. Kyle Patrick Starr, 20, was walking in the roadway of U.S. 31-A near Wade Brown Road when hit by a southbound 1993 Ford operated by Leonard Burgett, 34, said State Trooper Jack Sutphen's preliminary report. The location is just north of the intersection of 31-A and State Highway 64...

Shelbyville Central could take a huge step in the right direction with an upset win at sixth-ranked Clarksville in the opening round of the state playoffs tonight at 7. It's the first playoff appearance for the Golden Eagles in four years, when they claimed a huge upset victory over top seed Pearl Cohn in Nashville...

Community Junior High got balanced scoring and outstanding defense to hand Bedford County neighbor Cascade Middle their first defeat of the young season in Unionville last night by a score of 40-28. The two teams played to a 6-all draw after one period and it looked like it would end up tied again at the break until a steal and a layup by Kelsie Smith gave the Viqueens (3-2) a slim 14-12 advantage as time expired...

At first it appeared as though playing their sixth game in eight days would get the better of the Webb Middle boys, making but one field goal in the opening quarter against Huntland Middle at the Barton Athletic Center on Thursday night. Eighth grader Cham Cham Quao put his team on his back in the second frame, scoring 10 of his game-high 28 points to alter a 10-5 first-quarter deficit to 18-17 at the half...