Stories from Thursday, February 2, 2006

James Robert "Jim" Snoddy, 79, of Shelbyville died Tuesday at Bedford County Medical Center. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Dr. Lloyd Doyle officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery.

Funeral services for Samuel Lee Rutledge, 51, of Bell Buckle, who died Tuesday at Alive Hospice in Nashville, will be 1 p.m. Friday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Steve Murphree officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.

Judith Faye "Judy" Pope of Shelbyville died Thursday at her home after an extended illness. Funeral services will be 3 p.m. Sunday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with the Revs. Norlan Scrudder and Ricky Page officiating. Burial will follow at Cothran Cemetery in Rover...

United Way of Bedford County, facing a decrease in contributions from a difficult fund-raising year, will have less money to allocate to non-profit health and human service agencies for the 2006-2007 allocations year which begins July 1. As of Tuesday, local pledges and contributions to United Way from the fall 2005 fund drive, to be completed during calendar 2006, totaled $237,580, according to literature distributed at Wednesday's meeting of the United Way board of directors. ...

MURFREESBORO -- Good teams find a way to overcome adversity. Great teams convert adversity into a means to motivate themselves to play at a higher level than their opponents. Liberty's Patriots demonstrated that they are a very good team -- and on the verge of being a great one -- by overcoming an early, large deficit to defeat DeKalb County Middle 59-29 Thursday night in the semifinals of the James C. Haile State Invitational Tournament at Middle Tennessee Christian School...

NASHVILLE -- Speaking at a packed Grand Old Opry House, President George W. Bush gave Tennesseans an informal recap of Tuesday's State of the Union speech, addressing Iraq, Iran, domestic issues and energy. Accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Sen. Lamar Alexander, both of Tennessee, Nashville was the first stop Wednesday for Bush following his annual address to the House and Senate. Laura Bush joined her husband for the Nashville visit...

Lewd molestation is the Oklahoma charge awaiting a 33-year-old man held in the Bedford County Jail following his arrest in Shelbyville after a city detective pursued a request from police in Enid, Okla. Meanwhile, the case against Gregory Allen Snow illustrates differences in Tennessee's law requiring convicted sex offenders to register with the sheriff's department. ...

A membership drive to enroll at least 100 people in the NAACP here has exceeded its goal, organizers said Tuesday. "We have 101 members of the NAACP of Bedford County," said the Rev. Sandra Avent of Murfreesboro, convening chairman of the reorganization committee...

Drunk and needing a ride home? For Timothy Darryl Brock of Shelbyville the solution was simple, police said. Call 9-1-1. "He called 9-1-1 from a pay phone at (a Deery Street store) and told the dispatcher that he needed him to call him a ride home," Officer Cody King of the Shelbyville Police Department said...

2006 Tennessee Football Signees (For additional information, see utsports.com) Signed and Currently Enrolled - January 2006 Name    Position         Ht.      Wt.      Hometown (High School/Previous School) Walter Fisher   DL       6-3      265      Nashville (Hillsboro HS/Coffeyville CC)...