Stories from Sunday, September 2, 2018

Gen A'Mighty, Jimmy McConnell up for Mike Floyd of Columbia, was named Tennessee Walking Horse World Grand Champion Saturday night, closing out the 80th annual Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration. It was McConnell’s fourth World Grand Championship...

A Shelbyville man was seriously wounded Friday night outside his Wesley Street home from gunshots, police said Saturday. Francisco Javier Carrillo was undergoing surgery Saturday at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville for abdominal wounds, Det. Sgt. Charles Merlo said. Carrillo’s condition was unavailable at press time...

A thief who hacked the Facebook account of a Shelbyville pastor’s wife convinced a church member to purchase $700 worth of Amazon gift cards for a so-called “donation,” the Bedford County Sheriff’s Office said. The suspect was “very convincing” in impersonating the woman, according to the victim...

Three fumbles in the first half proved to be costly for Cascade’s Champions in a 34-7 loss to visiting East Robertson’s Indians in a Region 4AA matchup on Friday night at the Stable. Two of the fumbles led to Indian scores. The Champions (0-3, 0-1 4AA) fumbled a snap on the opening play of the game that led to an East Robertson touchdown, a 17-yard pass from Cameron Swift to Taylor Groves. Tyler Ayers hauled in a pass from Swift on the two-point conversion for the 7-0 lead...

The Fly Community Theatre will present Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" Sept. 7-8 and 14-16 at The Fly Arts Center. Show times are 7 p.m. for Friday and Saturday performances, 2 p.m. for the Sunday matinee on Sept. 16. Miller, writing in the early 1950s, used the Salem, Massachusetts witch trials of 1692 and 1693 as an allegory for McCarthyism. ...

Imagine being born into a country where you were denied the right to vote just because you were a woman. That was primarily the situation for most American women prior to August 18, 1920, when Tennessee became the last state that could possibly ratify the 19th Amendment. The 72-year struggle for women to become enfranchised became a reality with Tennessee's action which enshrined their right to vote in all elections in the U.S. Constitution...

Tomorrow is Labor Day. Wow! Where did the summer go? This holiday, which for so many of us signals an unofficial end to summer, was really created and endorsed by the American labor movement and became a United States holiday back in 1894. We should all take a little time and consider the hard work and sacrifices of our predecessors who built America and its towns and cities out of a wilderness...

Back in the 70s, when I was a Bible college student in Southern California, I made a trip to Tijuana, Mexico with a group of classmates. We went to visit an orphanage run by a Mexican minister and his wife. Many of the children that were living in this establishment had been abandoned on the streets of the city or were dropped off at the gates of the compound. Their parents felt like they could no longer care for their children so they just left them...

Caroline Christine Dodd of Nauvoo, Alabama, and Jackson Trevor McAnally of Shelbyville were married in an evening ceremony July 21 at Meadow Creek Farm in Toney, Alabama. Jeff Rasnick of First Baptist Church (Depot Street) and Donny Dodd, father of the bride and pastor of Kelly Mill Church in Nauvoo, Alabama, performed the double-ring ceremony before a large company of guests...

Jenny Troupe of Shelbyville announces the birth of a son, Nathan Kain Troupe, Aug. 7 at Tennova Healthcare-Harton in Tullahoma. He weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces. Grandparents are Gary and Sue Troupe of Shelbyville; great-grandparents are Richard and Freda Oliver of Shelbyville...