Stories from Friday, January 4, 2013

LaDonna McCullough Nagata, 62, of Honolulu, formerly of Bell Buckle, died Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012 at her home. There will be no local service. At her request, her remains will be cremated.

Hazel Kilgore Meeks, 85, of Bell Buckle died Friday, Jan. 4, 2013 at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Wallace Rowland officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 2-6 p.m. Saturday.

For Shelbyville's public works, 2013 is going to be the year for stormwater management. As the city's various departments lay out goals, much of public works director Mark Clanton's focus will be to get the city in compliance with federal environmental regulations before the end of the year...

Getting a GED will be one of the requirements for a man who accepted a plea arrangement Thursday for forging signatures to run for the Shelbyville city council. Jimmy Neal Anderton, 44, of Highland Court, received a deferred judgement after pleading guilty to the Class E felony -- false entries on official registration of election documents, a crime that carried a one- to six-year sentence...

Barbara Hague says a local cancer support organization has made a huge difference in her life. Hague, who is battling breast cancer, had to quit her job at a local inn based on her doctor's advice. She filed for disability, but that didn't stop the bills...

A man who escaped twice from Bedford County authorities last year had six years added consecutively to sentences he is already serving. Andrew Phillip Marshall, 19, received the sentence Thursday from Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell. Marshall had walked away from a workhouse trash crew last July and was recaptured two days later, when he was only 30 days away from completing his sentence...

Fourth District U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais was sworn in Thursday as a member of the 113th Congress by House Speaker John Boehner. Boehner conducted the ceremonial swearing-in for Rep. DesJarlais and his family following the official oath of office on the floor of the United States House of Representatives...

Medication and $91 was stolen from a vehicle outside a Barksdale Lane apartment Tuesday night while the driver went inside for a moment, police were told. She told police the items were taken from her purse by two men who asked for a ride. The men, and the missing items, were gone when she returned to her car...

The academic achievements of undergraduate students at the University of Tennessee at Martin have been honored with the Fall 2012 Chancellor's Honor Rolls for the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, College of Business and Global Affairs, College of Education, Health, and Behavioral Sciences, College of Engineering and Natural Sciences and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts...

The Shelbyville Woman's Club will meet Wednesday, Jan. 9 at the Riverbend Country Club. Club representative June Savage said there was a delay in getting this month's reservations out, and anyone wishing to attend January's gathering needs to call and make reservations by Sunday, Jan. 6 by 8 p.m...

Carol Hathaway Osborne, 82, of Ft. Myers, Fla., formerly of Shelbyville, died Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 at Health Park Hospital in Ft. Myers after a short illness. A celebration of life service will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday in the chapel of Calusa Harbor in Ft. Myers.

First of two parts Although the end of 2012 was just last week, the staff of the T-G thought it prudent to revisit some of the top news headlines in the sports world from the last year. This list was compiled of local and statewide headlines that made the airwaves and headlines throughout 2012...