Stories from Tuesday, August 1, 2006

HOOVER, Ala. -- Anytime I am upset about something, I try to give myself some time to simmer down. I just can't keep from shaking my head when I think back about the questions thrown out at coaches and players at SEC Media Days last week. Upon my first trip to the Wynfrey Hotel just outside of Birmingham, I had hopes of compiling plenty of information for the Times-Gazette's annual football section coming up in September. ...

Training was available Monday night on the "New Infinity." It wasn't a car, or about the "great beyond." It's a new brand of voting machine. Twenty-three people attended ... "And they were scared," election machine technician Tony Clanton said after the training session, allowing that any time there's something new to be learned, there's an element of fear...

Dr. Navid Monajjem, a surgeon from Emporia, Va., where Community Health Systems (CHS) has a hospital there as it does here, is now practicing in Shelbyville. "That hospital and its community are going through growing pains, but they are smaller than Shelbyville," the new Bedford countian said...

Closing arguments were scheduled to be heard this morning in the burglary trial of a Bedford County man charged with stealing 13 guns, stereo speakers and a prescribed medication. The trial of Brian Foster Vise, 27, continues today because his attorney, John Price of Murfreesboro, asked Judge Lee Russell to include instructions to jurors about an another crime they might consider while deliberating...

A record number of entries participated in the seventh annual Bedford County Fair Motorcross Shootout on Saturday night. Some 177 entries, including 40 from Bedford County, withstood all the mud from the morning rain. "This by far is the biggest turnout we've ever had," event director and fair board member Steven Daugherty said. ...

The cash register and several hundred dollars was taken from Moon's Barber Shop, Union Street, overnight Saturday. Owner Roy Moon told Shelbyville police Sunday morning the rear door had been forced and the cash register was gone along with the money and a Llama .45 caliber pistol...

Bettye Jean Smith, 70, of Tullahoma died Sunday at her home. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Mullins Chapel AME Church, where she was a member, with the Rev. Fred Beasley officiating. Burial will follow at Ervin-Stokes Cemetery. J.A. Welton & Son Funeral Home of Tullahoma is in charge of arrangements...

William F. "Bill" Smith, 84, of Shelbyville died Monday at Baptist Hospital in Nashville. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Bill Cartwright officiating. Burial, with full military honors, will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery.