Shelbyville News

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. -- Bedford County authorities said a man is charged with attempting to burn a house he had rented to others and wanted them to go "back up North." Officials said 62-year-old Marion Aubrey Whitaker set fire to a house rented by his niece and her family.

The Times-Gazette and six area bp gas locations will give three winners a share of $500 in gasoline for their summer travels as part of the "Big $500 Gas Up for Summer Give-Away." On July 24, the Times-Gazette will publish a special section in which a secret number of logos will be hidden throughout advertising messages.

Two traffic accidents left drivers injured Saturday night and early Sunday, investigators said.

A member of Shelbyville's planning commission wants to table design guidelines for two years, claiming that the recommendations would make builders think twice about doing business here.

The Fourth of July brings certain things every year, such as fireworks, picnics, ants, games, fun -- and increased law enforcement.

Fifty years after signing an agreement with the city, the Shelbyville Housing Authority wants to give back property which contains Shelbyville's underground flume system.

Devon Ward only has one regret about being 2008's Miss Bedford County, crowned at last year's Fairest of the Fair pageant.

State Representative Curt Cobb announced Wednesday his acceptance of a judicial position in Bedford County that Republican and Democratic leaders say will lead to a contest for his House seat within the next 150 days.

The summer dry season has arrived right on schedule, and with it comes the usual round of grass and hay fires.

This Phillips 66 station, at Lewis Avenue and South Cannon Boulevard, kept motorists moving in the 1960s.

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"A local couple arrested on domestic assault charges Sunday had an unusual choice of alleged weaponry -- Cheetos.

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. -- The mayor of Moore County died in a single-car accident on Thursday afternoon.

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. - Authorities in Shelbyville say a couple got into a fight using orange puffy snacks.

Shelbyville police arrested a local couple Tuesday that authorities said were stealing thousands of dollars worth of weight loss and make-up items from the shelves of area Wal-Marts and selling them on the Internet.

A wave of counterfeit $20 bills has hit Shelbyville businesses, city police said Monday.

Highway construction projects will be in full swing this summer in Tennessee. The Tennessee Department of Transportation awarded a record number of contracts last month, many of which were funded with federal stimulus tax dollars.

"Heather went above and beyond the call of duty with Jake," his mother, Michelle Bayne, said.

Shelbyville's planning commission will look over several rezoning requests when it meets next Thursday, including one in a historic district that may provoke discussion.

A consultant from the University of Tennessee's County Technical Assistance Service told Bedford County commission members on Tuesday that moving prisoners into the old Bedford County Medical Center building on Union Street would not be the financial boon that had been informally projected last month.