Stories from Friday, May 2, 2014

By Karen Hall and Jessica Moore Staff Writers Starting after lunch Tuesday, the prosecution began building the case against Heather Rogers McCollum, 24, who is charged with the first-degree premeditated murder of John Poteete on Aug. 14, 2012, and with arson, allegedly to cover up the crime...

By Jessica Moore Staff Writer Price McNaughton, author of the mystery novels "Murder is Ugly" and "A Vision of Murder," met with the Book Club at the Senior Center Wednesday morning. The young author has been a lifelong lover of literature. Writing is something she had dabbled in nearly her whole life, but what really pushed her into completing her first novel was an unfortunate accident with a horse. ...

By Karen Hall Editor When commissioners on the county's Employee Benefits committee resumed their meeting Tuesday, they knew they had to choose an insurance broker for the county, or at least shorten the list, and the meeting ended with the decision to continue with Brown & Brown, the current broker...

Nancy Kay London, 51, of Lewisburg, died Sunday, April 27, 2014, in Maury Regional Medical Center. Mrs. London was a native of Marshall County, and daughter of the late James Wilburn and Carrell Griffin Farler of Belfast, who survives. She attended school in Marshall and Williamson counties. Nancy worked for 20 years at Heil-Quaker/Inter-City Corporation...

The Cornersville Lady Bulldogs captured the third seed in the District 11-A tournament by defeating Mt. Pleasant 6-1 on Wednesday afternoon at home to earn a split of the season series with the Lady Tigers. After losing to Mt. Pleasant 4-2 in their previous encounter on March 27, Cornersville (15-10, 5-5 District) needed to beat the Lady Tigers (7-13, 5-5 District) by three or more runs in Wednesday's contest in order to win the tie breaker between the two teams, but held just a 2-1 lead through the first four innings of play.

The Forrest Lady Rockets finished the regular season in style, celebrating Senior Night with a 10-1 win over Eagleville at the Field of Dreams in Chapel Hill Wednesday night. "I am pleased our seniors got to play and we finished up our district games," said Forrest head coach Becky Cheatham. "We did OK once we got rolling with the bats, Ricky (Stinnett) had to get a little short fused there, but we got rolling and got the job done and I hope we can build on that tomorrow."

After making a solid showing at the Franklin/Sonic Tournament this past weekend, the Marshall County Tigerettes continued to build momentum for the upcoming District 12-AA tournament by going on the road and defeating second place Spring Hill 6-5 in eight innings on Wednesday night to earn a split in the season series with the Lady Raiders.

The FMS Rockets continued their dominance of the Duck River Valley Conference Tournament winning their fifth title in the last six years and this time they did it with high drama, sweeping top-seeded Fayetteville 3-2 and 12-1 at Liberty Middle School. "I have to give the boys all the credit in the world, they fought the entire tournament," said FMS head coach Bart Joyce. "They just never gave up and ended winning in a big way the last two games."