Stories from Tuesday, February 21, 2006

No services will be held for infant Alberto Rodriguez of Shelbyville, who died Saturday at Bedford County Medical Center. He was the son of Alberto and Damiana Ramirez Rodriguez. Gowen-Smith Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Funeral services for Carolyn R. Brannon, 62, of Wartrace, who died Monday at Centennial Medical Center, will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Gowen-Smith Chapel. Burial will follow in Horse Mountain Cemetery.

Wanting her sons to experience a piece of American history, Donna Phillips of Bell Buckle made arrangements to take her sons, Dylan and Dustin, to Atlanta for the funeral services of civil rights icon Coretta Scott King. When Dylan, a Cascade High School freshman, told two friends he was going to the funeral, they asked to go along. With the approval of their parents, Tyler Woods and Tevin Lanier, also Cascade freshmen, joined the Phillips family and headed south on Feb. 6...

A Liberty School student is under house arrest after he allegedly made death threats against two other students on the Internet, according to county officials and relatives of several students at the K-8 school. "There was no threat," according to the mother of a boy who's apparently named in a petition to the Bedford County Juvenile Court asking that he be declared a delinquent because of threats he allegedly wrote on a Web page...

A Bedford County teen is improving and in stable condition after undergoing surgery Monday morning for injuries he received in a single vehicle accident on Highway 130 Friday night in Franklin County. According to report by Tennessee Highway Patrolman Brandon Hunt, 16-year-old Randall Alex Adams of Unionville-Deason Road lost control of his 1992 Honda Accord as he rounded a curve near the Tullahoma city limits and struck a utility pole around 9 p.m. ...

Funeral services for Phillip Morton Cook, 64, of Shelbyville, who died Sunday at Harton Regional Medical Center in Tullahoma, will be noon Thursday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel. Per his request, his remains will be cremated. Burial will be in Unionville Cemetery...

SPENCER -- Cascade's Alex Craig came out, kicked off the cobwebs from a 10-day layoff and canned a couple 3-pointers in each of the first two quarters to give his team enough breathing room to pull out a 48-39 win over rival Community in the opening round of the District 9-A tournament on Monday night...

Emogene Chambliss Barnes Lunn of Holts Corner, postmaster of Holts Corner and Bell Buckle for 37 years, died Sunday at NHC Place at Cool Springs. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Williamson Memorial Funeral Home with Hal Manier officiating. Burial will be at Triune Cemetery...

Funeral services for Joe Campbell, 58, of Murfreesboro, who died Friday at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro, will be 7 p.m. Thursday at H. Preston Scales & Sons Funeral Home in Murfreesboro. Burial will be Friday at Middle Tennessee Veterans Cemetery in Pegram, at a time to be announced later.