Stories from Saturday, September 16, 2006

A Harris Middle School student allegedly took a pistol into the building Monday, Sept. 11 and will return Monday to Bedford County Juvenile Court after he and a companion made initial appearances Wednesday. Sheriff Randall Boyce and Capt. Tony Barrett, who leads the sheriff's department's school resource officers, confirmed much of the information from a Shelbyville resident who named the boys...

A Shelbyville man faces up to 14 years in prison as a result of a jury's verdict that he facilitated the burglary of a Unionville home. Brian Foster Vise, 28, of Shapard Drive, was found guilty Aug. 1 in connection with the Dec. 2 burglary of Chris Heard's Kingdom Road home, where guns, a camera, medicine and stereo speakers were taken...

Suspected cocaine with an estimated value of $32,500 was confiscated along with four scales, four guns and $4,700 Thursday night and Friday morning in Bedford County. "This is a substantial amount of cocaine," Tim Lane, director of the 17th Judicial District Drug Task Force, said Friday afternoon. "The street value could be anywhere from $25,000 to $40,000."...

Weights and a weightlifting bench, a lawn mower, two bicycles and several compact discs and cassette tapes have been stolen from a mini-barn at a Bird Street home. Terry Roshea Sims told police Thursday a lock was "knocked off" the door to gain entry...

MURFREESBORO -- "There is no greater display of courage than was displayed by our prisoners of war," said Tony Bennett of the Veterans Administration's Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (TVHS), during an Ex-POW / MIA Day observance Friday at the Alvin C. York VA Medical Center...

NASHVILLE (AP) -- If self-confessed murderer Daryl Keith Holton gets his way, on Tuesday he will become the first prisoner to die in Tennessee's electric chair in 46 years and only the second person in the U.S. to be executed by that method in more than two years...

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, said to be spreading like wildfire across the country, is raging in Bedford County, according to Joyce Boggs, who, along with Tera Overcast Davis, coordinates the local program through Argie Cooper Public Library...

NASHVILLE -- Community took on Davidson Academy Friday night and quickly found that four games at the varsity level does not ready a program to play a team of the caliber of the defending Division II-A state champions. The Bears scored almost at will against an overmatched Viking defense. Conversely, the boys in purple and gold were simply unable to match up with their opponents' offensive firepower and were outscored 45-6...

Here we go again. Once again, Muslims worldwide are doing their usual bit, namely seething and expressing rage over something somebody said that offended their oh-so-delicate sensibilities. This time the troublemaker was that rascal Pope Benedict XVI, who had the absolute gall to quote a 14th-century Byzantine emperor in a conversation with a "learned Persian" about Christianity and Islam -- "and the truth of both."...

Funeral services for Steven Scott Inman, 34, of Tullahoma, who died Friday at Harton Regional Medical Center, will be 1 p.m. Monday at Hillcrest Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be 5-8 p.m. Sunday.

Avery "Bud" Carroll, 71, of Shelbyville died Friday at Bedford County Medical Center. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Monday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Jonathan Sims officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Sunday...

KNOXVILLE --- Tennessee teetered on the edge of disaster all night against seventh-ranked Florida on Saturday evening. The Volunteers, ranked No. 13, finally toppled at the most inopportune of times. Despite leading by 10 points late in the third quarter, Tennessee (2-1,0-1 in SEC) gave up a pair of touchdown passes by Chris Leak in the final 17 minutes and the Gators waltzed out of Neyland Stadium with a narrow 21-20 win in hand.

Sometimes the final score of a game can be a little misleading. Such was the case in Shelbyville Central's 40-7 loss to visiting Hillsboro in a Region 5-4A clash Friday night. Although it was a 33-point loss, the Golden Eagles walked away with a lot of positives along with the respect of one of the region's top teams...

CHAPEL HILL -- Cascade took a definite step in the power struggle that is the Region 5-A standings by ruining homecoming night for 10th-ranked Forrest with a 27-7 victory on Friday night. With the win, the Champions improved to 4-0 overall and 2-0 in 5-A. The Rockets fell to 4-1, 1-1...