Stories from Monday, July 18, 2005

A $26.3 million loan from USDA Rural Development will allow Shelbyville-based Duck River Electric Membership Corp. to improve its existing utility system and provide service to new members in Bedford County, announced U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon. "Providing residents with a reliable power source enhances a community's quality of life and economic development opportunities," Gordon said. "Top-notch companies that pay good wages demand sound infrastructure."...

A water pipe through a pond at Rover was approved by Bedford County Utility District directors last week when they also approved water service to about 50 of nearly 200 homes planned on approximately 90 acres near Shelbyville's Airport Industrial Park...

A 20-year-old man's probation was revoked Friday because of a theft, but his three codefendants face additional punishment because he's going to jail. It's a result of what lawyers call joint and several liability, meaning all involved become responsible for results of an action which, in this case, was a series of fires at empty houses...

As the first criminal charges against Saddam Hussein were filed last week, a Shelbyville resident returned to his base from a military raid near Baghdad where insurgents shot at his unit which captured a sniper. U.S. Army Sgt. Timothy Krieg, a 1987 graduate of Shelbyville Central High School, reports his 278th Regimental Combat Team came under fire from the sniper who was captured while wearing what's sometimes called a "man dress" in Iraq...

Just over two weeks to go .... I've got a million little things to worry about between now and the morning of Aug. 3. We will be flying out of Atlanta. My parents are driving myself and two of my teammates down to Atlanta. From there we fly to Detroit, then Amsterdam, then Nairobi. ...

Funeral services for Frances Elizabeth Hastings, 89, of Shelbyville, who died Sunday at Cornelia House Nursing Home in Nashville after an extended illness, will be noon Wednesday at Hillcrest Funeral Home. Mark Pierce will officiate and burial will follow in Willow Mount Cemetery...