Stories from Thursday, September 6, 2012

A woman's plea for a jack so she could change her car's flat tire while a friend slept in the front seat ended with the arrest of both Tuesday. Officers discovered an allegedly-intoxicated Jennie Nicole Rawls, 22, of Murfreesboro next to the vehicle on Madison Street. ...

Josef Alexander Lopez-Jolly, 3 year old son of Wilibaldo Lopez and Jessica Jolly of Shelbyville. Grand "Nina",Billie Shelton of Shelbyville. Great grandmother, Roberta Jolly of Shelbyville.

Dr. Carl Bailey recognized recently that he had a choice in keeping open the Community Religious Outreach Social Services project he founded. "Cease operations, or pull up our bootstraps," he said. Choosing the latter, the group opened a sales counter at the Bargain Depot on Depot Street last week, offering knives, swords, replica weapons, lighters and tools at reasonable prices...

Two weeks' worth of political party conventions and we're hearing the same rhetoric we've heard all summer. Both presidential candidates claim to be for the working person, and the rich person, and for our health, and for making us all prosperous, and to be the one who will change our world...

To The Editor: This election is undoubtedly the most important in the history of America. Because of the failures of the policies of this Administration, we now have a $16 trillion debt, continual trillion dollar annual deficits, 24 million un- and under-employed, $4 gas prices, a stifled economy, and policies that discourage business growth. These are all topics that Obama neglects to address or misleads his audiences by spin, misstatements, and outright lies. What other options does he have?...

Officer Tracey Harvey has been elected as the Middle Tennessee advisor for the Tennessee School Resource Officer Association. In this position, Harvey will be a liaison for all SROs in the mid-state and the association. "Harvey's knowledge and expertise will greatly assist the association, and SROs as well as parents and students by being the point of contact if the need arises. Harvey is always there to lend that helping hand."...

Changes are likely to be made to a proposed background check policy of Shelbyville youth sports team volunteers following advice from the city attorney. The issue has been on and off the city council's agenda since June, after the parks and recreation board recommended the policy, which has gone through several revisions since that time...

Imagine a row of light switches in a large meeting room. You don't know exactly which switch does what, but there's one easy way to find out: flip one of them, and see which light turns on or off as a result. Now, imagine the same problem, on a much smaller scale, inside a living cell...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies were searching areas of Franklin County today for clues in the disappearence of Shelbyville teacher Shelley Mook. The ground search was based from a command post at the CSX railroad yard in Cowan, TBI spokesperson Kristin Helm said this morning...

A study committee, meeting Wednesday afternoon, has recommended that Bedford County adopt a $30 per year wheel tax, with $20 going to make county teacher salaries more competitive with surrounding counties and $10 going to the county highway department for a paving program...

Call it improbability. Call it rookie luck. Call it whatever. Whatever "it" is appears to be working for the Cascade Champions. The Champs hit the road on Friday night for the first road challenge of the 2012 year and travel to Wayne County (0-3). While the Champs have posted a 3-0 record so far this season, with a pair of come-from-behind wins over Mt. Pleasant (29-28) and Jo Byrns (14-6) and a 32-7 blowout win over MTCS this past week, things are beginning to click for the Cascade Champions...

Having dropped two games in-a-row, the Community Vikings (1-2, 0-1 9A) are looking to right the ship and pick up a road win against McEwen (0-2) on Friday night. "Last week, we had three special teams miscues that led to 21 points. We felt like that allowed them (Forrest) to have positive field position and put them in good standing to score those points on us," said Community coach Johnnie Frost...

Billy Joe Harris, 67, of Shelbyville died Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 at the Alvin C. York V.A. Medical Center in Murfreesboro. Graveside services with military rites will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens with the Rev. Bobby McGee and Dan Fulton officiating. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. at Hillcrest Funeral Home.

They are the greatest grandparents a child could ever ask for. I am blessed to have them in my childrens life. We love them very much and appreciate all they do for us. God Bless them and keep them safe and healthy always.

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