Stories from Wednesday, August 2, 2006

David Hoke of Murfreesboro has announced his candidacy for Republican State Executive Committeeman representing the 16th Senatorial District (Bedford, Moore and parts of Rutherford counties) in Thursday's election. One man and one woman are elected to represent each district...

KNOXVILLE (AP) -- A Shelbyville man set to be executed next month for killing his three young sons and his ex-wife's daughter will undergo a mental evaluation, a federal judge ruled. Daryl Keith Holton's execution is scheduled for Sept. 19. Holton has said he was suffering from severe depression when he lined up the children and shot them with a rifle in November 1997 in Bedford County...

Facilitation, not actual burglary and theft, were what the state proved Monday against a man who'd been charged in a Unionville burglary last December, according to verdicts issued by a Bedford County jury Tuesday. There was a "lack of evidence" to convict Brian Foster Vise, 27, on two of the indicted offenses, according to Vicki Lambert, one of three jurors who spoke after the trial, as did Felicia Hardin who said the state "didn't have enough evidence" on those charges...

While many Shelbyville residents will be paying more property tax, the elderly will be looking at tax relief. Councilman Leonard Travis says he will make a motion at next Thursday's Shelbyville City Council meeting to give a tax break to those age 65 and older or totally disabled and income of $20,000 or less...

What goes around, comes around, or so it appears for a Bedford County man who's wanted in circuit court here. He's the same man who accused the vice principal of Community High School of child abuse when his son was paddled last year following a school bus incident. State and county investigations have cleared the vice principal...

Another Shelbyville Central Golden Eagle has signed a college baseball scholarship. Kelby Sanders became the fourth senior out of the recent graduating class to step up when he signed with Columbia State Community College last week. The right-hander was Shelbyville's most consistent reliever last season as the Golden Eagles won the District 8-AAA regular season and tournament titles while posting the most wins in school history...

In the Sunday, July 30, Times-Gazette's column "Voice of the Public," the question was asked "Should the Dixie Chicks just shut up and sing?" The response of those questioned was overwhelmingly, "Yes!" One respondent said "I think they're terrible and ought to be ashamed of themselves."...

I was a bit amazed about recent criticism directed at David Melson for a column where he was pointing out some of the habits of immigrants in our community that may not be acceptable to most Americans. Namely coming into America illegally in vast numbers, behaving like you're still in a third world country and treating women like dogs, among other things...

One of the largest residential burglaries locally in recent months occurred Sunday or early Monday at a Temple Ford Lane home. Deneater Cleveland lost over $2,000 in cash, $3,000 worth of clothing, 50 DVDs and a DVD player, a Playstation II and 20 games and a television set, according to a Bedford County Sheriff's Department report...

Funeral services for John W. Stinnett, 36, of Fort Wayne, Ind., brother of Nancy Stinson-Moore of Shelbyville, will be 12:30 p.m. Friday at C.M. Sloan & Sons Funeral Home in Fort Wayne, Ind. Burial will follow in Concordia Cemetery Gardens.