Stories from Saturday, December 15, 2007

A woman at a popular retail store checkout counter tried a cigarette lighter that plays music and, while holding the device near her ear to hear electronic music, she pushed a lever and ignited a flame, thereby setting her hair on fire. Three employees of the chain store where this reportedly happened made statements substantiating the information, but did not identify the woman. ...

Shelbyville officers stayed busy Thursday night finding drugs during vehicle searches following traffic stops. Three persons were arrested, two on drug-related charges. Brown's car was searched after a check showed he was driving without a license. An estimated 3.13 grams of marijuana were found between the car's driver's seat and center console, police said...

The final environmental impact statement (EIS) for the U.S. Air Force's Common Battlefield Airman Training (CBAT) project, which was scheduled to be released on Saturday, has not been, according to a spokesman for Arnold Air Force Base, one of the sites under consideration for the project...

Since birth, Chloe Taylor has fought her way through 27 bouts of pneumonia, three open heart surgeries, 15 catheterizations and 15 artery dilations. She's only three. "We're still looking at several more surgeries," said Sandra Taylor, Chloe's mother, who hopes doctors will someday be able to correct her daughter's serious heart defects...

The Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration has formed a search committee to find a new chief executive officer and show manager. Director Pat Marsh, who will serve as the committee's chairman, selected the seven-member committee. The members of the committee are all members of the TWHNC Association. In addition to Marsh, they include Tommy Anderton, David Crowell, Edward C. Huffman, Jr., Scott McDonald, D.B. Nelson, Jr., and Donna Stone...

CHAPEL HILL -- Forrest Schools' classes were suspended Friday and two home basketball games with Community High School are postponed until next year because of a threatening note, Marshall County schools' officials said. "There was a bomb threat in the note," said Nancy Aldridge, interim director of schools. The note -- presumably written by a boy, although Aldridge wasn't specific -- was found in a bathroom at Forrest High and taken to the school office...

Shelbyville's post office is taking precautions to make sure the potentially deadly MRSA or "staph" infection isn't spread through the mail after two employees became infected with the bacteria. The T-G received a call Thursday from a concerned citizen who claimed that Shelbyville's postmaster Larry Ellis was allowing a postal employee with a staph infection to continue to work, possibly exposing the public to the bug...

Tracey Donnette Hargrove Caldwell of Shelbyville, a 1988 graduate of Central High School, was a member of the MTSU chapter of Tau Sigma, the honor society for transfer students, as well as a member of Sigma Theta Tau Nursing National Honor Society, the MTSU Student Nurses' Association and Tennessee Association of Student Nurses. ...