Stories from Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The TV special "Saturday Night Live: Just Commercials," which ran Sunday in prime time, included a parody commercial which aired on SNL earlier this season in which a young man (Andy Samberg) is horrified to discover that his mother (guest host Jane Lynch) has joined Facebook...

Driving back and forth from Tullahoma and Shelbyville five days a week -- seven days when the 18-year-old Duke D'Anjou has weekend rehearsals for the Renaissance Faire in Triune -- is always educational. I can now identify 99.9 percent of Tennessee wildlife by the scattered bits of fur and feather left after the vehicles and vultures have had their ways with them...

Webb Middle dropped its home soccer opener 5-2 to Warren County Middle in a non-conference match on Monday. Marshall Maxwell scored in the 22nd minute off an assist from Jared Wilson for the first Webb (1-1) goal. Wilson netted the other goal for the Feet in the 50th minute unassisted...

WINCHESTER -- Shelbyville Central's bid for the District 8-AAA tournament championship fell short in a 55-45 loss to top seed Lawrence County on Tuesday night. Despite the loss, the Eagles will host Riverdale in the opening round of the Region 4-AAA tournament Saturday night at 7. Riverdale edged Blackman 48-44 in the District 7-AAA consolation game...

An intoxicated, armed woman allegedly stole a truck from a Shelbyville funeral home and drove to a Unionville school to pick up her child Monday afternoon, Shelbyville police said. Rhonda June Grogan, 39, U.S. 41A North, was stopped at a store near Community Elementary School by Sgt. Rick Gann of the Bedford County Sheriff's Department shortly after leaving with the child. She had the firearm with her on school property, the police report said, and was charged accordingly...

A McMinnville man arrested in Shelbyville last year was recently acquitted by a federal grand jury of a firearms charge, while pleading guilty to drug trafficking counts. Meanwhile, another man arrested as an accomplice is awaiting sentencing for his role in the crimes after entering a guilty plea...

Islam is the second largest religion in the world -- and the fastest growing -- yet few Americans know anything about it. That, according to the Rev. Peter Whalen of Episcopal Church of the Redeemer and pastor Kent Lewis of Christ Lutheran Church, could be a grave error, and the root of future misunderstanding...

Figures presented Tuesday night to Bedford County Financial Management Committee by county finance director Robert Daniel document that the county's juvenile detention center, once touted as a moneymaker for the county, now costs the county more than $400,000 a year to operate and may house only one or two juveniles at any given time...

Harris Middle School, the only county school with geothermal heating and cooling, had by far the lowest per-square-foot energy costs of any school in the county during the 2009-2010 school year, according to a presentation Thursday night by Daniel Kleindienst, who oversees the school system's maintenance, to Bedford County Board of Education...

Clyde Dunnavant, 71, of Shelbyville died Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Gallant-Riverview Funeral Home in Fayetteville. Burial will follow at New Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m. today.

immy Ray Long, 63, of Shelbyville died Wednesday at his home after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Jim Sorrells officiating. Burial will follow at Talley Cemetery in Petersburg. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Friday.