Stories from Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Shelbyville police stayed busy investigating burglaries and thefts over the past week, records show. l An illuminated snowman was stolen from the yard and an illuminated wreath from the side of a home on Union Street Thursday night or Friday, police said...

CHAPEL HILL--The Cascade Middle Lady Champions lost two games to the Community Viqueens during the regular season but won the one that counted in a hard-fought 28-24 win on Saturday night to claim the Duck River Conference Championship Tournament. Juli Jones jump-started the Lady Champions' offense with a 3-pointer in the opening minutes and Maya Gaston added a basket to stake their team to a 5-2 lead at the end of one quarter. Sarah Pierce sunk the only basket for Community in the frame...

CHAPEL HILL--It was a rough night for the Community Middle Vikings on Saturday night in a 39-24 loss in the championship game of the Duck River Valley World Tournament to Middle Tennessee Christian. The intensity and effort were definitely there but it was just one of those games where the ball wouldn't fall and the bounces simply didn't go the Purple and Gold's way as the Cougars finished the season by pinning them with three of their four losses on the season...

T-G Photo by Jimmy Jones All-Conference team were (not in order): Trey Hickey, MTCS, Luke Howell, MTCS, Joseph Peck, MTCS, Corey Mooneyham, Community, Darian Pride, Community, Jacob Kupczyk, Community, Austin Gentry, Cascade, Hayden Edmondson, Cascade, Tyler Huff, Cascade, Spenser Reese, Moore County...

Early turnovers proved costly in Shelbyville Central's 42-40 loss to visiting Oakland in a non-district matchup on Monday. The Golden Eagles turned the ball over time and time again in the first half but found themselves only behind 13-7 at the end of the first quarter and 25-17 at halftime...

Shelbyville Central has struggled to put points on the board early in games all season, but that wasn't the case in the Golden Eaglettes' 74-64 home victory over previously unbeaten Oakland in a non-district clash on Monday night. The Eaglettes (6-4) exploded for 20 points in the opening frame and were a frequent visitor at the free throw line throughout the game, cashing in on 31-of-46 attempts...

Nearly $1 million in payments are due creditors who were victims of a Ponzi scheme by the late Murfreesboro financier Robert McLean. McLean died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound the day before a bankruptcy hearing in 2007. The financier swindled $67 million from investors and creditors while making donations to friends, MTSU and the Country Music Hall of Fame. A Ponzi scheme is where early investors are paid off with money put up by later ones...

A Shelbyville man who fired shots at a home in 2009 after a drug deal went bad has been denied an appeal for a shorter prison term. Derrick Lamont Parrish, 34, formerly of Cedar River Road, is serving a 16 1/2-year sentence after entering a best-interest plea on a number of felony charges...

Local business leaders and educators came together Monday evening to address the future of Bedford County students. About 30 were in attendance in the auditorium at Shelbyville Central High School, and left in agreement to work together to improve graduation rates...

This is my son's Pinewood derby car, it didn't win any races but it sure looked cool.

My ten year old son found this fella out back in the creek. We examined it and learned a few things about it then set it free.

I seen this beauty of a car while doing some work in Manchester. David ran out there real fast, through his hands up and said "Take the picture!".

A generation that remembers still speaks of a time when a hungry man could knock at the door of a farmhouse and ask to be fed. A glass of milk, a biscuit from that morning's breakfast. It was the Great Depression. Times were tough, but families took care of their own, taking in cousins or nieces and nephews temporarily when their parents couldn't provide for them...