Stories from Monday, May 22, 2006

Funeral services for Charles William "Buzz" Welsh Jr., 74, of Shelbyville, who died Sunday at Bedford County Medical Center, will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Gowen-Smith Chapel. Lloyd Warren will officiate and burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery.

Funeral services for James Davis Goosby, 87, of Shelbyville, who died Sunday at Glen Oaks Convalescent Center, will be 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Hillcrest Funeral Home. The Rev. Steve Murphree will officiate and burial will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens...

NASHVILLE -- The Shelbyville Sox avoided the rain long enough swing back into Roy Hobbs Adult Baseball League action against the Nashville Reds at Pitts Field on Sunday. Trailing 1-0 entering the top of the seventh inning, Shelbyville's Donnie Cruse ignited a two-out rally with a base hit to left. Brennan Whitson and Danny Parker drew walks to load the sacks. Jeremy Johnson answered with his second base hit of the game to plate three runs and push his team ahead 3-1...

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved $400,000 in federal funding for the Tennessee Civil War Heritage Area to promote tourism and economic development in Bedford County and across the state, announced U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon. "Because Tennessee played a key role in the Civil War, it is important we conserve, interpret and commemorate the places where our history unfolded," said Gordon, a co-founder of the Congressional Battlefield Caucus...

Bedford County's Law Enforcement Committee is recommending plaques for departing county leaders after the Aug. 3 election, including one for the sheriff who reflected on his record late last week. "I'm perfectly satisfied to let history judge me," outgoing Sheriff Clay Parker said in the courthouse during the committee meeting which concluded with Commissioner John Brown's comment to Parker; "God's speed to you."...

Burglary, drugs, a chase and an escape have landed a Shelbyville woman in the state penitentiary. Trina Nunley was found breaking into a Halls Mill Road home on the evening of Jan. 7, records show. She fled in a truck, led a police chase, zig-zagged through traffic, and then hid drugs by swallowing them before she was caught...