Staff photos 5-3-12

Lakaia Young signs up her daughter Lanaya Young for kindergarten at East Side Elementary School. (T-G photo by Jim Davis)
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Detective Sam Jacobs of the Shelbyville Police Department pours accelerant on a pile of items confiscated by city police and the Bedford County Sheriff's Department. Confiscated items are burned regularly after court cases are cleared. Observing are, back from left, Shelbyville Police Chief Austin Swing, Circuit Court Clerk Thomas Smith, Capt. Tony Barrett of the Bedford County Sheriff's Department and SPD Assistant Chief Mike Rogers. (T-G Photo by David Melson)
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This couple takes advantage of a warm spring day to fish along the Duck River. (T-G photo by Jim Davis)
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A car's engine caught fire Wednesday morning next to Bedford County Courthouse, and practically everyone who wasn't in custody came out to watch the action. "I have no idea what happened," said the car's owner, court officer J.W. Sons (the uniformed officer at far left in the group above), who was in a courtroom when told the Nissan Altima was smoking. (T-G Photo by David Melson))
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Singed wires in the photo of the engine show the fire's apparent origin. (T-G Photo by David Melson)
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(T-G Photo by David Melson)
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A warm dry spring day was a good day to gather hay in a field along Cortner Road. (T-G photo by Jim Davis)
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