Stories from Monday, May 2, 2005

Similar armed robberies occurred at two Shelbyville convenience stores over the weekend. A relatively-short white man carrying a black handgun was described as a suspect in both robberies, police said. The suspect wore black face paint at one store and a black ski mask in another...

Spontaneous combustion is the cause stated by investigators Monday for the fire that burned a cabinet shop on Woodbury Street last month, and now the proprietors are starting over in a building where they began the business last year. "I don't see any evidence or circumstance to indicate an intentionally set fire," said Les Rowland, a fire investigator hired for the company that insured Quality Cabinets, operated by Lynn Wilson and Greg Curl. ...

A Normandy Lake-area man won the A class race of glider pilots flying Sunday from Russell Puckett Field at Rover to Lebanon, Tullahoma and back to the gliderport south of Eagleville. Dick Butler, an engineer who's retired from a military contracting business near Arnold Engineering Development Center, said he averaged 59 mph during the two-hour flight when racing from cloud to cloud...

Cascade's Laura Bunn has decided to prolong her education and basketball career as she signed scholarship papers with nearby Motlow State Community College on Friday. "The fact that it was really close to home and it will give me a really good experience introducing me to college and getting me ready for the next level," said Bunn in citing her reasons for choosing the Lady Bucks...

Webb took down their sister school Webb Knoxville 14-2 in a moist lacrosse match in Bell Buckle on Saturday. "We played pretty good the whole game," Feet coach Jon Bloom said. "We did a good job of getting ground balls, getting our head up and passing the ball. The last couple of games, Hap (Collier) has just been great finishing on goals."...

Funeral arrangements for Bonnie Jean Thomason, 34, of Shelbyville, who died Sunday at Bedford County Medical Center, are incomplete and will be announced by Gowen-Smith Chapel.

Funeral services for Joe Daniel Richardson, 79, of Shelbyville, who died Sunday at his home after an extended illness, will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at First United Methodist Church. Burial will follow at Mount Auburn Church Cemetery in Clifton.

Bobby Wayne West, 52, of Christiana, died Friday at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Woodfin Memorial Chapel in Murfreesboro with Ronnie Leathers officiating. Burial will follow at Hayes Cemetery.