Stories from Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Frances Faulkner Beasley, 92, of Unionville died Tuesday in Shelbyville. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Lawrence Funeral Home in Chapel Hill with Don Summers and the Rev. Charles Melvin Collins officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Grove Cemetery near Unionville. Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. Thursday.

This was one of the oddest Thanksgivings I've ever had. To me, for all of my life, Thanksgiving has meant noise and boys. When I was young, it was a simple, at home affair, but with five kids (three boys, one girl and one tomboy) it was always loud and rambunctious...

Quickness, speed and size is always an advantage and Shelbyville Central excelled in each of those components in a 50-33 win over visiting Coffee County on Tuesday night. The Golden Eagle offense pounded the ball inside where they had a huge height advantage with seniors Seth Jarrell and Bobby Wilson while the defense used its quickness and speed to shut down the Raider offense, holding them to single digits in two of the four quarters...

For a young and inexperienced team, growing pains can be a good thing if lessons are learned. Only time will tell if Shelbyville Central's Golden Eaglettes can turn a 51-41 loss to visiting Coffee County on Tuesday night into a positive later in the season...

Yogi Berra, famous for his colorful but logically-tangled turns of phrase, once described a restaurant this way: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." Anyone starting a new social networking site has the opposite problem: it's not crowded enough...

A holiday break that left Cascade with nine days with no game had little to no effect on the Champions or their shooting touch as they rallied from behind to send Richland home with a 67-58 loss on Tuesday night. Five 3-pointers helped the Champions net 41 second-half points. It was a shooting performance that was of no surprise to coach Charlie Pope...

Bedford County wasn't under a flood warning or advisory at 9 a.m. Tuesday, but that didn't mean there wasn't flooding. The one-lane concrete bridge on Bugscuffle Road near Wartrace, almost always the first casualty to high water, was completely covered Tuesday morning, with a massive pile of driftwood creating a logjam on the upstream side...

The county's new crime suppression unit has been keeping busy this month, making several arrests including one where three pounds of marijuana was seized and another where children were brought to a drug deal. Detective Sgt. David Sakich and Detective Kevin Holton received information on Nov. ...

HAMPSHIRE -- The Community Viqueens' ship entered much smoother waters with a solid performance on both ends of the court in a 52-32 win over Hampshire in their second game in as many nights. The game was close in the first period, with Shelby Voss keeping the Lady Hawks within striking distance with nine points, but the Viqueens (2-4) came out on top 12-10 behind Hannah Busbee and Katie Leverette, who split eight points between them, and a basket by Kelli Donovan...

A Shelbyville man held two individuals at gunpoint after he allegedly caught the pair breaking into his Tullahoma business last Friday. Jim Edmond Guthrie of Highway 130 East told Tullahoma patrolman Christopher Coe that someone had entered his business, Guthrie's Machine Shop on Ledford Mill Road, over the previous week...

Detectives say they're unsure if foul play is involved in the disappearance of a Shelbyville man. Bobby Smelcer, 52, of East Lane Trailer Park, was last seen at his home at approximately 4:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 21, his sister, Karen Harris, said....

A utility trailer and 12 corral cattle panels were stolen from the grounds of Bedford County Agricultural Center, Midland Road, over the weekend, Shelbyville police said. A chain on a gate was cut to gain entry, an employee discovered Monday. n Electronics including a laptop computer, flat screen television, XBox 360 and three XBox games were stolen from a Locust Street apartment Tuesday afternoon or evening, police said...

HAMPSHIRE -- Two games on consecutive nights after a five-day layoff, turnovers, poor rebounding technique, way too many missed shots and seemingly tired legs plagued the Community Vikings on Tuesday night against Hampshire. But they still found a way to pull out a 59-56 victory and remain undefeated...

In-your-face defense and solid free-throw shooting helped Cascade break away from a tie ballgame after three quarters and defeat visiting Richland 48-41 on Tuesday night. In the fourth period, the Lady Champions (4-1) knocked down 8-of-12 foul shots and held the Lady Raiders to just two field goals en route to their fourth straight victory...