Stories from Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Robbie Davis serves as the head coach of the Community High basketball and baseball teams. He was interviewed by the Times-Gazette to reflect on his career. TG: Where did you go to school? DAVIS: I went to elementary school at Liberty and high school at Shelbyville Central from 1989-93. ...

Six suspects face drug and weapons charges after being arrested Wednesday at a Butler Street home by the 17th Judicial District Drug Task Force. Shana Deanne Bryan, 31, Alta Avenue; Matthew Steven Cagle, 36, U.S. 41A; Erika Amber Navarro, 30, Halls Mill Road; Jeffrey Allen Stokes, 30, Scales Road; Markel Marquis Thomas, 27, Butler Avenue; and Jamal Washington, 33, Tyne Road. ...

On May 30, Big G Express will hold its fifth annual Big G Motorcycle Ride benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This fundraiser will help St. Jude continue to lead the way in how the world understands, treats, and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases...

Wartrace has burned through four fire chiefs in a year but, according to the firefighters, the current interim chief, Mike De Jesus, is a keeper. Ike Eichelberger, who serves on the Wartrace Fire Department, said, since De Jesus took over things have started to change and the public’s opinion of the department is improving. “Hopefully we can change the perception that (Wartrace Fire) is a laughing stock, that we’re a joke,” he said...

Some people may believe students don’t learn a thing anymore in school regarding Memorial Day. That’s at least not the case in the adventuresome class of Harris Middle School ancient history teacher Phillip McConnell. We asked the educator this question: What would you like to impress most upon your students about Memorial Day? Here’s what the sixth grade educator had to say:...

Normandy town officials have been after Rusty Murphy to clean up his property for a long time. The yard of the home he rents on Division Street is littered with all manner of refuse: old, tattered blue plastic tarps, broken bicycles, unidentifiable pieces of moulded plastic, coolers, plastic buckets, scrap metal, kitchen chairs, rugs draped over a fence, a card table, wooden pallets and automobile wheels and tires...

Bryan Nerren has returned home to his favorite recliner after seven months in forced quarantine in India. This was a government-involved situation due to his Christianity, he said Thursday, not because of COVID-19. A little thinner, the exhausted International House of Prayer pastor advised, “There’s no place like home.”...

Kayla Marie Prince 2020 Graduate from Cascade High School. She will be attending a 4 year university majoring in Agricultural Science.