Stories from Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Auditions for singing the national anthem before Tennessee's home opener in 242 days won't be necessary. Bob Seger's talents should do the trick. Seger, the man who brought music lovers the 1973 hit song "Turn the Page," should put the Volunteers in the perfect mood as they look to turn the corner on an 18-20 record compiled the last three seasons...

Jackson E. "Jack" Heffner, 86 of Shelbyville, died Monday at his son's residence in Cookeville. A Celebration of Life service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Episcopal Church of the Redeemer with Father Peter Whalen officiating. Visitation will be held at the family home from 3-6 p.m. Friday. Doak-Howell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Guns were pointed at small children in two home invasions late last week, Shelbyville police said. No shots were fired in the incidents at homes on South Brittain and Quarry streets, in which $120 was taken at one location and a cell phone at the other. n A South Brittain Street resident told police he was attempting to lull his 2-week-old son to sleep shortly after midnight Thursday morning when a man described as black, standing approximately 6 feet tall to 6-foot-2 and wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt entered the front door holding what appeared to be a Glock pistol.. ...

No one was allowed in or out of Shelbyville's Tyson Foods facility for 90 minutes Monday afternoon following a bomb threat. But after the West Jackson Street building was checked by company staff, workers were allowed to return to their jobs. According to Tyson Human Resource manager Jeff Watson, a call was received by a receptionist after 1 p.m. from a man who said, "There is a bomb in the plant."...

Bedford County is ready to enforce a couple of new laws on the books this year, including one impacting those who can't prove they are in the country legally. But the sheriff wonders how the feds are going to be able to keep up with all the people who will get reported under the new law...

A Shelbyville man is being held in Coffee County on over $100,000 bond after he allegedly robbed a Tullahoma convenience store on New Year's Day. Johnny Charles Cates, 29, of Highway 130 West has been charged with aggravated robbery and is being held under $102,500 bond. He is scheduled to appear in Coffee County General Sessions Court on Feb. 10...

A man was charged with assault on a Shelbyville police officer and resisting arrest after a struggle early New Year's morning. Police were sent to the Nutmeg Drive home of William Thomas Mayberry, 29, to check on his well being after being told he had threatened to take his life, which he later denied...