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Several years ago, firefighter Darrell Girdley pulled up to the house on a "difficulty breathing" call, and a woman handed him a baby that was purple from suffocating.

"We turned it upside down and inside out but we got that baby breathing," Girdley said.

Another time he and his friend, Mike Hope, stabilized a woman who had driven through a board fence that smashed into the car peeling back her face and putting a fist-sized hole in her chest. Doctors said the firefighters saved the woman's life, and every Christmas she sends flowers and candy.

After nine-and-a-half years serving the city of Shelbyville as a member of city council, Mike Miller has resigned.

"When you move out of the city, you have to give your resignation," he said.

For the past several months he has been building a new home on his family's farm just barely outside the city limits.

"We're not a half mile from the city limits," he said. "My grandfather bought this farm in the 50s, then my uncle had it until he died. And I told my aunt if she ever wanted to sell this last tract to call me, and she did about two years ago."

A former Shelby County school bus driver is suing the school system for wrongful termination.

Karen Butts of Bagdad, filed suit against the Shelby County Public School system on April 30 - almost a year after her contract was not renewed.

According to the suit, Butts' termination came after her bus was involved in a one-vehicle accident in February of last year.

In the complaint, Butts defends her driving record and her response to the accident.

The winds blew strong on the ridge above the Ferenc Vegh house and barn on Hempridge Road. That makes the hill a good place for grapes.

"We'll see frost down in the valley but not very often up here on the hill," Vegh said at a ceremony Wednesday inaugurating a vineyard he plans to establish on his south Shelby County farm.