Stories from Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Graveside services for Tynie Sherls of Tacoma, Wash., will be held Wednesday at Mt. Ararat Cemetery in Shelbyville. The Rev. Nathan Frye will officiate. J.A. Welton & Son Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

In the first of four matches this week, Shelbyville Central's golfers claimed a 346-355 District 8-AAA win over host Lincoln County on Monday afternoon. Senior Brett Rogers led the Golden Eagles with a 3-under par 67 for medalist honors. Scott Anderton fired a 73 and Matthew Spain carded an 83 followed by Zach King's 123 in his first-ever match...

Tennessee Democratic Party chair Bob Tuke delivered a fiery, unabashedly-partisan keynote address at Monday's Bedford County Democratic Party barbecue, criticizing the Bush administration for its foreign and domestic policies. "Well, I've had enough, and you're going to hear about it tonight," said Tuke, a partner in the Nashville law firm of Traugher, Ney And Tuke...

Statistics show that 90 percent of those in prison will return to their old lifestyles and eventually back to jail. This disturbing information that has prompted eight local leaders in the Bedford County Jail Ministry toward an attempt of establishing a Halfway Home in Bedford County...

A Bedford County woman who's an emergency room nurse in Tullahoma is set to leave Wednesday for a Biloxi, Miss., hospital to relieve nurses who've been working extra hours since Hurricane Katrina struck. "I would not be surprised if they have us working 18-hour shifts," Bonnie Vincent, 24, said with a quiet resolve. "I believe that I became a nurse for a reason. I was in nursing school when 9/11 happened and so I couldn't respond. Now I can...

An overflow home crowd watched the Community junior varsity fight hard Monday night before falling 22-14 to Forrest. On a perfect night for football, the Vikings spotted the Rockets a 14-0 first-quarter lead on two runs by quarterback Colin Henson. Forrest was driving for a third score in the second period when Casey Sadler buried the Rocket fullback with a classic tackle, forcing a fumble that was picked up by Community's Ryan Sheehan, who ran it into the end zone from 36 yards out...

Negotiations between Bedford County Medical Center and an ear, nose and throat doctors' clinic on Colloredo Boulevard were continued Monday with permission from a state administrative law judge. A compromise was to be sought to see if there's a possibility for cooperation between the hospital acquired from the county July 1 and the clinic that on June 22 was granted state permission to expand its services...

A man who barged into a Deery Street home demanding money and carrying a gun left without a cent Saturday night, Shelbyville police said. No one at the Estela Solano Vitervo residence had money, Officer Jerry Lawrence said, so the man ran away toward Bird Street...

ennessee athletics director Mike Hamilton announced Tuesday that Tennessee will play two football games against North Carolina. The Volunteers travel to Chapel Hill, N.C., Sept. 24, 2011, before the Tar Heels make the trip to Neyland Stadium Sept. 8, 2012. The home-and-home agreement with UNC renews a border-state rivalry that featured 31 meetings between 1893 and 1961...