Stories from Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Thomas Magnet has become the second Bedford County school to win the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program award. U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan made the announcement this morning in a national press conference. Cascade Elementary School received the blue ribbon award last year...

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Roy Herron, a former state senator, will be the speaker for Bedford County Democratic Party's annual fall banquet, to be held Thursday, Oct. 10 at Bell Buckle Banquet Hall. There will be music and a social hour at 6 p.m. with dinner to be served at 6:30 p.m...

The annual Firehouse Barbecue, sponsored by Shelbyville-Bedford County Chamber of Commerce, was held Monday at the Tennessee Fire and Codes Academy. The event raises funds to provide smoke detectors for the needy. Tyler Anderton and Sue and Rick Reed help themselves to the fixings for their meals. See more photos at http://www.t-g.com/gallery/16937 (T-G Photo by Jason Reynolds)

WINCHESTER -- It was a big day for Shelbyville Central's Golden Eagle golf team as they advanced to the region tournament for the first time since 2005. The Eagles finished third in the District 8-AAA Tournament with a team score of 321 behind champions Coffee County (300) and Lawrence County (320) on Monday at Bear Trace Golf Course at Tims Ford State Park...

BURNS -- For the past two seasons, the Cascade Champion golf team has made it to the TSSAA state tournament, held at WillowBrook Golf Club in Manchester. While the entire team didn't qualify this year, Cascade still had two players place well enough at Monday's Region 6-A/AA match, held at Montgomery Bell...

Money was at the root of an argument that left one man dead and his alleged attacker charged with murder, investigators say. The body of Jonathan Cody Minnick, 23, of Vandy Avenue was found by a roommate at 1:49 p.m. Saturday, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said....

A Shelbyville man has been charged with aggravated assault after allegedly threatening a family member and a neighbor at a Regent Drive home. David Phillip Mullins Jr., 43, whose address is listed as the Regent Drive home, pointed a fixed-blade knife at the neighbor who tried to intervene and claimed, "I'm gonna stick you," then swung a baseball bat at him, striking a door facing instead...

The Goodwill Career Solutions center in Shelbyville placed 45 people in jobs in August, and is hoping to raise that figure with another event Thursday. Aid & Assist at Home, LLC is seeking to fill multiple caregiver positions in Bedford, Coffee, Lincoln, Marshall, and Moore counties. Applications will be accepted from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Shelbyville Career Solutions, 108 Lane Parkway...

Drivers of both cars were hurt at mid-morning Saturday on Horse Mountain Road between Shelbyville and Wartrace. Pamela Henry of Manchester, driver of the Mustang, told State Trooper Barry Qualls she was adjusting the car's radio and drove across the center line into the path of the BMW driven by Robert Hodge of Wartrace. (T-G Photo by David Melson)