Stories from Friday, February 24, 2006

James Eddie Redd Sr., 59, of Shelbyville died Friday at his home after an extended illness. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Monday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Douglas Moore officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.

Bedford County General Sessions Court Judge Charles Rich sent a Florida man's sexual battery case to the grand jury on Wednesday after a preliminary hearing that lasted more than three hours. Court officers also said that as Judge Rich considered charges against Jimmy A. Hull, 79, his alleged victims, age 15 and 9 years old, testified about the incident that allegedly happened on June 11...

The chairman of Shelbyville's Municipal Planning Commission asked members to start thinking about what kind of city they want in the next 20 years. It's a topic that Morgan Renegar has spoken about before due to the size of some of the subdivisions that have been before the body over the past year. In October of last year, he called for a moratorium on large subdivisions...

Bedford County's Election Commission met in secret Wednesday without any public notice because it was for an attorney-client conference, but that might not be possible if a bill being considered by state lawmakers is enacted and signed by the governor...

The woman whose car crashed into the back of a Bedford County school bus Thursday morning near Deason was identified later in the day as Danyelle L. Sumrall, 18, of Haynes Drive in Murfreesboro. Sumrall, a nursing student at Tennessee Technology Center at Shelbyville, died a few minutes after the crash while pinned in her car, investigators said. She had been en route to the school...

Bedford County Board of Education voted Thursday night to ask the county for $720,000 for 12 portable classroom buildings, each containing two classrooms, for a total of 24 classrooms. Nine of the portables are needed for student population growth, while the other three are to replace deteriorating units already in use...

A Shelbyville woman convicted late last year on nearly six dozen counts of forgery has been sentenced to 17 years and 6 months in prison by Judge Lee Russell, who's set to hear the woman's request for a new trial next Friday morning. The prison term imposed on Carolyn J. ...

As a fourth defense attorney is entering a murder case here, Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler decided Thursday to proceed with a hearing today for Jason Christopher Underwood, who's charged with stabbing a Sims Road couple to death in October 2004...

Shelbyville Central's Barry Stewart became the first Golden Eagle named as a finalist for TSSAA Class AAA Mr. Basketball. Stewart, a 6-foot-3 senior guard, joins Knoxville Bearden's Tony White Jr., son of former University of Tennessee basketball standout Tony White, and Jeremy Williams of Memphis Hamilton...

SPENCER -- A major part of being a good coach is not only being able to figure out your team weaknesses but also correcting them. Community came up short at the foul line in crunch time of Tuesday's District 9-A semifinal loss to No. 2 seed Eagleville. Viqueen coach Tony Garrette pinpointed the issue, resolved it in practice and his team responded...

LAWRENCEBURG -- For the third year in a row, Shelbyville Central will be playing in the District 8-AAA tournament championship. The Eagles (28-2) advanced by defeating Tullahoma 63-51 on Thursday night at Lawrence County High School. Shelbyville, currently ranked third in the state, claimed the championship two years ago with a win over Lawrence County, finished runner-up to Columbia last year and take on Coffee County tonight at 9...