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Today's News

  • MY WORD: ‘Miss Bug’ spotlights a final student

    When I visited the Education Center @ Cropper on May 2, I chatted with a junior, Jose Menendez, about the online algebra course he was taking. He switched gears and reminded me that we first met when he was a student at Painted Stone Elementary. He vividly remembered the history lesson I shared about the Painted Stone settlement and even the rock painted red that I brought with me.

    “You’re ‘Miss Bug,’ right?” he asked.

    He was right.

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  • An overpowering storm of fear

    Tell the truth: If you are a parent, you thought twice about sending your child to school on Tuesday morning.

    You looked at the satellite images of the approaching weather system that had laid waste to miles and miles of homes in Oklahoma. You looked at the darkening skies in the west. You thought about families whose children were huddled in a school not built to withstand the right cross from nature’s most fearsome force.

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  • Shelbyville Police Reports May 22, 2013

    Traffic

    Vicente Romero Morales, 34, of 502 Marion Village was arrested May 15 at Mack Walters and Clifton Court and charged with no operator’s license.

     

    Drugs/Public Intoxication

    Anthony  D. Cardwell, 52, of 417 Mack Walters Road was arrested May 14 on Midland Trail and charged with trafficking in marijuana, first offense.

    Robert Allen Walls, 21, of 111 Gray Hawk Drive was arrested May 19 on Thorn Hill Drive and charged with alcohol intoxication in public, first offense.

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  • Monroe gets new court date on manslaughter charges

    A man charged with manslaughter in a 2011 crash received a new court date of July 1 during a disposition hearing Monday in Shelby County Circuit Court.

    Lonnie Monroe, 45, of Shelbyville originally was arrested Sept. 24 by Kentucky State Police and charged with murder in a tractor-trailer accident from November 2011 in which a passenger in his truck was killed. On Oct. 4, that charge was amended to second-degree manslaughter, which is a Class C felony that carries a penalty of 5 to 10 years in prison.

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  • Top Titan Karas takes 2 titles

    LOUISVILLE – Gabby Karas was double trouble Friday.

    Karas, an eighth-grader at Collins High School, claimed a pair of titles in the Class AA meet at the KHSAA Track & Field State Championships, winning the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs at the University of Louisville’s Owsley Frazier Cardinal Park.

    “Gabby was terrific,” Titans Coach Jerry Lucas said.

    Thanks to Karas’ victories Collins' girls’ team finished 11th.

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  • Titans have ‘fun’ at Rockets’ expense

    LAWRENCEBURG – The Collins softball team was digging the long ball Monday night.

    The Titans smashed five home runs to outslug crosstown-rival Shelby County, 16-9, in the 30th District Tournament semifinals at Anderson County’s four-bagger-friendly field.

    Bailey Rankin hit two round-trippers and Lauren Shepherd, Shelbi Poehlein and Danaria Lewis one each for Collins, which played the host Bearcats at 6 p.m. Thursday in the district final.

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  • New dad Brown delivers victory

    It has been quite a few weeks for Brandon Brown.

    First the Shelbyville professional golfer became a father in late April.

    Then Sunday he capped off an incredible final-round comeback – making birdie on the first playoff hole – to capture the NGA Pro Tour’s 2013 Cherry Blossom Classic in Georgetown.

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  • SCHS doubles team ousted in 2nd round

    Shelby County’s doubles duo of junior Doug Martin and freshman Jeron Russell lost Thursday in the second round of the KHSAA State Championships at the Lexington Tennis Center.

    Lone Oak’s Cody Dalton and Grant Hammons, one of eight teams in the tourney seeded ninth, outlasted Martin and Russell, 4-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-6), in the Round of 32.

    Martin and Russell had won their first-round match, beating Bowling Green’s Noah Flener and Brandon Lee, 6-2, 6-2, earlier in the day.  

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  • Collins baseball team handles Henry County

    Senior Dan Sanders tossed a 1-hit shutout to lead the Collins baseball team to a 10-0, 5-inning victory over visiting Henry County on Tuesday night, the Titans’ Senior Night.

    Sanders gave up a single to Landon New to start the game, and that was it. He finished with eight strikeouts to improve to 9-0 on the season.

    Sanders had plenty of offensive support as the Titans (27-6) scored one run in the first inning, two each in the second and third and then plated five in the fourth to end the game early.

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  • 3 more sign college grants

    A trio of high school student-athletes signed earlier this week to continue their academic and athletic careers.

    Shelby County senior Nathan Hayes signed Monday to play baseball for St. Catharine College, Shelby County senior Samantha Orange signed Tuesday to play women’s soccer at Kentucky Christian University and Collins senior Nate Clifton signed Wednesday to play baseball for Milligan (Tenn.) College.

     

    Nathan Hayes

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