Stories from Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Dorothy Irene Prater Johns, 95, of Shelbyville died Tuesday, Feb, 2, 2016 at Life Care Center of Tullahoma. A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Hazel Cemetery in Bell Buckle with Mark Pierce officiating. Doak-Howell Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

Billy Jack Arnett, 70, of Morganton, N.C. died Monday, Feb. 1, 2016. Funeral services will be held at noon Thursday at Sossoman Funeral Home and Crematory Center in Morganton with the Rev. Charlie Crump officiating. Burial will follow at Forest Hill Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m.

Sue Hasty, who works in the front office at Eakin Elementary School, enrolled a set of twins, Daniel and Danielle Ross, right before Christmas. Then, right after Christmas, she enrolled Keaire and Kaelyn Kinzer, also twins. She knew there were already a few other sets of twins at Eakin, so she figured that Keaire and Kaelyn probably made about six or seven sets. She sent an e-mail out asking...

"Give me the phones, money and drugs. Do you want to die? Give it to me," an armed man who broke into a Bell Buckle home early Saturday told a woman and her mother. The suspect and another man forced their way into a Hannah Street home and took two cell phones about 3:30 a.m., the Bedford County Sheriff's Office said...

Fire destroyed a home on Pickle Road at mid-evening Saturday. The residence owned by Jerry Nichols broke into flames shortly after 8 p.m., the Bedford County Fire Department said. No one was at home at the time. Seven fire trucks with firefighters from BCSD's main Shelbyville station, Flat Creek, Wheel and Unionville responded. Their efforts were hampered by a lack of fire hydrants in the area, with trucks forced to drive to Liberty School for water...

MANCHESTER -- It was a dominating performance as top seed Harris Middle School's Golden Eagles claimed a 47-25 victory over Tullahoma West in the Central Tennessee Conference Tournament championship game on Saturday night at Coffee County Middle School...

A night after falling to District 12-AA leader CPA, the Cascade Champions got a bounce back win against a surging Eagleville team that entered Saturday night's contest having won four of their last five games. While junior Seth Gardner scored a game-high 29 points, it was fellow junior Hayden Edmondson's efforts in the clutch that sealed the 70-66 win for the Champions...

The Cascade Lady Champions played well in spurts, but couldn't string together a full four quarters against Eagleville on Saturday night as part of the "Coaches vs. Cancer" night. The night benefits the Cascade Cafeteria Scholarship, which will go to a Cascade student either directly affected by cancer or to a student going into the medical field...

Harris Middle School's basketball season came to an end after the Eaglettes and Eagles fell in the TMSAA Area/Sectional Tournament at home on Monday evening. The Eaglettes fell in overtime to Oakland 25-23 before the Eagles dropped a 63-29 loss to Rockvale...

The Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga has released an official forecast, in verse, on behalf of "Chattanooga Chuck," its groundhog. Groundhog Day is here again. What a crazy weather year it's been! We saw springtime temps on New Year's Day. But since then snow's come through our way...

Luanne Neeley received the Good Citizen Award from the Shelbyville-Bedford County Chamber of Commerce Beautification Committee on Jan. 26. Also pictured are committee chairwoman Lynn Hulan and Chamber CEO Allen Pitner. (T-G Photo by Jason Reynolds)

An attempt to buy a cell phone advertised on Craigslist led to three people being arrested on drug charges Sunday night. Officers smelled, and found, marijuana in an apartment on Anthony Lane while attempting to find a man who allegedly took money but failed to deliver the phone...

Jade, daughter of Edwin and Cherie Harris, on her Granny's computer.