Stories from Friday, June 28, 2013

Denzil Norman Helton, 76, of Shelbyville died Friday, June 28, 2013 after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Bill Doak officiating. Burial will follow at Hurricane Cemetery in Moore County. Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m. Saturday.

Denise Milnar, 48, of Bell Buckle died Thursday, June 27, 2013. A memorial service will be held at 6 p.m. Monday at Murfreesboro Funeral Home. Visitation will begin at 4 p.m.

Bedford County's property tax rate remains unchanged at $2.27 per $100 assessed value for the fiscal year that starts July 1. The Bedford County Commission voted to keep the tax rate unchanged during a special called meeting Thursday evening. Commissioners performed routine year-end business, such as making amendments to the 2012-2013 budget and to approve the tax rate and the 2013-2014 budgets. ...

For the past several weeks, the Shelbyville Tennis Association has hosted a beginners clinic for members of the community wanting to learn the basics of the game. STA members Doyle Hutton, David Beavers and Donna Stearns-Smith orchestrated the clinic every Thursday, showing the youngsters proper serving form and several drills to help their game...

Polly Frazier takes a stroll alongside a long row of daylilies in her garden at her residence on Lewisburg Highway. (T-G Photo by Jim Davis)

I just don't get it! How can a talented young athlete worth millions of dollars playing the game he's loved since a child be so stupid? Aaron Hernandez was living the dream, a standout football player on one of the best teams and organizations in the National Football League, the New England Patriots...

Jack Daniel and George Dickel could get some local competition, thanks to a new state law going into effect next week. A resolution will be presented to Shelbyville's city council next Tuesday that would permit microdistilleries to operate within the city...

Neighboring communities are starting to tackle the problem of meth by requiring a prescription for certain types of cold medications. But that idea hasn't been discussed by the Shelbyville city council -- at least, not yet. Winchester and Estill Springs have recently passed ordinances restricting the sale of pseudoephedrine -- the key ingredient in making methamphetamine, to prescription only. ...

The county's jobless rate jumped half a percentage point in May to 8.6 percent, according to preliminary data released by Tennessee's department of labor and workforce development. An estimated 1,970 people were without a job in Bedford County in May, and out of a labor force of 22,990, an estimated 21,030 were employed. The rate of 8.6 percent unemployment for the county is the same figure reported at this time last year. The revised rate for April 2013 for the county was 8.1 percent...

The battle of Iwo Jima and the iconic image of the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi are indelibly etched in the hearts and minds of Americans as symbols of our hard-fought battles in World War II that changed the history of world and secured our nation's freedom...

NASHVILLE (AP) -- A former employee of Tyson Foods in Shelbyville left for Egypt with his two children a week after his wife was found alongside a Kentucky interstate, investigators say. Metro Nashville Police said the body of Madiha Roshdy, 27, of Nashville was found on May 29 by a highway mowing crew along the northbound lanes of Interstate 65 near Elizabethtown, Ky. She had suffered blunt force trauma to the head. There was no identification on or around the body...

A Cunningham Lane family will be having a little less fun on their vacation after computer games and a handheld console were stolen from their home during the day Wednesday. The games and console had been placed in a backpack-style bag in preparation for the trip, police were told. The family's Xbox was also taken from the living room, police said...

Arnold Community Council and State Sen. Janice Bowling are hosting a free, regional job fair July 16 at the Manchester-Coffee County Conference Center, 147 Hospitality Blvd. in Manchester. From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the state of Tennessee's career coach will assist unemployed or under-employed individuals. The state provides computers so job seekers can update or create resumes on-site...

Five-time Grammy award winning gospel musician Russ Taff is participating in the 11th annual Edgemont Baptist Church musical. Taff will be performing his hit song "We Will Stand," which is the title song of this year's musical. "It's a big honor for him to take his time to come sing our title song," said Jeffrey McGee, the music minister at Edgemont. "We are very excited for our chorus to get to sing with him."...