Stories from Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Teresa Lynn West, 59, of Lewisburg died Monday, Jan. 22, 2018 at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville following a long battle with leukemia. Funeral services 11 A.M. Friday at Shiloh United Methodist Church in Wheel. Burial in Wheel Cemetery. Visitation 4-7 p.m. Thursday at Bills-McGaugh & Hamilton Funeral Home, Lewisburg.

May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill. -- Ronald Reagan The 2018 Legislative Session got underway in Nashville on January 9th at noon. This is the second year of the 110th legislative session and it should be very short. Everyone wants it to end quickly so they can get out and get into the campaigning mode. All 99 House seats are up for re-election and half the Senate seats...

UNIONVILLE — The Community Vikings overcame a foul-plagued game with a balanced scoring attack and defeated the Huntland Hornets 77-62 in a non-district basketball contest Saturday night. The Vikings were whistled for 27 fouls and had seven players with two fouls by halftime, but mixed and matched their lineup to score over 20 points in each of the last three quarters...

UNIONVILLE — It was just what the doctor ordered. After a district loss to Forrest the night before, the Community Viqueens were clicking on all cylinders as the Viqueens defeated the Huntland Lady Hornets 70-40 in a non-district game Saturday night...

BELL BUCKLE — It was a take care of business kind of afternoon for the Webb School on Saturday against visiting PCA. Webb notched 24 points in the first quarter and coasted to a 73-39 blowout win. The usual cast of suspecst helped spur the Feet on to the 34-point win...

A night after picking up their second win in-a-row for the first time this season, the Cascade Champions’ offense went cold in a 41-37 loss to visiting Tullahoma on Saturday. Early on, the game appeared to play into the Champions’ hands, with Cascade holding Tullahoma to just eight points in the opening frame...

The State of Tennessee announced a new opioid abuse plan Monday that focuses on prevention, treatment and law enforcement. TN Together is a collaboration between Gov. Bill Haslam and the General Assembly, according to a press release from the state...

Gas prices are having the most expensive start to the year since 2014, AAA - The Auto Club Group reported Sunday. So far this year, Tennessee gas prices climbed an average of 9 cents, the club reports. Last week, the state average rose 2 cents. Sunday's state average of $2.36 is 14 cents more than a month ago, and 25 cents more than this time last year...

A total of 843 early votes were cast in Bedford County for the party primaries leading up to the special election in the 14th District State Senate race, according to Bedford County administrator of elections Summer Leverette. That number, from Monday morning, doesn’t include any by-mail absentee votes which might come in this week. ...

Shelbyville Housing Authority Board of Commissioners recently celebrated the graduation of Ronald Tillman, Deputy Director, from the Executive Director Education Program sponsored by PHADA (Public Housing Authorities Directors Association) and in partnership with Rutgers University...

Two runaways from a Nashville youth detention center are suspected of breaking into two Shelbyville churches Friday, police said. One of the runaways is from the Shelbyville area, police said. A family member told police they overheard the teens talking about the breakins, which officers were unaware of until that point...

As the temperature climbed above freezing last weekend people started getting outdoors. Two women and their canine companion walk in a field along the Duck River at the Normandy Fish Hatchery. (T-G Photo by Terence Corrigan)

The Tennessee College of Applied Technology-Shelbyville has announced its commitment to Data Privacy Day -- an international effort held annually on Sunday to create awareness about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust -- by signing up as a Data Privacy Day 2018 Champion. As a champion, the TCAT Shelbyville recognizes and supports the principle that all organizations share the responsibility of being conscientious stewards of personal information...

The parents of a woman celebrating her 18th birthday and 15 people at her party -- nine underage -- were arrested early Sunday after, in their words, "things got out of control with too many people." Bedford County deputies were notified of a noisy party at a Maxwell Chapel Road home at 12:58 a.m. Sunday, deputy Justin Gaines said in a report...

The Wheel FCE Club met Jan. 11 with lunch at a church. There was only five members present. After lunch the meeting was called to order by President Jerry Sue Boyce. Jeanette Fuller read "A Fresh New Year." Boyce read a devotion titled "What Prayer Can Do."...