Stories from Monday, May 16, 2005

Funeral services for Charles Emmett Burks, 72, of Wartrace will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at Gowen-Smith Chapel with Don Gallagher officiating. Burial will follow at Hollywood Cemetery. Mr. Burks died Sunday at Bedford County Medical Center.

Jamie Young has joined the Times-Gazette as a staff writer. Young completed high school in Chattanooga in 1996. She attended Motlow College where she was editor of the Motlow Monitor for a year. She was vice-president of the Communications Club for one year and president for another year. After leaving Motlow she attended Middle Tennessee State University, graduating earlier this month...

A 44-year-old man, convicted six years ago and condemned to die June 8 for killing his four children, was scheduled to have his case reviewed in Bedford County Circuit Court today by a senior judge from Williamson County. Daryl Keith Holton, who's been on death row at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, is the subject of the hearing request by Donald E. Dawson, an attorney with the Post Conviction Defense Office created by the Legislature in 1995...

Access to the judicial system for people with handicaps is provided with more than an elevator and wheelchair ramps, according to state and local officials. It could be better seating for someone who is hearing impaired so they may see people speaking in the courtroom and read lips better, or even providing a juror with a sign language translator, according to Judge Lee Russell...

Congratulations are in order. The fifth-seeded Webb Lady Feet scored their first-ever postseason victory in softball on Saturday with a 12-2 defeat of eighth-seeded University School of Nashville in an elimination game in the Middle Region Tournament at Pope John Paul II in Hendersonville...

Funeral services for Fred Thomas Nowlin Jr., 65, of Shelbyville, who died Sunday, will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Hillcrest Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Willow Mount Cemetery.