Stories from Thursday, September 6, 2018

Randolph Everette Lee, 77, of Wartrace died Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at Tennova Healthcare-Shelbyville. Graveside services Friday at Mt. Herman Cemetery in Flat Creek with Brother Sanders officiating. Arrangements: Gowen-Smith Chapel.

After playing just two games, Coach Chris Grooms and the Community Viking football team were looking for a fresh start to the season. The bye on the schedule in week three may have given the Vikings the break they needed to recharge the batteries as Community gets ready to embark on its final eight regular season games Friday night against Richland...

Wallace Cartwright is unopposed for re-election as mayor of Shelbyville in the Nov. 6 general election, and Charles B. Whitaker is unopposed to succeed Rachel Swift -- who is moving outside city limits and cannot seek re-election -- as mayor of Normandy...

A little "dab" caused large problems for a DUI suspect arrested Tuesday near Wartrace. Wartrace Police Chief Danny Odeneal found William Ross Prater, 25, of Woodbury asleep behind the wheel of his vehicle on Cannon Road. Prater was described as "unsteady and wobbly on his feet" by Deputy Clyde Boyce...

Ayelen Lopez-Peniche, an East Side School fourth grader, listens attentively as librarian Katie Myers gives a dramatic reading from the next chapter of their study book, “The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963” by Christopher Paul Curtis. Though fiction, the book covers the author’s experiences in the 1960s. The fourth and fifth graders hung on to every word. (T-G Photos by Dawn Hankins)

A woman who allegedly shot a window out of a neighbor's truck Tuesday was arrested on several charges. Investigators said Terry Ann McFarlin, 57, allegedly pointed the gun at a relative before firing at the truck on U.S. 231 just south of Shelbyville...

The play "The Crucible," by Arthur Miller, will be presented Sept. 7-8 and 14-16 at The Fly Arts Center on South Main Street. At the time the drama was written, its story about the Salem Witch Trials was seen as a metaphor for McCarthyism, but it has become a timeless classic with a message about persecution and intolerance in any age...

Former governor and current U.S. Senate candidate Phil Bredesen visited Bedford County on Saturday, joining sportsmen near Unionville for the first day of dove hunting season and dining at Bell Buckle Cafe, where he’s seen speaking to beloved local resident Dorothy Elkins. (Submitted photos)

Deborah Kay King Torres, 57, of Shelbyville died Tuesday. Funeral services 11 a.m. Saturday at Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home in Tullahoma. Burial in Cothran Cemetery. Visitation begins at 10 a.m.