Stories from Saturday, February 17, 2007

Virginia Walls Calahan, 88, of Shelbyville died Friday in Murfreesboro. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Feldhaus Memoerial Chapel with the Rev. Stephen Caine officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will begin 1 p.m. Monday...

Funeral services for Lavada "Sally" Williams Bell, 87, of Shelbyville, who died Friday at Bedford County Medical Center, will be 11 a.m. Monday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with Frank Butler and Rufus Clifford officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens...

Funeral services for William Dean "Bill" Ross, 40 of Shelbyville, who died Wednesday at his home, will be 2 p.m. Sunday at London Funeral Home in Lewisburg. Additional services will be held later at Braman & Son Memorial Chapel in Knox, Ind., where burial will follow in Highland Cemetery...

DNA testing is to be conducted by the state crime lab because of a murder suspect's claim that she was raped by her husband, according to Sheriff Randall Boyce. As she was being taken to jail on Wednesday, Kimberly Ann Ross, 37, shouted to media that she'd been beaten and raped by her husband, William "Bill" Ross, 40, "and so we did a test to see," Boyce said Friday afternoon...

To the untrained eye, the small building at Sherry Warner Hunter's home outside of Bell Buckle is just another one of many structures that dot the rural landscape of Bedford County. But inside, you see that its a sculpting studio where creative magic takes place. Artwork from this building has ended up all over the state and another piece is being worked on that will be unveiled next month in Shelbyville...

Help is on the way for Hispanic women who are expecting a child through a new program to be offered by The Center for Family Development. The Center is one of seven agencies to recently receive the March of Dimes Chapter Community Grant Award. It will be used to implement the Comenzando bien curriculum, described as a bilingual culturally appropriate, prenatal education curriculum for Hispanic women...

"Man, that was a great game, wasn't it?" Exact or similar sentiments echoed across the gym after Cascade's 82-75 District 9-A tournament semifinal win over visiting Van Buren County on Friday night. Shot selection was precise. Turnovers were sparse. Fundamentals were sound...

The Times-Gazette newsroom computers are iMacs which were installed in late 1999. They are not up-to-date. That's one of several factors to keep in mind when sending us information to be included in the newspaper. For example: Why not plain text? For some strange reason, people insist on sending press releases as Microsoft Word files. ...