Stories from Wednesday, July 27, 2005

It's hard to think about football with temperatures outside nearing 100 degrees, but high school practice begins this week across Tennessee. Approximately 40 varsity players and another 17 freshmen took the field for Shelbyville coach Whit Taylor Tuesday afternoon for conditioning and drills. The Golden Eagles will work out in shorts this week and will put on the pads Monday...

A six-man, six-woman jury convicted a Bedford County man Tuesday on charges of theft and assault, lesser included offenses from his indictment, but declined to convict him on kidnapping charges. "I'm not happy with it," said Meridith Taylor Troxler of Old Unionville Road who testified John Robert Perkins, 37, tied her up and stole jewelry, her car, pocketbook, checks and a lockbox in a fit of rage because she was ending their relationship...

Subpoenas converted into Freedom of Information Act requests and persistent protection of attorney-client privilege by a government lawyer who participates in horse protection training were revealed Tuesday at Bedford County Courthouse. "I'm not happy that my subpoenas are converted into FOI requests," said Jill S. ...

FRANKLIN -- The road is winding and never-ending for the Shelbyville Sox as they venture across Metro Nashville to play out their Music City Baseball Association schedule. In a league whereby the teams involved refuse to play the local adult baseball team on their own turf, it sometimes gets old constantly being the underdog...

Don't call them carneys. They're in the business of providing outdoor amusement for family entertainment and if you want to risk it, consider her story. "When they called me a midget in school, I beat the heck out of them," says Alice Foss, who at age 66 stands 4-feet, 8-1/2-inches tall. "But then I found out I'm a pituitary gland dwarf."

Bedford County Board of Commissioners' budget and finance committee, meeting Tuesday night, stood by its decision to recommend to the full commission the sale of four lots and the Medical Arts Building, saying it was trying to do what was necessary to avert a county budget crisis...

Funeral services for Owen McConnell, 67, of Shelbyville, who died Sunday, will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Hillcrest Funeral Home. The Rev. Mickey Dalton will officiate and burial will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.

Funeral services for William Paul Adams, 81, of Shelbyville, who died yesterday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will be 10 a.m. Friday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Bobby McGee officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery.