Stories from Monday, March 26, 2007

Clara Faith Allen was stillborn Friday at Winchester (Va.) Medical Center. A private graveside service will be conducted at Shenandoah Memorial Park with David Martin officiating. She was the daughter of Robert Michael and Jennifer Marie Coats Allen of Winchester, Va...

The first man tried, convicted and sentenced in Bedford County on a charge of violating the state sex offender registry law had his conviction reversed by the Court of Criminal Appeals last month, but on Friday he was rearrested and charged in the same event...

A Shelbyville couple charged with TennCare fraud pleaded guilty on Friday when a jail sentence was converted to probation and restitution ordered. Barbara Jean and David Michael Westmoreland of Robinson Lane were sentenced on two counts of fraud each and placed on probation for two years and six months...

Bedford County Nursing Home is one of three facilities in Tennessee approached by a company that hopes to succeed Medicare as the health care underwriter for residents at the home, officials have explained. Wayne Schumann, administrator of the county-owned medical residence on Union Street, advised the nursing home's trustees late last week that recently he'd been approached by a representative of HealthSpring...

Jury selection was scheduled to begin this morning for a civil trial in a dispute between a horse trainer and a horse owner who says the trainer sored his horse, according to public documents. The trial in Bedford County Circuit Court is between Bill Reinhart, owner of a horse barn and farm on Highway 64, and Eddie Tuck of Eden, N.C., a horse trainer who had an oral agreement with Reinhart, records show...

At 5:45 Saturday evening, the announcement came across the barn intercom in the voice of National Trainers' Show Co-chairman Benny Johnson: "The officials of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have told me they are pleased with the way the show is running. ...

Harris Middle's soccer team put another notch in the win column with a 7-0 victory over Coffee County Middle on the road Friday afternoon. The Eagles (6-2) remain undefeated in Central Tennessee Conference action and host rival Tullahoma Middle this afternoon at the SCHS soccer field at 5:30...