Stories from Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Effie Evans Fults, 84, of Wartrace died Tuesday at Glen Oaks Convalescent Center. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with Don Gallagher officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Wednesday.

Cline H. Faulk Patterson, 71, of Ocala, Fla. died Saturday, June 25 at her home. Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 2n at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.

The scent of the ink stings the nostrils upon entry into the Times-Gazette offices. It was an unfamiliar smell as my time at previous publications didn't involve working feet away from a printing press. An interview, a pair of emails and phone calls later with publisher Hugh Jones and I was moving from Huntsville, Ala., to Shelbyville to embark on a full-time career as an editor, sports reporter and photographer...

An ATV accident on Stonefield Circle in Shelbyville left a Shelbyville man dead Sunday. Matthew Colton Ogles, 22, of 103 Stonefield Circle was killed when he was thrown from an all-terrain vehicle he was riding on a long, sweeping curve near his home shortly after noon. He died at the scene, police said...

The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association approved a pair of changes that will affect District 9-A for the upcoming school year. Although it was already forced to pull out of the athletic calendar this past season, F.C. Boyd Christian withdrew its membership from the TSSAA, which became effective at the completion of its school year...

It was a spiritual buffet for the horse lover's soul last week at Calsonic Arena, with horses and riders coming from all over Tennessee to compete in the State 4-H Horse Championships. There were many breeds: quarter horse, thoroughbred, Arabian, Morgan, Tennessee Walking Horse, POA. There was every color imaginable, from flea-bitten gray to golden palomino. Polo and cross-country were just about the only horse-related events that weren't represented. Yet...

Members of Shelbyville's board of zoning appeals have been added to an ongoing $10 million federal lawsuit filed by a local paving company concerning a proposed rock quarry. Meanwhile, the city recently won a decision in state court related to litigation filed in 2005 after the city turned the controversial project down for approval...

A multi-county chase began when a state trooper allegedly saw a man urinating beside Interstate 24 in Bedford County and ended with shots fired from a burning car in Murfreesboro late Saturday night about 11 p.m. The car's driver, identified as Toby Wade Youngblood, 25, of Lewisburg, fired at a Rutherford County deputy shortly before the chase ended, officials said...

Tonight's the night that Shelbyville's council will make two decisions -- signing off on next year's budget and choosing a new city manager. A public hearing will precede tonight's city council's vote on the 2011-2012 budget, which is expected to contain a 22-cent property tax increase. The council meets in the courtroom at Shelbyville Police Department beginning at 6 p.m...

A Shelbyville man accused of attacking a woman with a tire iron in front of her 2-year-old son Saturday night on Scotland Heights has been charged with attempted murder. Lavario Devon Kibble, 31, of Barksdale Lane is charged with especially aggravated stalking, reckless endangerment (three counts), criminal attempt to commit first degree murder. He is being held on $260,000 bond...