Stories from Wednesday, February 2, 2011

A man attempted to falsely claim he was returning a Vivitar underwater digital camera to Walmart on Monday afternoon, Shelbyville police said. The suspect carried the camera from the electronics department to the service desk and claimed it was a gift from his grandmother, police were told...

An early advantage didn't hold up for the Webb Lady Feet in a 51-40 loss to visiting University School of Nashville on Tuesday night. USN had three players score in double digits. Jameice Holmes and Hannah Stein both registered 12 points. Bailey Connor had 11...

Webb came up on the short end of a back-and-forth contest Tuesday night, falling 35-34 to East/Middle Region guest University School of Nashville. The Feet (7-11, 4-4) were outscored 14-8 in the third quarter, which caused them to fall behind 29-26...

MURFREESBORO -- It wasn't the showing they preferred but the result will do just fine as the Cascade Lady Champions downed host Middle Tennessee Christian 46-45 in overtime on Tuesday night. Cascade (12-10, 7-6 District 9-A) survived a 5-for-13 performance at the foul line in the bonus period to squeak out the win and secure a season sweep over the Lady Cougars...

Bedford County lost one of its two 4-H agent positions as a result of last week's cutbacks in the University of Tennessee Extension budget, said local extension agent John Teague. "Obviously, that's going to impact ... how we do things," said Teague...

"Abhorrent" is how attorneys representing two adoption agencies involved in the matter of an boy sent back to Russia are describing arguments to dismiss the case. In late December, a lawyer representing Torry Hansen filed a motion to dismiss child support claims made by Hansen's adoption agency, the World Association for Children and Parents (WACAP)...

The Civil War, 150 years later, still raises strong opinions among Americans of various regions and races. How should it be remembered? For what cause were the individual soldiers on each side truly fighting? A Murfreesboro physician who helped found the U.S. Colored Troops Living History Association believes that it's important to remember history, and he doesn't mind doing it by donning a period uniform and participating in re-enactments...

It was simply no contest from the start Tuesday night as the visiting Forrest Lady Rockets came out in a gear that the Community Viqueens could not match. Before fans could get settled in their seats, the home team trailed by 22-0 when the first period ended on the way to a 57-37 loss...

Jake Leverette and Austin Thurber combined for 35 points and the Community Vikings gave the Forrest Rockets, the No. 1 team in District 9-A, all they wanted into the closing seconds Tuesday night. But in the end, the better seasoned team found a way to win 67-63 after trailing for more than three quarters...

SPARTA -- To say that the Eaglettes gave one away is a huge understatement. Shelbyville Central led by as much as 10 points on three different occasions but failed to close the deal in a 50-49 loss at White County in a non-district contest on Tuesday night...

SPARTA -- It was a valiant effort but Shelbyville Central fell 65-54 at White County on Tuesday night in a non-district matchup. The Eagles played without three starters and coach Kevin Thomas can't wait to get his entire team back on the court. "We're without three starters and we just need to get healthy. ...

The changes that the Internet has made, and is continuing to make, in the ways we communicate with each other continue to amaze me. There was a video making the rounds last week of a Today show clip from 1994 of Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel totally clueless about what the Internet was. Today, it's hard to remember life without it. The same could be said of mobile phones...

ACT I, sc. 1 EXTERIOR SHOT. Camera pans slowly across a peaceful countryside. Snow is everywhere, but not the beautiful, pure snow of corny Christmas cards. This is the ice-edged dirty snows of a winter that has lasted too long. ZOOM in on a group of people, all laughing and cheering. Their festive manner seems forced and sad, as though they are determined to have a good time, whether they want to or not... But then. it's not quite dawn, and who wants to be festive at daybreak?...

One of the most talented football players to come through Shelbyville Central this century signed scholarship papers today as Bobby Wilson pledged his services to Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. Wilson, who now joins Samford coach Pat Sullivan's fifth signing class, made the move from defensive end to linebacker his senior season and piled up 142 tackles, including 22 for losses, to go with seven forced fumbles...

MURFREESBORO -- Cascade's boys saved the best for last as a late-game rally allowed them to prevail 57-48 over Middle Tennessee Christian on Tuesday evening. "We've said all along that we control our own fate, that's the good thing about it," Cascade coach Charlie Pope said. "It's a relief to come into a tough place to play and get a win because those guys have beat some teams here that have beat us."...

Claiming they have been "misled," members of the Shelbyville City Council asked Tuesday at a study session to reexamine the details of options presented previously on how to deal with paying for garbage pick-up. But the first reading of an ordinance to do away with sanitation services is still set to be on the council's agenda for next week's meeting...