Stories from Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Hunger pangs did in an inmate after his escape from Bedford County Jail early Tuesday afternoon. Christopher Lee Richardson spent approximately four hours of freedom following his second escape from custody within a week. He was captured at a Lane Parkway residence shortly before 5 p.m. by Bedford County deputies and Shelbyville police officers...

SUMMERTOWN -- In life as well as sports, there's a ladder of success you have to climb to be at the top looking down on everyone else. It's hard to move your way up that ladder without first seeing the steps in front of you. In 2005, the Cascade Lady Champions took several leaps skyward on their way to goals of future championships and can take with them pride of a winning season and the knowledge of what it takes to go home with district and regional titles...

Trustees for Bedford County Medical Center agreed Monday if county commissioners sell the hospital, their panel either must either be continued or another created as a board of directors for the county-owned nursing home. "If this hospital sells, will this board go to the nursing home?" Trustee Debi Brown asked during trustees' committee meetings in the hospital last night. Trustee Edward Huffman replied "That's up to the commissioners."...

Wayne Michael Lobb, 49, of Shelbyville, died Sunday at Bedford County Medical Center. Memorial services will be held at a later date in New Jersey. Gowen-Smith Chapel is in charge of local arrangements...

A Bedford County teacher has sought help from a mediation service offered by the Department of Defense since he's said his status as a Marine reservist was raised during what his principal described as a routine performance review. "We're going to do what's legal and we're going to do what's right," Assistant School Superintendent Ed Gray said of circumstances surrounding Liberty School Principal Bill Pietkiewicz and eighth grade teacher Ben Moore, who called a national hotline for Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve.. ...

A senior judge from Williamson County on Monday ruled that a 44-year-old Bedford County man shouldn't be executed June 9 as a result of his conviction six years ago on charges of killing his four children. Daryl Keith Holton, however, remains on death row as Judge Don Harris's decision simply provides time for the state's Post Conviction Relief Office to make arguments during a hearing on whether Holton should be put to death...

Webb's journey through the peaks and valleys of the softball season came to its finality on Monday in Hendersonville as the Lady Feet fell 9-3 to Middle Region Tournament host Pope John Paul II. "They gave us chances in the early innings to stay in the game," Webb coach James Garcia said. "The first and third innings we had runners on and (couldn't score)."...

Shelbyville Central's tennis season ended Tuesday with losses in individual regional competition. The boys doubles team of Ross Beavers and Zach King downed Andrew Cotton and D.J. Farris 6-3, 7-5 in a boys semifinal match before falling to Breaden Verble and James Hayes of Murfreesboro Siegel 6-2, 7-5 in the finals...

A Bedford County man faces charges after allegedly pulling a gun on his stepfather and demanding money. John William Neill, 32, Highway 82 South, is being held without bond at Bedford County Jail on charges of aggravated robbery, resisting arrest. Neill went to the home of his stepfather, Billy Matlock, on Sulphur Springs Road and left with a check for a large amount of money, a vacuum cleaner and a ceramic eagle, Detective Sam Bragg of the Bedford County Sheriff's Department said...

Funeral services for Haskell Morton Carrick, 74, of Shelbyville, who died Sunday at Bedford County Medical Center, will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Arnold King and the Rev. Jimmy Gray officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.

Sgt. Timothy Krieg of Shelbyville sent this photo of himself with children and other locals in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. "The people were very friendly, and the kids wanted everything," said Krieg in an e-mail. "In my opinion, about 85 percent of the people really want us here. You can see it in their eyes when we roll through towns and stop to talk and do patrols." Krieg supports ...