Stories from Thursday, August 25, 2005

Funeral services for Levoy "Jackie" Nelson, who died Tuesday in Nashville after a long illness, will be noon Saturday at John Wesley United Methodist Church in Nashville. Elder Kenneth Edmondson will officiate.

NDONYO, Kenya -- Because of some health questions which the female residents of Ndonyo had raised during the nutrition workshop, the leaders of our LEAMIS International Ministries mission trip and the leaders of New Life Church decided that it would be a good idea to conduct separate men's and women's meetings one afternoon....

Football season is upon us and the Cascade Champions are ready to start their new life in a new region with a new quarterback. The Friday night lights will again glaze the eastern portion of Bedford County as Moore County buses over to Wartrace to try and reclaim some area bragging rights...

Tennessee Walking Horse owners, trainers and riders have a service similar to what senators and congressmen have -- live television showing them what's going on in their arena. Call it the loudspeaker of the 21st Century. This way they know when they need their horses ready," says William D. Anderson of WDA International, the video productions company based in Nashville that has wired every barn on the Celebration grounds...

A Shelbyville native, now living in Tullahoma and working at the Wal-Mart there, has accused a man who was arrested on a shoplifting charge of assaulting him while trying to get a list of license plate numbers that's used to prosecute theft suspects...

A man who allegedly owned a gun found atop a house on Bird Street faces multiple charges after his arrest early Wednesday. Officers were watching the Deery Street-Boston Street-Bird Street area for alleged drug activity early Monday night when a man later identified as Lloyd Everette Gant, 38, Hilltop Drive, "came through the bushes with something in his hand," Officer Sam Jacobs said...

Without evidence that permission was granted, a Manchester man should be found innocent of the charge of DUI by permission, according to a defense attorney's closing arguments this week in Bedford County General Sessions Court. "There is no proof that my client gave permission to drive," said Nashville-based defense attorney Jefre S. ...