Stories from Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Laura Nichole Riggins McConnell, 32, of Douglasville, Georgia, formerly of Shelbyville and wife of Robert Henry McConnell III, died Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015. A private viewing will be held followed by cremation services at Roy Davis Funeral home in Austell, Georgia.

State Senate Transportation Committee chair Jim Tracy of Shelbyville on Monday called for repayment of $280 million which he said was "raided" from the state's highway fund from 2001 to 2007 and used for other state expenses. Tracy said he would submit an appropriations amendment to the state budget upon the legislature's return in January calling for the full repayment of the funds over the next two years...

Shelbyville & Bedford County Chamber of Commerce is partnering with the Celebration to sponsor the second annual Celebration Shootout golf tournament Aug. 30 at Riverbend Country Club. This is the second year for the tournament but the first year for the Chamber to be involved...

A former Times-Gazette editor and an author of a book on Tennessee walking horses are among nine print and broadcast journalists being posthumously inducted into the Tennessee Journalism Hall of Fame today in Murfreesboro. Kent Flanagan edited the T-G from 2009-2011 before being named executive director of the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government, a nonprofit alliance of media, citizen and professional groups he helped form in 2003. He died in February of this year after a long illness...

For the second time in two weeks, Shelbyville police have been called to an Eagle Boulevard residential home due to a caregiver becoming incapacitated. A resident called 911 late Saturday morning after the woman, who has not been charged, became "ill in a way they were concerned," officer Bruce Davis said in his report...

CHAPEL HILL -- The Cascade Champions struck first, but couldn't overcome a tough third-quarter in Monday's make up season opener at Forrest Middle School and suffered a tough 37-28 loss. Champion quarterback Blaze Bryson struck first for the Champs on a nine-yard TD pass to Hunter Jewell for an early 6-0 lead...

ROCKVALE -- The Community Viking golf team got off to a strong start on Monday afternoon in the season opener at Champion's Run. In the dual-team meet against Eagleville, the Vikings were able to slip past the Eagles and pick up the season's first win, besting the home team by two strokes, 188-190...