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No one was injured in an incident last Wednesday when a train hit a car on South 7th Street, police say.

According to the police report, Patricia Nichols, 36, of 300 Main Street in Shelbyville, stopped her car on the railroad tracks with a train coming.

The report said the Nichols told officers her brakes failed. Police told her to step away from the car, and she did so before the train hit it.

Shelbyville Police Chief Robert Schutte said when the train hit the car, it knocked it into a ditch.

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The state fire marshal is looking into the cause of a house fire that destroyed a home in Mount Eden Sunday night, said Fire Chief Doug Herndon.

“It was a vacant house, so at least no residents were injured, although we did have a firefighter with a minor injury, but he is OK now,” he said.

Herndon said the call came in at about 2 a.m. and when firefighters arrived on the scene, the house was already totally engulfed by flames.

“It wasn’t safe for us to go inside, so we had to fight the fire from the outside only,” he said.

Gen. David M. Shoup served as Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps (Commander of all Marines) from Jan. 1, 1960 until Dec. 31, 1963, a 4-year period of the Cold War not without its difficulties.

Shoup, who was a surprising nominee for this important job, would find himself before the end of his tenure embroiled in one of the most worrisome military and political events that has confronted the United States: the Cuban Missile Crisis.