Stories from Friday, July 31, 2009

Bedford County Board of Education officials have set the date for two new school open houses in the days to come. A ribbon cutting for Community High School, 1140 Unionville-Deason Road, is scheduled for 2 p.m. Sunday in its theater. A parent/student orientation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday...

Little Shop of Horrors," the teen and youth production at the Fly Cultural Arts Center, opens tonight at 7. The show continues Saturday and Aug. 6 and 7 at 7 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. Janice Cole is the director with Colleen Embry as musical director...

The smell of marijuana at a sobriety checkpoint resulted in the seizure of nearly $9,000, drugs and two arrests earlier this week. Arrested were Carl Edward Chaney, 33, of Murfreesboro and Jessie Darnell Davidson, 30, of Tullahoma. Both have been charged with possession of schedule VI for resale and Chaney was also charged with introduction of contraband into a penal institution...

Emergency workers could only shake their heads in disbelief after the drivers of two large trucks walked away from a crash in Deason late Thursday morning. "It sounded like dynamite, a large explosion," George Hofstetter said after both trucks ended up in his front yard on the west side of U.S. 231 North just south of the Unionville-Deason Road intersection...

Several rounds of questioning led to a suspect admitting he assaulted a Wartrace man during a July 17 home invasion, authorities said. Matthew Murray, of High Street in Wartrace, was arrested Thursday and charged with aggravated assault and especially aggravated burglary, Detective Sgt. Scott Jones of the Bedford County Sheriff's Department said...

It's funny how things find a way of working themselves out sometimes. Cousins Corey and Kyle Mullins were major contributors to Cascade's rise to the top as one of the premier Class A baseball programs in Tennessee with a combined record of 94-19-1 the last three seasons...