Stories from Thursday, January 12, 2006

Gail Cobb, 52, of Tullahoma, a health information supervisor at Bedford County Medical Center, died Tuesday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville after an extended illness. Funeral services will be 2:30 p.m. Friday at Tullahoma Funeral Home with Jack Hice officiating. Burial will follow at Pennington Cemetery...

After maintaining for more than three years that he did not shoot four people as they slept in a mobile home on Cortner Hollow Road, a 31-year-old Bedford County man on Thursday accepted two 20-year sentences as he pleaded guilty of providing the murder weapon....

Bedford County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday night to hire a codes enforcer and begin enforcing county building codes Feb. 13. Commissioners also approved a re-zoning on U.S. 41-A just east of Shelbyville for a trucking warehouse and a proposed soybean oil extraction plant...

Bell Buckle's town council has approved a resolution to submit an application for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) to fund state mandated sewer upgrades. The council applied for the CDBG with the town to pay 30 percent, about $161,700, with the grant side at $377,300...

A variety of agencies and offices will close for Monday's observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. Here are some schedules of broad interest: Bedford County Courthouse and Courthouse annex offices will close Saturday (where applicable) and Monday....

A woman who broke into a Halls Mill Road home attacked and bit its owner when he arrived home unexpectedly Saturday afternoon. Charles E. Welsh was notified by his daughter that the home had been entered, Deputy Ronnie L. Gault said. The intruder was climbing out a back window when Welsh arrived...

A plot to kill for money and drugs, and to get control of an illegal drug trafficking operation, was unveiled Thursday in Bedford County Circuit Court. According to a prosecutor's report, the cold calculations of the crime included the timing of shots, knowing that the main target would have taken a sleeping pill after dates at a Tullahoma nightclub where the four victims' departure was monitored...

Photographs of veterans for publication in the Times-Gazette will not be accepted by the Veterans Council of Bedford County after Sunday, according to the council's chairman, who says enough money has been raised to pay for the Veterans Memorial. Beyond having raised enough money for the monument and the associated plaza, council chair and American Legion Post 23 commander Roy Bartlette says there must be a cutoff time for the purchase of bricks so that an order may be placed to obtain the brick pavers.. ...