Stories from Thursday, November 6, 2014

Motorcycles, auctions and music Saturday will provide for a fun time while also helping veterans and currently enlisted service members. On Saturday, Bell Buckle will host the annual Veterans Day Weekend Motorcycle Rally and celebration. This year will mark a high point for the event, coordinator Martha Akers said...

Margaret Geraldine Reed Porter Johnson Meacham, 84, of Wartrace, died Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Buck Frazier and Jason Porter officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 3-7 p.m. Saturday.

Herbert Blackman "Herb" Sparks Jr., 55, of Mountain Brook, Ala., a former Normandy resident, died unexpectedly at his home Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, Ala., with visitation beginning at 10 a.m. A graveside service and burial will follow at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Shoffner's Lutheran Chapel cemetery. Kilgroe Funeral Home of Leeds, Ala., is handling arrangements.

Workers drill a hole for a traffic light/utility pole at the intersection of North Main and Madison Streets. (T-G Photos by Jim Davis)

Now that Shelbyville voters have approved the sale of wine in grocery stores, what's the next step? First, the city will receive the official report from the county election commission, according to city manager Jay Johnson. Currently, the city's staff is looking to the Tennessee Municipal League and the University of Tennessee Municipal Technical Advisory service for guidance...

Helpfulness to others was the hallmark of the eight inductees making up the second class of the Bedford County Hall of Fame inducted last Saturday night. Glenn "Bo" Melson, County Mayor Eugene Ray, Sylvia Pinson, Samuel Abernathy, Roy Campbell, Henry Cooley, Claude Freeman and Whit Taylor received trophies, plaques and words of praise at the event, sponsored by Wayne Buckingham's W.A.B. Sports...

The Cascade Champions could be the most unlikely and improbable team to earn a berth in the TSSAA Class 3A state playoffs. Finishing the regular season with a 4-6 overall record, it might be simple to dismiss the Champions on that record alone. But on closer inspection, the Champions have faced one of the most brutal and grueling schedules of anyone in the state, with nine opponents in the regular season qualifying for postseason berths...

A Bedford County man who stole a valuable coin collection will see no change in his prison sentence, according to a criminal court appeal. Roy Anthony Haley says the 15-year sentence he received was excessive for charges of theft of property valued at $10,000 or more but less than $60,000...

A 9-year-girl's 911 call rescued her mother in a domestic incident Tuesday morning. The mother's boyfriend, Adam Wayne Faulk, 26, of Edgemont Drive allegedly entered her Fairground Heights home intoxicated and carrying a fifth of whiskey at 5 a.m., police said...