Stories from Tuesday, November 22, 2016

LUNGI, Sierra Leone -- LEAMIS International Ministries has evolved over the years; I first connected with the organization by going on team mission trips, which the organization really doesn't do anymore. Now, it mostly places individual missionaries for short term assignments of a few weeks or months....

It was a tale of two halves as the Cascade Middle Lady Champions came back from a 13-point halftime deficit to defeat the Community Viqueens 37-36 in a DRVC intra-county basketball game Monday night. The Viqueens led for most of the game, but it was a late rally that put the Lady Champions over the top...

The Cascade Middle Champions led by 11 in the fourth quarter, then withstood a furious Community Viking rally to win 33-30 in a DRVC basketball matchup Monday night. Neither team could gain a huge advantage in the first half, with four points being the biggest margin separating the teams...

TULLAHOMA -- The Community Viqueens rebounded from an opening game loss with a 58-41 victory over the Franklin County Rebelettes Saturday. The Viqueens got off to a good start, outscoring the Rebelettes 10-4 in the first quarter. With four players picking up two fouls by the end of the second quarter, the Community substitutes picked up the slack. A. K. Lemmons and Logan Brothers combined for 10 points off the bench to lead the Viqueens to a 27-19 halftime advantage...

TULLAHOMA -- The Community Vikings dropped two Hall of Champions games to AAA teams Saturday. The Vikings got off to a rough start against the Franklin County Rebels, scoring only one point in the first quarter. The Rebels extended their lead to 31-8 at halftime...

Liberty's Lady Patriots made up for an earlier loss with a 20-12 victory over Middle Tennessee Christian School on the road Monday evening. The Lady Patriots fell 31-26 to MTCS earlier in the season. Mary Alice Shavers scored six points while Kelsey Hardin and Shelby Moore added four points each...

High-tech adventurers have a new option for playing hide-and-seek -- and the trail could lead them to Bedford County. The South Central Tennessee Tourism Association launched a new geocache trail, or geotour, on Friday: The South Central Tennessee GeoTour. Coordinator Brad Simmons, of Bell Buckle, estimated that hundreds of people have already used the geotour since Friday...

Investment firm KKR announced overnight that it will buy all existing shares of Japanese automotive components maker Calsonic Kansei Corp., parent company of Calsonic Kansei North America. That includes buying the 41 percent of Calsonic owned by Nissan Motor Co. Ltd...

A woman angry about being arrested, among other things, knocked two officers to the ground and kicked the door handle mechanism off a patrol car Saturday, police said. Cynthia Elaine Mayer, 34, of Earnhart Street tripped at one point while being escorted to the car, taking officers Jerry Lawrence and Chris Vest down with her shortly after hitting Vest in the chest. She hit Vest in the chin with a foot moments later, the report said...

An investigation by special agents with the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has resulted in the indictment and arrest of a Moore County pharmacist on a charge of theft. TBI special agents and agents with the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, along with the Moore County Sheriff's Office, began investigating Robert Gray in January 2015. Gray, a pharmacist, owns Lynchburg Drug Store...

Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration CEO Mike Inman spoke to the Shelbyville Lions Club recently about the horse show. Pictured (from left) are Bill Dearing, Inman and Bailey Little. (Submitted photo)

Leadership Bedford takes part in Government Day recently at the Shelbyville-Bedford County Chamber of Commerce. (Submitted photos)