Stories from Wednesday, April 20, 2011

A drug charge was filed against a man who allegedly hit another car while trying to elude officers Monday night, Shelbyville police said. Craig Clark Green 32, Cherokee Drive, was charged with simple possession of a schedule VI drug and failure to appear after 7.62 grams of marijuana were found in his pocket, officer Jerry Draine's report said...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has sent the case of a man who claimed he served 14 months in jail for a crime he didn't commit back to the Criminal Court of Appeals. Last September, the appellate court ruled that prosecutors presented insufficient evidence to prove that James Edward "Blue" Farrar Jr., violated the terms of his probation by being publicly intoxicated, reversing the judgment handed down by Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell in 2009...

Shelbyville Central capped off Senior Night with a 1-1 tie against Lincoln County, which is unbeaten in District 8-AAA, on Tuesday. Shelbyville junior Christian Gomez gave the Eagles an early lead after he converted a penalty kick. The Falcons scored in the second half...

Forrest used the long ball Tuesday night to break out of a five-year slump against District 9-A rival Cascade. The Rockets banged three balls out of the yard in Chapel Hill to defeat the Champions 9-5, breaking a 13-game losing skid in the rivalry spanning back to May 11, 2006 when Forrest last won a district tourney championship...

Good hitting backed by quality pitching led Shelbyville Central to a 9-5 win over visiting Lawrence County in a District 8-AAA contest on Tuesday evening. Junior Blair Dukes and sophomore Jackson McAnally each hit a long ball while sophomore Reed Emerson pitched into the seventh inning to claim the win...

Riverdale's tennis team gave Shelbyville Central a hard time in Murfreesboro on Tuesday. The Eagles and Eaglettes were both handed 8-1 losses. Shelbyville's Jonathan Smotherman was responsible for the lone singles win. The doubles tandem of Victoria Dugan and Kasondra Johnson logged the other victory...

It took a total of five pitchers and two hours, 20 minutes to get it done, but Richland outlasted Cascade 13-8 in a slugfest on a windy Tuesday evening in Wartrace. Lady Raider Taylor Parker put on a display of power that awed the fans. The freshman catcher bashed three home runs, drove in five and scored four times to lead a potent offense. Her final blast was a laser that dented the scoreboard in left field...

Cascade's soccer team entered its District 11-A/AA match on Tuesday looking for its first victory. Page came to Wartrace having not allowed a single goal in its three previous district matches. Add to the polar opposite results thus far in 2011 that the Champions sought revenge for getting bounced from last season's district tournament by the Patriots and the game had the traits for a major upset...

Webb returned to its home pitch after five consecutive road matches and played East/Middle Region foe Zion Christian Academy on Lagler Field. The Feet defended their home turf, winning 3-0. Cameron Togrye put Webb (4-2-2, 3-1 East/Middle) on the board in the fourth minute on an assist from Josh Ferrell. The advantage stayed 1-0 for the rest of the first half...

The Community Vikings lost a 2-1 heartbreaker to Eagleville in extra innings on Tuesday night with both runs being unearned by the victors. Zeke Grissom pitched into the eighth inning allowing one unearned run while yielding just two hits. He struck out six and scattered four walks in the no-decision...

Michael Imes and Colton Melson handled the pitching duties and a host of hitters provided the offense as host Harris Middle rolled past Tullahoma 12-4 in a key Central Tennessee Conference matchup on Tuesday. Imes started for HMS going four innings, allowing three runs, two walks, four hits while fanning a pair of batters. Melson took over in the top of the 5th and finished the game giving up one run, three hits with a walk and a strikeout...

After trailing early, Harris Middle's Golden Eaglettes rallied to claim a 3-2 win over visiting Tullahoma in a Central Tennessee Conference battle on Tuesday. Tullahoma led 2-0 after the first inning but the Eaglettes rallied for three runs in the bottom of the third...

A Murfreesboro man who broke into a residence where a teen girl was home alone has lost an appeal to reduce his nine-year sentence. Larry Randall Henry II, of Crater Road, Murfreesboro, filed an appeal stating that Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell erred by imposing the sentence for aggravated burglary after being found guilty by a jury in January 2010...

A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit by a former Bedford County jail inmate who claimed he was denied medical treatment for a perforated esophagus while locked up. U.S. District Judge Harry S. Mattice, Jr. dismissed "without prejudice" a suit filed by Randall Edwin Fulghum against Sheriff Randall Boyce, deputies identified as "Officer Bear, Officer Cam, Officer Doug, John Doe #1," a nurse called Jane Doe #2, a male nurse identified as John Doe #3 and Dr. ...

Bedford County Board of Commissioners' rules and legislative committee gave its recommendation Tuesday night to a proposal which would add planned unit developments to the county's zoning resolution. PUDs give subdivision developers more flexibility; they can put houses closer together than allowed by existing zones, and mix in condominiums, town houses and other types of development, in return for adding amenities such as parks, open space, bike trails or landscaped streets...

Chace Warren and Preston Frazier combined for six hits to lead the Liberty Patriots to a 4-1 win over visiting Cornersville in Mid-South Conference action on Tuesday night. The Bulldogs took a 1-0 lead in the third but the Patriots answered in their half of the inning when Jacob Butler led off with a hit and then stole second base...

Shelbyville firefighters are undergoing extensive training in rescuing victims of severe auto accidents this week. Firefighters cut the roof off a car during a simulation of a wreck involving two persons trapped under a flaming tractor-trailer hauling poisonous chemicals.

Even Oprah couldn't save the Flip Video. The days of the portable, handheld video camera, which we at the Times-Gazette have been using for some time to make videos for our web site, are numbered. I still remember when the newspaper got its first Flip. ...

Oy, is my face red!! Here I am, Ms. Shakespeare Scholar, English Major and Number One Bedford County Bard Cheerleader, and I got a quote wrong. Not just wrong -- I didn't even have the right author. In my story about the Fly play "Cash on Delivery," which just closed to rave reviews besides mine Saturday, I attributed the "Oh, what a tangled web we weave" quote to the late great William S...