Stories from Thursday, March 18, 2010

Community Middle's softball team struggled with Moore County Middle on Tuesday night. Carolyn Pena and Katie Warrick both smacked a pair of hits but it wasn't enough as the Viqueens fell 8-4 in the first game of a doubleheader. "The girls played very hard, but we still have a lot to learn about the game," Community coach Erin Haywood said. "They are improving every game, we just have to get our confidence levels up."...

Herbert Holton, 60, of Shelbyville died Thursday in Shelbyville. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Lawrence Funeral Home, Chapel Hill, with the Rev. David Wall and the Rev. Willis Pope officiating. Burial will follow at Simpson Cemetery in Rover. Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Friday.

Only a few classes into the 42nd annual Walking Horse Trainers' Association show, there were already several hundred spectators. "I'm very pleased with the turnout," said Dr. Doyle Meadows, CEO of the Celebration as well as the head of SHOW, the horse industry organization that sanctions the Trainers' Show...

Court dates for John Darron Thomas, accused of hundreds of counts of animal cruelty involving dead and starved cattle, has been reset for later next month due to his attendance at an alcohol and drug treatment center. Meanwhile, Thomas' elderly father did not show for his first court appearance on related charges, while the remaining cattle that are at the center of the cruelty case have been sold...

Country music pro Wyatt Easterling became aware of the Middle Tennessee Spay & Neuter Clinic after friend Nikki Mitchell of Waylon Jennings Music adopted one of the dogs, the victim of a recent cruelty case, from Bedford County Animal Control. Now named Abilene, the dog and Easterling are fast friends and Abby spends much of her time on Music Row with him...

Bedford County Board of Commissioners' rules and legislative committee recommended a resolution Tuesday night certifying that the county complies with Title VI civil rights regulations. The resolution will be voted on next month by the full commission...

Being beaten to parking places got to be just too much for a Shelbyville woman to take Monday, police said. The woman, who was not charged, admitted smearing lipstick on the window of a car at Kroger, North Main Street, during a "bad day," according to officer Justin Smith's report...