Stories from Tuesday, November 1, 2005

There's a continuous grind to life that shows up at the worst possible times. You wake up, peel yourself out of bed and try to attack a tough day after just a handful of hours of sleep. Your day reaches its conclusion long after everyone else's and questions arise in your head about whether or not you got the allotted 24 hours...

Funeral services for Cynthia Ann May Edwards, 36, of Shelbyville, who died Monday at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, will be 3 p.m. Thursday at Moore-Cortner Funeral Home in Winchester. Geoff Giesemann will officiate and burial will follow in Franklin Memorial Gardens...

Bedford County Board of Commissioners will consider next week whether to hire a building codes enforcer and begin enforcing the International Building Code and the International Residential Code. The commission actually adopted the codes last January, but deferred action on enforcing them for a variety of reasons, ranging from discussions of whether the codes inspector would also have a role in the county's construction projects to whether the county could legally place a special revenue-generating fee on all codes inspections, including those done by the City of Shelbyville.. ...

A national organization working to end the use of corporal punishment in schools may have two representatives at the next meeting of the Bedford County Board of Education because of an allegation of child abuse by paddling at Community High School. Meanwhile, Cara Gruszecki-Smalley, an attorney with the Norton Law Firm of Shelbyville, says she's investigating the Oct. 19 paddling of Samuel Manus, 14, son of Freddy and Tracy Manus of Virgil Crowell Road, by Assistant Principal Keith Williams...

A Shelbyville man entered what his attorney agreed was a plea of convenience on Friday so he could continue to work, his attorney explained after the man pleaded guilty of assault. Douglas W. Wisdom, 45, of Clem Circle accepted a 4 1/2 year sentence from Bedford County Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell who sanctioned the plea agreement announced by Assistant District Attorney General Richard Cawley as discussed with defense attorney Richard Dugger...

The World Grand Champion Tennessee Walking Horse is honored each year by having a street at the Historic Celebration Grounds named in his honor. The sign bearing the name "Main Power Way" went up last week. All of the streets on the grounds are named for individuals or horses of historic significance in the history of the world championship horse show...