Stories from Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Juanita Halliburton, 79, of Shelbyville died Wednesday at Northside Healthcare Center in Murfreesboro. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Murfreesboro Funeral Home with Dean Gipson officiating. Burial will follow at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Murfreesboro. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Thursday.

The Tennessee Titans Mr. Football Awards will be presented to the top 10 backs and linemen in five classifications of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association on Nov. 29 at the Embassy Suites Hotel & Conference Center in Murfreesboro. For the ninth consecutive year, the top kicker in the state will be recognized with a Mr. Football Award. There are three finalists in this category, regardless of their school's classification...

David Niles was sentenced to life in prison after a jury found him guilty of first degree murder for the shooting death of Laura Parker, the mother of his son. Jurors took around 30 minutes to return the verdict after a day of testimony that included a jailhouse confession Niles made...

Taylor Vanderbilt's 20 points propelled Thurman Francis Middle to a 36-18 win over host Webb Middle on Tuesday night. Vanderbilt wasn't alone in the gaudy end of the scoring department as Richard Mulligan pitched in 10. "They had two really good players that we didn't have an answer for," Webb coach James Garcia said. "We had a lot of turnovers, and I felt we played slower than usual. Hopefully we learn from the mistakes we made and continue to grow as a basketball team."...

The identity of the victim of a fiery car crash on Knob Creek Road late Tuesday afternoon is still undetermined, investigators say. "The body has been taken to the state medical examiner's office in Nashville," State Trooper Jackie Smith said. "They will try to identify him through dental records. We couldn't get anything off anything to identify him."...

Bedford County Board of Commissioners, meeting Tuesday night, voted to rename the Medical Arts Building on Dover Street the Bedford County Office Complex. Commissioners also approved an adjustment to estimated property tax revenue which will bring the county in line with the state's maintenance-of-effort rule for school funding. ...

For Professor Bob Ferrell, finding out the truth about William Oscar Jenkins was a personal matter. "If it hadn't been of him, I might have never met my wife," he said. Ferrell, a history professor at the University of South Carolina at Sumter, was at The Fly Cultural Arts Center Thursday night to speak about his research into the life of Shelbyville native William O. ...

I mentioned this in my blog on the T-G web site, but I felt like it needed more expansion. There is a little church in between Tullahoma and Shelbyville on the old road, and it always has great sayings on its message board. One of the few bright spots about Monday is finding out what new words of wisdom will get me through the week...

The little-known magazine Cooks Source became an Internet pariah last week when it plagiarized a blogger. The plagiarism was bad enough, but then the magazine's editor defended herself with the claim that anything on the Internet is public domain and can be freely copied. The editor even had the gall to tell the writer she should be grateful for the improvements the magazine had made to her article!...