Stories from Saturday, May 6, 2006

MANCHESTER -- Columbia won the rubber match with Shelbyville Central 5-2 in the opening round of the District 8-AAA tournament on Friday night. The teams had split a pair of games this season, and each were closely contested with a hit here or there or a bobbled ball being the difference...

Funeral services for Wilson Marshall Van Meter, 79, of Raus, who died Friday at Baptist Hospital in Nashville after an extended illness, will be 2 p.m. Monday at Tullahoma Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Bomar Cemetery in Raus.

Ingredients in cold and cough medicines have become magnets for thieves in recent years. One thief saw what she wanted on the shelves of McGee's Prescription Shop, Union Street, police said. A woman put the contents of three boxes of Corocidin CID into a satchel-type bag and ran out the front door Thursday morning, Officer Linda Adams said. The woman was last seen entering nearby Bedford County Medical Center, where two officers were unable to find her...

It will take a few years, but progress is being made to turn the idea of expanding State Highway 64 west of Shelbyville to four lanes into a reality. Shelbyville's planning and zoning director, Kip Green, said that a feasibility study for the project has been completed by the Tennessee Department of Transportation [TDOT]...

Bedford County Emergency Medical Services' revised growth plan, presented last month to the county commission's budget and finance committee, calls for three new stations to keep up with growth in the northern third of the county. Currently, average ambulance response times in those areas exceed 11 minutes. ...

Bryan Nerren, who pastors the House of Prayer in Shelbyville, also spends a lot of time on the other side of the globe in the impoverished nation of Nepal. His group is the Asian Children's Education Fellowship, whose mission is to bring Christ to the children of that country through education and healthcare. With 26 full-time employees, the fellowship is the only licensed prayer ministry in Nepal...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has cleared a path toward the execution of a Shelbyville man who murdered his three sons and a stepdaughter in November 1997 at a repair shop where he'd been living. However, there is no execution date for Daryl Keith Holton, 45, according to Sue Allison, spokesperson for the Supreme Court, which sets execution dates. It is unclear exactly when one might be set...