Stories from Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Funeral services for Alfred Ray Green, 68, of Lawrenceburg, brother of Stanley Green of Shelbyville, will be 11 a.m. Friday at Pettus-Turnbo Chapel in Lawrenceburg with James Tillar officiating. Burial will follow at Mimosa Cemetery.

A memorial service for Patrick Edward Smith Sr., 58, of Shelbyville, who died Tuesday night at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Nashville after a long illness, will be 11 a.m. Friday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Bill Doak officiating.

Fred Jackson Holt, 82, of Shelbyville died Tuesday at Bedford County Nursing Home. A private graveside service will be held 10 a.m. Thursday at Willow Mount Cemetery with Robert Byrd officiating. Gowen-Smith Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Donald Gary Ryan, 55, of Shelbyville died Tuesday at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Nashville. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Friday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Jimmy Gray officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.

KNOXVILLE (AP) -- The former president of one of Middle Tennessee's oldest banks agreed to step down and repay $100,000 in bank money he used for personal expenses. Under terms reached with federal regulators, Eldon B. "Brac" Thoma III also agreed to leave the banking business. He was head of 122-year-old First National Bank of Tullahoma for 27 years before stepping down last year...

An appeal appears likely now that a Bedford County jury has delivered split verdicts in Tuesday's trial of a Mt. Juliet woman who'd been charged with disorderly conduct and assaulting two security officers at the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration last year...

Nearly $2 million -- much of it from a federal grant -- is being sought to upgrade radio communications equipment serving city and county law enforcement agencies. A total of $1,921,000 was requested from Bedford County Commission's finance committee at a meeting Tuesday night. Members Roger Brothers, Bobby Vannatta and Bo Wilson voted to send the request on to the full commission. Committee member Joe Tillett was out of town...

"Developments" postponed a preliminary hearing on Tuesday for a kidnapping case, according to the defense attorney of one of two men accused of taking a woman from a Shelbyville street and holding her in a car against her will. Antwan Deron Buchanan, 19, and Marcus Eugene Page, 25, both of Fayetteville, are accused by Brooke Lee Whitaker, 23, of Southview Drive in connection with an incident that started on Lipscomb Street near Elm Street on July 6, according to public records...

A Bedford County commissioner has suggested that commissioners be allowed to buy health insurance from the plan available to county employees, and Tuesday a commission committee forwarded the idea without a recommendation. "Participation in this plan for county commissioners is to be at no cost to the citizens of Bedford County," Commissioner Joe Tillett wrote to the county commissioners' Rules Committee, explaining he couldn't be at yesterday's meeting because he was out of town...

A rezoning request for the site of the new Bedford County Medical Center [BCMC] will be before the Shelbyville Municipal Planning Commission next week. The request is for Lot #5 of the Airport Business Park, described at Parcel 38.01 of Tax Map 50, a total of 25 acres located on Highway 231 North...

Robert Crigler has announced his candidacy for circuit court judge in the 17th Judicial District which includes Bedford, Lincoln, Marshall and Moore counties. Crigler has served as the Part I judge since February 2005 when he was appointed by Gov. Phil Bredesen to succeed Judge Charles Lee, who retired before his term expired...

Things didn't quite go as planned on Tuesday night for Shelbyville Senior American Legion Post 23 as they dropped both parts of a doubleheader to Columbia American Legion Post 19. The tables turned quickly in Columbia's favor in the first game at SCHS...

Results from Tuesday's Shelbyville City Open tennis matches: Girls 10-14 Singles Jenna Crouse d. Konomi Akiyama 6-2, 6-3 Kasi McDonald d. Brianne Jones 6-0, 6-0 Boys 15-18 Singles Justin Gordon d. Eric Berngruber 7-5, 2-6, 6-1 Men's B Singles...

The University of Tennessee Athletic Department announced that the University of Central Florida -- which previously had a football game scheduled with the Vols on Sept. 29, 2007 -- has exercised its option, per contract, to cancel that game. Therefore, Tennessee has signed a contract to play Louisiana-Lafayette on Nov. 3, 2007, in Knoxville...