Today's News

Shelby County saw its fair share of the retail boom during this past weekend and luckily missed out on some of the confrontation that could have come with it.

While folks were fighting over items across the country, it was smooth sailing all over the county from before midnight Thursday through Saturday.

"It was our best Black Friday ever," said Mike Tracy with Tracy's Home Furnishings in Shelbyville. "It was a fantastic weekend. We had several people in, and we sold a lot of things."

Judy Young said she realized late in life that her boots were made for more than just walking – they were made for hiking long-distance trails.

Young, 66, has by her estimation trail-hiked more than 3,000 miles since retiring in 1997 as a teacher from the Shelby County school system. Her foot-trips, some of which she has done by herself, have taken her coast-to-coast in the United States and to several overseas destinations.

But before she could take her first journey, she had to avoid stumbling over the loving objections of family and friends.

The plea for pieces of information that law enforcement officials owe Shelby Countians has become sadly and amazingly more complex these past few weeks.

We want to know answers to our questions, and we want to know them now – although we now understand that such demands aren’t always simple.

First, there was the horrible beating of Denisse Escareno, found by the side of Mount Eden Road in the middle of a Saturday afternoon.

During the past two and a half years, people have gotten used to the sight of the future judicial center under construction on Main Street.

But come Dec. 19, that will all change when the Shelby County Judicial Center officially opens to the public.

That is, if everything goes according to schedule, Circuit Clerk Lowry Miller said.

“If everything goes well, we’ll be back open by the nineteenth,” he said.