Stories from Tuesday, August 10, 2010

State Sen. Jim Tracy issued a concession statement this afternoon in the tight three-way Republican primary battle for the 6th District U.S. House race, although he left open the possibility that he would "reassess the situation" if irregularities came to light. "We've had a tough primary battle," stated Tracy in a news release, "but it is now time to look ahead to November and I encourage all the candidates to get behind our Republican nominee for Congress in the 6th District, Senator Diane Black." ...

Rescuers breathed sighs of relief Monday after learning a Bedford County teacher critically injured in a two-car crash had regained consciousness. Taylor Lee Ann Grissom, 24, of Longview Road, a seventh grade reading instructor at Community Middle School, was knocked unconscious in a collision at Brown Lane and Lorien Circle in northern Shelbyville about 11 a.m. Monday, police said...

More than a thousand people turned up for the 105th annual Wartrace Horse Show Saturday night -- and they didn't have to slog through mud to get there. "The weather was great," said the show's chairman, Roy Ferguson. "It cooled down after dark and it was real comfortable."...

Regional utility managers and others will gather for a final workshop on Wednesday at Henry Horton State Park to plan for the area's future water supply needs. Since June 2009, the Duck River Agency, along with area utilities and environmental groups, has been holding workshops to work out alternatives to a Comprehensive Regional Water Supply Plan for Bedford, Coffee, Marshall, Maury, and southern Williamson counties...

A Moore County man was arrested in Tullahoma Friday and charged with methamphetamine production. Heath Alan Womble, 28, of Riddle Road, just over the line from Bedford County, was charged with initiation of a process resulting in the production of methamphetamine...

Bedford and Moore county school systems will partner with Middle Tennessee State University on a history education project to be funded by a three-year, $999,981 grant announced Friday by U.S. Department of Education. MTSU history professors will help guide Bedford and Moore county teachers in preparing standards-based lesson plans and using innovative teaching strategies, according to Betsy Norris, a grant coordinator with the Bedford County school system...

Second-year coach Monica Lewis nods her head with encouragement and excitement watching her Cascade Lady Champions practice in preparation for the 2010 season. The Lady Champion roster is loaded with soccer players who were afforded the opportunity of learning the sport at an early age in the Bedford County Soccer Association and earned experience in 2009 from the deepest postseason run in school history...

A customer at Pop A Top Again, Madison Street, was arrested Saturday night after attempting to give a Xanax pill to a waitperson, Shelbyville police said. Adam Wesley Barrett, 30, Temple Ford Lane, admitted the action and handed over a bottle containing three Xanax, Shelbyville officer Jerry Lawrence said...