Stories from Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Emogene Reed Follis, 77, of Shelbyville died Monday at Heritage Medical Center after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Mike Williams officiating. Burial will follow at Cothran Cemetery in Rover. Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday.

Money was stolen from a soft drink vending machine at Dollar General Market, North Main Street, a delivery driver told police Friday. A door was pried, police said. Also reported to Shelbyville police: The owner said screws were removed with a screwdriver or by being pried. Each sheet was worth $50...

Bedford County Communications Center is considering joining the Smart 9-1-1 program, which supporters say allows users to voluntarily and securely input personal information which might be useful in case of an emergency. Com center director Cathey Mathis said the Emergency Communications District (E-911) board has funds available to subscribe to the service but would first like feedback from citizens about whether or not it would be used...

The case of a Normandy man accused of abusing his infant son, who later died, was not presented to the March session of the Bedford County grand jury. Instead, Andrew Keith Johnston, 18, will appear before Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler when the jury meets again on April 18...

A Murfreesboro man was arraigned Monday on vehicular homicide charges stemming from a motorcycle accident last June that killed his wife. John Davis Haynes, 51, is free on $35,000 bond and will appear in court next on April 18. Last June 5, Pamela Haynes, 49, was killed when her husband lost control of their motorcycle on State Highway 82 at a sharp curve just east of the Bell Buckle town limits, said...

It was almost like the last class of the 2010 Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration revisited. When Star, a crowd favorite whose registered name is actually Moody Star, was called as the stakes winner of the 43rd annual National Trainers Show Saturday night, the crowd went wild...

Davie Barnes and Sarah Pierce combined for half of Community Middle's base hits to lead the Viqueens to a 7-2 win over Westwood Middle in Manchester on Monday. "Most of our hits today were bunts and the short game seemed to work for us today," Community coach Erin Haywood said. "We only had one extra base hit. Not to mention we were really aggressive on the bases tonight."...

Two twine-thinners off the foot of eighth grader Chavez Tempongko led Cascade Middle to a 3-0 victory over visiting St. Andrew's-Sewanee on a near-perfect Monday afternoon. Tempongko banged in both of his goals courtesy of assists from Trent Madgett. The first came in the 39th minute and the second in the 50th minute...

Thomas Lindeman is making a case for himself as the top arm in the Mid-South Conference this season. The Cascade eighth grader, who missed the early part of the season with an arm in a cast, racked up 14 strikeouts in a 4-0 victory over visiting Community Middle on Monday...

Harris Middle's Golden Eagles remain undefeated, as well as the junior varsity, after claiming a pair of wins on Monday night and last Friday night. The Eagles (3-0, 3-0 Central Tennessee Conference) return to action after spring break on April 4 at home against Franklin County North in a conference matchup at 5:30 at the SCHS soccer field...

What figured to be a pitchers' duel turned out to be just that as neither Cascade right-hander Jared Carkuff nor Moore County southpaw Vann Boyce was ready to budge after eight innings of District 9-A baseball on Monday in Lynchburg. Each ace surrendered just two runs before giving way to their respective bullpens...

Things started badly for the Community Viqueens when they discovered that All-District hurler Brittany Haynes couldn't take the ball due to injury and got worse when the defense let down novice replacement Tiffani Grogan to the tune of seven errors in a 19-0 loss to Moore County Monday afternoon...

The Community Vikings opened District 9-A play with a 15-7 loss to visiting Middle Tennessee Christian on Monday afternoon despite a nine-hit attack fueled by freshman Logan Pierce's two hits, two RBI and a run scored. The Cougars went right to work with four runs in the first off of freshman starter Taylor Paschal on back-to-back doubles by Kyle Howard and Heath Bowman and a two-run homer off the bat of Kody Phillips...

Cascade's softball team jumped on top by scoring the first four runs and held on for a 5-2 win over visiting Eagleville in a District 9-A clash Monday. Tori Slater singled and scored in the bottom of the first to put the Lady Champions (4-0, 3-0 9-A) up 1-0...

HENDERSONVILLE -- Shelbyville Central claimed a pool play win over White County, then rolled past Clarksville in the opening round of the Commando Classic before dropping a decision to Coffee County on Saturday. "I would have loved to have one a few more game but we really played some great teams and we got in six more games before we start our district schedule," Eaglette coach Robin Ayers said. ...