Stories from Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Patricia McCord English, 68, of Shelbyville died Monday, June 8, 2015. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Jeff Smith officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Thursday.

"The next thing I knew I was being struck from behind and flipped upside down," Luis Rojas told Shelbyville police after he and two other people -- one of them a child -- were hit by a vehicle as they walked on Deery Street just north of Madison Street late Sunday night...

The crowd lined up early at First Baptist Church on East Depot Street for the latest Manna Mission, with food donated from Second Harvest Food Bank. But folks were also given an opportunity to better themselves through the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development's mobile Career Coach...

The Hulk didn't make an appearance in Shelbyville over the weekend. But a man who police say "must have thought he had Hulk strength" attempted to break into a Shelbyville sporting goods store early Saturday. An alarm alerted officers to glass breaking at Hibbett Sports, North Main Street, at 5:54 a.m. No glass was broken but a door lock had been obviously tampered with, officer Brock Horner's report said...

A man convicted of a grisly 2004 double murder has lost another appeal in state court. Jason Christopher Underwood was convicted in 2006 for the stabbing deaths of Anthony Justin "Bubba" Baltimore, 19, and Rebecca Lynn "Becky" Ray, 18, on Oct. 24, 2004, at their home on Sims Road...

The nomination period for local Farm Service Agency county committees begins Monday, June 15. "Through the county committees, farmers and ranchers have a voice. Their opinions and ideas get to be heard on federal farm programs," said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. ...