Stories from Thursday, August 8, 2019

Smokestack Theatre Group at Community High School will present Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" 7 p.m. Aug. 9 and 10 with a 2 p.m. matinee on Aug. 11 at the high school. Admission is $5 at the door. The play concerns two partners in a company which made defective aircraft parts, resulting in the deaths of World War II pilots. ...

A Honda Accord left unlocked with keys inside at La Hacienda, North Main Street, was stolen shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday, Shelbyville police were told. The theft occurred around the same time two vehicles were burglarized at the Mane Street Center complex and Shelbyville Recreation Center...

Two suspects have been charged with stealing four laptop computers from a Shelbyville school, police said Thursday, and one of them is also charged with taking a four-wheeler from an athletic complex. Husband and wife Anthony Jason Merlo, 48, and Jamie Elizabeth Merlo, 39, were arrested Wednesday, Detective Sgt. Sam Jacobs said. The couple allegedly hid the computers in backpacks while visiting their child, who is being cared for by another person, in the school’s library July 14 and July 28...

Former county mayor Eugene Ray, who won state acclaim for strengthening the county’s financial management and worked to bring the county more options for higher education, died Wednesday at age 82. Ray left office at the end of August 2018 after 12 years as Bedford County’s first African-American county mayor and 28 years before that as a county commissioner. He chaired the county commission for years as a commissioner and continued to chair it as mayor....

A year ago, the Cascade Lady Champions won a District 6-A title and forged the best season in school history. Had it not been pairing up against the toughest competition in the state in the region and sectional rounds of the postseason, Cascade could very well have pushed even farther into the state tournament...

Maki Fleming ran for 143 yards and a pair of scores in Thursday night's opener and led the Community Middle Vikings to a 16-0 win at Cascade. Neither offense had particularly effective nights against the opposing defense—save two touchdown runs by Fleming in the second quarter...

In a dual-team match on Thursday afternoon at River Bend, the Cascade Champions knocked off cross-county rival Community, 172-246. Evan Woosley-Reed was the match medalist and shot a round-low of 32. Garrett Rucker also broke into the 30s and finished his afternoon with a 36...