Stories from Friday, October 13, 2006

Oscar Howard Crowell of Lewisburg, a retired employee with the Tennessee Division of Forestry, died Wednesday at Maury Regional Hospital. Services will be today at 2 p.m. at London Funeral Home in Lewisburg with burial to follow at Cochran Cemetery.

In a day and time where a lot of football coaches dread homecoming week and all the activities and distractions that's associated with it, Shelbyville Central coach Jason Hardy has a different view. "I really like homecoming. It's a fun time for players, students and fans. ...

MURFREESBORO -- The crown didn't fit this time around for the sixth-seeded Community Viqueens as they fell 25-20, 23-25, 25-14, 25-14 to No. 2 seed Page in the semifinals of the District 11-A/AA tournament at Middle Tennessee Christian School on Thursday night...

Funeral services for Shirley Thomas Metcalf, 78, of Petersburg, who died Wednesday at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Fellowship Baptist Church. Burial will follow in New Hope Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 4-8 p.m. today. Gallant Funeral Home in Fayetteville is in charge of arrangements...

NASHVILLE (AP) -- Gov. Phil Bredesen announced Thursday he has requested declarations of federal agricultural disaster for Bedford and 17 more Tennessee counties. Bredesen in August made two requests for a disaster declaration in 14 other counties. The U.S. Department of Agriculture approved six of those counties last month. The USDA is expected to make a determination about the other eight counties soon, according to a news release...

Shelbyville's city council passed a resolution Thursday declaring a property on Landers Street a nuisance, even though the lot had been recently cleaned. The property in question is owned by Linda Lee Wilhoite of 614 Landers St. She was fined a total of $2,250 plus court costs last week by City Judge John T. ...

An experiment to try an old system of having defendants in custody seated on courtroom benches instead of a holding room behind locked or guarded doors has been stopped. "We didn't like it," Bedford County Sheriff Randall Boyce said Thursday afternoon when asked about the change in the General Sessions Courtroom that was revealed Tuesday when Judge Charles Rich heard city police cases...

Eleven years in prison is the sentence for a Shelbyville man convicted by a jury that chose to believe a burglary victim who said he recognized a man's voice on the phone when he was asked what time he'd be home. The Bedford County jury deliberated about 10 minutes on Aug. 17, and Thursday last week, Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell sentenced Steven Tyus, 43, to serve eight years on a burglary charge and three years on a theft charge. The terms are to be served one after the other...

CHATTANOOGA (AP) -- A federal judge granted class action status to a lawsuit that contends Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat producer, depressed wages by hiring illegal immigrants at eight plants in Shelbyville, Alabama, Indiana, Missouri, Texas and Virginia...

One of at least three men who forced their way into a Narrows Road home late Wednesday held a teenager at gunpoint in his bedroom and pointed a shotgun at a neighbor checking on the commotion, police said. Fifteen-year-old Tyler Claxton told police as he lay in bed about 11:30 p.m. he heard a loud noise and at least three people came into his bedroom...

No funeral services are scheduled for John Richard Price, 67, of Shelbyville, who died Wednesday at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. Hillcrest Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.