Stories from Saturday, May 27, 2006

Riding the crest of a strong opening night, the 36th Annual Celebration Spring Fun Show picked up where it left off on Friday night. Seventeen young riders answered the gate call in the Owner's Amateur Youth Riders 12-17 Years on Walking Mares or Geldings. ...

Funeral services for Robert Bell Clifford, 81, of Shelbyville, who died Friday at Bedford County Medical Center, will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Willow Mount Cemetery with Mark Pierce officiating. Burial, with full military honors, will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery...

A Baltimore, Md., man says he's going to Flat Creek where he'll place flowers on the grave of a Bedford County man who died fighting in Afghanistan as a U.S. Marine. The Maryland man's son also fought in Afghanistan and has since been deployed to Iraq...

A couple from Warren County are being held who may have been involved in the April shooting of the wife of Shelbyville's planning and zoning director. Tracy Green, the wife of Kip Green, was shot and wounded last month after she confronted a man and woman she caught red-handed breaking into their home in rural Coffee County...

The woman in the foreign dress and headwear lives quietly somewhere south of Nashville with a Christmas tree in her living room, a Yorkshire Terrier named after her doctor, and she's waiting for her "Teddy Bear." She's Tracy Webb, wife of Capt. Ted Webb, commander of the Tennessee Army National Guard B Battery of the 1-115th Field Artillery unit that's been working in Iraq, having left Shelbyville nearly eight months ago...

Some Bedford County Board of Education members believe that classroom needs in the Community School area might best be served by building a new high school instead of the planned new elementary school, but that would be more expensive -- and other members say the current, $80 million school building program is already more than the county can afford...