Stories from Sunday, March 11, 2012

This year's Times-Gazette college basketball bracket contest, March Mayhem, will deliver more fun for players, more ways to play, and the chance to win both local and national prizes. Kincaid Service Company is again the title sponsor of the bracket contest with the Times-Gazette...

On Friday, March 2, there was rough weather in Bedford County, and schools dismissed early, but -- aside from some frightening hail -- there was relatively little damage. Other parts of the country weren't so lucky. The weather was also rough on that day as Phillip Swing of Shelbyville drove his Titan Transfer 18-wheeler south on Interstate 65. He was coming from Goshen, Ind., with a load for the Nissan Motor Manufacturing Corp. plant in Smyrna...

WARTRACE--The Cascade Middle Champions needed just four and a half innings to put away Cornersville on Friday afternoon. The Champs piled up 10 runs through three innings on nine hits, while limiting scoring opportunities for the visitors. Seth Gardner drove in the first run for the Champs in the bottom of the first inning on an RBI single...

Cascade piled up 15 runs in a just over four innings of play against Westwood on Friday afternoon. The Lady Champs erupted for seven runs in the bottom of the first inning after Kendall Durard held the visitors hitless in the first three at-bats in the top of the inning...

Coming into Friday afternoon's showdown in Unionville, the FMS Lady Rockets had averaged 11.5 runs per game during their 4-0 start, but that was before they ran into Viqueen hurler Karla Pena, who tossed a solid, 6-0 shutout gem as Community took over first place in conference play...

A registered sex offender was arrested after he allegedly followed a teenage girl into a rest room and made lewd comments. Kenneth M. Throneberry, 55, of Cedar Springs Road has been charged with observation without consent following an incident Thursday afternoon at the Medical Arts Building, 841 Union St...

A 22-year-old Columbia man has been charged in connection with contacting a 16-year-old Shelbyville girl, Shelbyville police said. Tigue Anthony Kennedy Jr. was arrested Thursday on two counts of statutory rape and one count of solicitation of a minor by electronic means...

What a great article. I would like to see this go (Associated Press), and a copy to every school in the nation, and a copy to go to every parent...

I've heard folks tell of God speaking to them audibly, or in a dream or vision, and with very few exceptions, I never doubt their assertions. I believe God's relationship with us is so individualized, when He has a Big message to convey He uses means of delivery which we can personally grasp -- one whose source we can't doubt or dismiss. ...

Take a look inside of a beekeeper's hive sometime. What you'll find seems like a frenzied swarm of activity, but it is actually a model of efficiency that is difficult to parallel. One could almost liken it to America during World War II. Everyone had a specific role -- some more glamorous, some more dangerous -- but each one important and vital...

March is one of those transitional months - in like a lion, out like a lamb. It looks pretty outside but can be deceiving, and everyone is looking forward to the longer, warmer days and fresh produce from the garden. But, for now, we depend on our pantry, longer storage items and staple produce from the grocery store...

I did something this week that I have thought about doing for a long time. I said "Thank You" to someone that I have wanted to thank for a while now. I was at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville visiting some parishioners, and right near the hospital sits the office of the surgeon who walked with me through 8 surgeries in 2010 and 2011. I have wanted to make a point of visiting him and saying a special "Thank You." So this week I did...