Stories from Tuesday, May 21, 2019

During this weekend’s Spring Fun Show, Miss Jane & Co. in Bell Buckle is featuring horse decor and Billie Nipper prints. (Submitted photo)

A suspect in a vehicle theft at a North Jefferson Street wrecker service was arrested Saturday morning, Shelbyville police said. Jeffrey Brandon Utz, 27, of Petersburg allegedly drove a 2006 Nissan Sentra through and over a fence after taking a CD player and key fob from two other vehicles at Mike’s Towing and Recovery. Video surveillance showed Utz committing the acts around 4 to 5 a.m., police were told...

The state veterinarian's office is investigating an outbreak of Equine Piroplasmosis (EP) in a group of racing Quarter Horses in Middle Tennessee. Twenty-two horses have tested positive for EP in five locations within Bedford, Rutherford, and Williamson Counties. The horses are all under quarantine and being treated...

A grand celebration was held at Cascade Elementary last week when it was announced that students read over 36,000 books this school year through the Accelerated Reading program. Amidst the confetti, signs read: “Readers are Leaders!” This is the newest slogan for the reading program...

Perhaps country music star Tracy Lawrence said it best, “The only thing that stays the same is everything changes.” So true is the climate of newspapers and the Times-Gazette is no exception. Beginning in today’s edition of the T-G, production will now be moved to nights and the paper will be published three times a week...

It is called the Celebration Spring Fun Show, but don't be fooled by the name. For trainers and riders, this is a major litmus test of what might happen in August at the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration. It is serious competition in every class...

Robert Walker Carter, 58, of Shelbyville died Wednesday, April 24, 2019. A Celebration of Life will be held at 5 P.M. Saturday, May 25th at his stables on his All Seasons Farm in Shelbyville. Food and beverages will be served after a short memorial service. Arrangements: Feldhaus Memorial Chapel.

Bedford County Courthouse was briefly evacuated this (Tuesday) morning after a bomb threat was received on a busy court day. The caller gave no specifics on where the bomb was supposedly located or when it would supposedly detonate, Sheriff Austin Swing said...

MURFREESBORO — Having dropped two earlier meetings to Columbia Academy, the Cascade Lady Champions were determined not to drop a third. While Tuesday night's state opener against the Lady Bulldogs was just the start Cascade wanted, the bats went cold after the first inning and Cascade dropped a 3-2 decision...

Citlally Natalie Palmeros Zuniga is a first generation American graduate from Shelbyville Central High School.