Stories from Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Marion Henry Rees, 86, of Flat Creek died Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at Harton Regional Medical Center in Tullahoma. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with Marvin Whitworth officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Friday.

A former Shelbyville woman who sent her young adopted son back to Russia two years ago won't be appearing in court, her mother told the T-G. Nancy Hansen's daughter, Torry Hansen, sent Artyom Savaliev back alone on a plane to Moscow, claiming he was violent...

A team of deputies and rescue workers was searching Duck River on Tuesday afternoon in the area where a human skull was recovered earlier in the day, but Sheriff Randall Boyce said he wasn't expecting any more related items to be recovered. "'We've got a team floating the river," Boyce said. "They put in at the bridge, about a mile and a half from the location where the skull was found. They'll see if there's anything. It's not likely they'll find anything else."...

At last month's meeting of Bedford County Board of Commissioners' courthouse and county property committee, area residents complained about noise from the county-owned, city-operated firing range located along the Duck River south of Shelbyville. The committee heard Tuesday night that the number of incidents at the firing range has dropped off dramatically over the past month, which committee members took to indicate that there was unscheduled and unauthorized use of the range taking place and that it had been discouraged by news reports of the controversy last month.. ...

A longtime colleague of beloved MTSU education professor Robert "Dr. Bob" Womack is confident. "They say 'there'll always be an England,'" said the College of Education's other "Dr. Bob," Professor Emeritus Robert "Bob" Bullen. "Well, at MTSU, we say there'll always be a Womack."...

Randall Harvey runs along Evans Street as he gets some exercise on Monday. (T-G Photo by Jim Davis)

In a game that was much closer than the final score on the scoreboard read, the Community Vikings notched a 4-1 win over District 11 A/AA foe Forrest on Tuesday afternoon. With the field soaked from rains earlier in the day, the field proved treacherous for the teams and added even more tense exchanges and plays from the backyard rivals...

Shelbyville Central's Golden Eagles brought their hitting sticks in a 10-6 win over Lincoln County on the road in a District 8-AAA matchup on Tuesday night. The Eagles (9-13, 2-5 8-AAA) collected 13 base hits and scored at least one run in every inning but two...

WINCHESTER--To say that Shelbyville Central let one slip away us a huge understatement. The Golden Eaglettes left 11 runners on base and had more than twice as many hits as Franklin County but came up on the short end of a 1-0 loss on the road in a District 8-AAA matchup on Tuesday night...

It was a tough night for Shelbyville Central as the Eagles fell 5-2 to host Columbia in a District 8-AAA match on Tuesday night. "I'll just say we had to play through a lot of adversity," Shelbyville coach Neal Gordon said. "We did a lot of good things and got to play a lot of different players."...

The Shelby Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution and the Argie Cooper Public Library, held a joint program for children on Wednesday, April 11 at the library. Gay Mixon, Native American Chairman of the local DAR, and Jessica Osborne, children's librarian at the Argie Cooper Library, worked together to present this entertaining program...

Three beautiful children enjoying the nice weather. Alexia, Corbin and Madylyne Caruthers, grandbabies of Sheree and Bruce Caruthers.

Holly Bass was a cafeteria worker here at Shelbyville Central High School. On April 4th, she died from cancer at the age of 50. Her death came as a surprise and put the school in a state of shock. This world will be a little better place to live because Mrs. ...

I used part of my tax refund this year to buy the basic, $79 Amazon Kindle e-reader. The Kindle, which is optimized for reading books, has a black-and-white, easy-on-the-eyes "e-ink" screen, and it's different from the $199 Kindle Fire, which has a backlit color screen and which lets you not only read books but watch movies, listen to music and so on...

Erica Dugger and Austin Smith are proud to announce the birth of twin boys, A'Korion and A'Tayvien Smith. The twin boys were born on Saturday, April 7 at Harton Regional Medical Center in Tullahoma. Grandparents are Cathey and Barry Dugger, and Mary Frazier and David Smith, all of Shelbyville. ...