Stories from Thursday, January 12, 2012

Most deer and turkey hunters use maps for one purpose, to navigate from place to place. The truth is, a map is much more than a navigation or survival tool, it's an awesome scouting tool as well. In recent years the handheld Global Positioning Systems, or GPS, have gained in popularity with the outdoor public. ...

Margie Sue Alford Martin, 58, of Shelbyville died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Johnny Donnell officiating. Burial will follow at Hazel Cemetery in Bell Buckle. Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m Saturday.

Kenneth W. Jarrell, 46, of Bloomfield Township, Mich., formerly of Rover, died Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012 Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Lawrence Funeral Home in Chapel Hill with the Rev. Willis Pope officiating. Private burial will follow at Jarrell Family Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4-8 p.m. Friday.

orothy Smotherman Cates, 82, of Franklin, a Wartrace native, died Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Gowen-Smith Chapel. Burial will follow at Hollywood Cemetery in Wartrace. Visitation will begin at noon.

Students at Harris Middle School had fun with "flinking" this week in instructor John Ziegler's science lab. The eighth graders are studying density as a property of matter. ...

Lon Hoover Shelton, 98, of Shelbyville died Wednesday, January 11, 2012, at his home after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel. Burial will follow at Shelton Cemetery in Beech Grove. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m.

While one lawsuit against the sheriff and county has been settled, a trial date has been set for next year in the litigation filed by the department's former child abuse investigator. Meanwhile, the county filed documents Wednesday denying many of the allegations made against the sheriff...

A woman serving an 18-year sentence for theft and credit card fraud has lost her appeal. Sheila Marie Lott had claimed she had received ineffective assistance of counsel and that her plea was not voluntarily made when she made an open plea in 2008 to a variety of charges...

Sentencing has been delayed until the end of next month for two people who have admitted their guilt in a federal horse soring case. Jeffery Bradford, 33, of Lewisburg, and Christen Altman, 25, of Shelbyville will now be sentenced on Feb. 27 instead of the original date of Feb. 13, according to an order by U.S. District Judge Harry S. Mattice Jr...

What a bore. I thought the bowl games were supposed to be exciting. Well, with the exception of the BCS National Championship game, they were pretty fun to watch--even bowls with the teams I can't stand. First off, probably the best game in the bowl season to watch had to be the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. ...

A Shelbyville man is accused of taking a wedding band from a friend's home and selling it for cash Tuesday. Frankie Dewayne Fuller, Jr., 24, Woodland Avenue, allegedly spotted the ring, valued at $600, on a chain hanging from a wall at the Fairground Heights home, police were told. The ring belongs to a woman who shares the home with his friend...