Stories from Monday, August 7, 2006

It's beginning to look a lot more like football season. After rain chased Tennessee inside for the first two practices of the season, the Vols finally got a chance to play outside on Sunday afternoon at Haslam Field. The Vols donned shoulder pads for the first time as well, working out on a warm, muggy day with temperatures consistently in the mid-90's...

Shelbyville Central's first annual Golden Eagle Golf Scramble was billed a huge success Saturday by its organizers. "Considering we didn't have a lot of time to put this event together, we're very pleased with the outcome," Eagle football coach Jason Hardy said. "I think that this has the capability of becoming a huge event in the future and a great fundraiser."...

NASHVILLE -- John Stephens jumpstarted the Shelbyville Sox offense in Roy Hobbs Adult Baseball League play by leading off the bottom of the first inning with a solo home run. But, it wouldn't be enough fuel on the flame as the Sox fizzled late in the contest and fell to the Nashville Phillies 6-4 on Sunday at Pitts Field...

Funeral arrangements for Shatika Bowen, 22, and her son Malachi Bowen, 3, who were killed Sunday in an automobile accident, are incomplete and will be announced by Feldhaus Memorial Chapel.

WARTRACE -- The 100th anniversary edition of the Wartrace Horse Show had plenty of pageantry, and plenty of spectators, befitting its special milestone, but the presence of U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors scared away some trainers, leaving many classes with only a handful of equine competitors...

A Bedford County Jail trusty who escaped from a road gang more than five years ago, fled through three other states and worked briefly with a traveling carnival was back in circuit court here last week after being returned to jail. James David May, 32, previously of Green Acres Road, pleaded guilty to felony jail escape before Judge Lee Russell on Thursday after having decided against taking his case to a jury in a trial that had been scheduled to start this morning...

Even though a chancellor told him that it seemed appropriate to add U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon as a defendant in a petition for interpretation of state and federal law, J. Patrick Lyons of Bell Buckle has taken a different approach. Lyons asked Chancellor J.B. Cox to alter a proposed order prepared by Janet M. Kleinfelter, senior counsel in the financial division of the Tennessee Attorney General's Office, for Cox to sign...