Stories from Thursday, May 18, 2006

One year ago, former Shelbyville Golden Eagle Jarred Frazier had just completed a very successful high school baseball campaign. His talent and hard work led to a scholarship at the University of Tennessee, where he's started 50 of 52 games in left field...

Counterfeit bills were passed twice at a Shelbyville restaurant Tuesday, police said. Three fake bills, two $50 and one $20, were used to pay for food orders at the drive-up window of Taco Bell, Madison Street. A manager spotted one of the $50s as it was being passed on the second occasion and called police...

There will be lots of leather and motorcycles rumbling through Bedford County Saturday as Bell Buckle hosts Tennessee's first official bike show championship. The small historic railroad town is already well known for hosting several popular events such as RC/Moon Pie Day and the Webb Craft Fair...

A nine-year prison term was handed down this week for a Shelbyville woman who had pleaded guilty of delivering crack cocaine about a year ago. "She's not a drug dealer," Assistant Public Defender Jack Dearing told Bedford County Circuit Court Judge Robert Crigler about Wanda Overcast, 39, of the King Arthur Trailer Park...

A National Horse Show Commission official has suspended one of more than 200 horse show judges as a result of his arrest on two charges of indecent exposure at different times to motel housekeeping staffers, according to the NHSC's executive vice president...

In a season when illegal immigration is a hot-button issue, Mike Smith of Shelbyville doesn't follow the discussion very closely. "I really try not to pay much attention to it," said Smith, a Canadian citizen who hopes to someday earn American citizenship...

William Glenn "Bill" Davis, 63, of Shelbyville and Anniston, Ala., died Tuesday in an automobile accident in Marshall County. The family will receive visitors from 4-6 p.m. Friday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel. Per his request, his body will be cremated...