Stories from Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Joe A. Campbell, 86, died Sunday in Nashville. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Lawson B. Howard as eulogist. Burial will follow at Mt. Ararat Cemetery....

Funeral services for Derrick Lavell Rankins, 33, of Shelbyville, will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel. The Rev. Robert McLean will be the eulogist and burial will follow in Erwin Stokes Cemetery....

"This truck is just overflowing with kindness." That's how Public Fire Education Officer/Inspector Brian Nicholson of the Shelbyville Fire Department described a Big G trailer full of goods parked next to the city's main station on Monday. The loaded tractor-trailer left this morning at 7 for tornado-stricken Macon County packed with needed supplies. A twister ripped a path through the rural county last week, killing 13 people and leaving many without a roof over their heads...

The cornerstone from the historic Turner College will be opened 1 p.m. Feb. 24 at the Woodfork Chapel AME Church. The event, being held in honor of Black History Month, is open to the public. "We have no idea what's inside," said Lynn Hulan of Musgrave Pencil Company, which owns the site...

Helen Garner, James Elkins, Johnny Reed and Dawn Holley were honored by Shelbyville & Bedford County Chamber of Commerce during the chamber's annual membership meeting and awards banquet Monday night at the Blue Ribbon Circle. Commissioner James Neeley of Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the scheduled keynote speaker, was unable to attend due to pneumonia; instead, Joe B. Brandon of the department spoke...

MURFREESBORO -- It's not how you start, but how you finish that counts. Trailing 17-6 at the end of the first quarter, Shelbyville Central outscored Riverdale 69-20 over the final three periods to claim a 75-54 win in their regular season finale. The Eagles now focus on the postseason and take the momentum of winning 14 of their last 15 games into tournament play. ...

Funeral services for Gurney E. Tucker, 77, of Shelbyville, who died Tuesday at Bedford County Nursing Home, will be 10 a.m. Thursday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel. Hugh Price, Jr., Geoff Giesemann, and Russ Countess will officiate. Burial, with full military honors, will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens....

Susan Crommett, 47, of Shelbyville died Sunday at Harton Regional Medical Center in Tullahoma. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Jennings-Moore-Cortner Funeral Home in Winchester with Mark Allmond officiating.

The Times-Gazette will introduce a new advertising feature, "Quiz An Expert," on March 3, giving readers a chance to ask questions of local professionals about their fields of expertise. The full-color weekly feature will have a question-and-answer format, with one question answered each week by the professional. Readers will send their questions directly to the expert, who will decide which questions to answer...

MURFREESBORO -- Now the fun really begins. Shelbyville Central rolled past defending Class AAA state champion Riverdale 64-35 to close out the regular season Monday night. Their attention now turns to the postseason and a run for their 13th state title...

If you held off on attending the District 9-A tournament opener in Unionville on Monday night, you missed out. Fourth-seeded Community rallied back from a 16-point deficit and held on late against fifth-seeded Cascade for a stunning 47-46 victory to extend their season at least three more games...