Stories from Saturday, April 7, 2007

Funeral services for Preston C. Rishaw, 77, of Bell Buckle, who died Saturday at his home after an extended illness, will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Preston C. Rishaw III officiating. Burial will follow at Hazel Cemetery in Bell Buckle. Visitation will begin noon Tuesday.

Teams and players in every sport reach a crossroads where their season can go one way or another. A bitter cold Friday may end up being such an instance for Cascade. Riding high after sweeping rival Forrest earlier in the week, the Champions entered play in their 2nd Annual Walking Horse Wood Bat Classic with a tough road ahead that included three games over a 12-hour period on the day one alone...

Cancer may have returned to plague John "Junior" Helton, but his strong faith, love for his family and church have him fighting every day. The 81-year-old World War II veteran has seen his share of woes throughout his life. Captured by the Germans, he was held under brutal conditions as a prisoner of war until the end of the conflict. But he related an experience before his capture that has stuck with him today...

A car salesman's Valentine's Day murder takes center stage again Monday at a hearing to determine whether the case should go to the Bedford County grand jury. Ironically, a strikingly similar murder plot is playing out on three cable TV networks documenting a Florida murder 12 years ago, and one of those documentaries was televised three days before the crime...

The Times-Gazette ran an article on April 1 headlined "Bad driving leads to prison," dealing with the sentencing of Michael Sales by Circuit Judge Lee Russell on March 23. The article contained several misstatements of fact and omitted other facts important to an understanding of the case...

After last November's election, I wrote that the climate in Congress would likely move to the far left, but this writer never dreamed that the Speaker of the House would try to dangerously undermine this nation's foreign policy. But that's exactly what Nancy Pelosi has done by taking off and sitting down with one of this planet's more reprehensible monsters, namely Syrian president and terror supporter Bashar Assad...

Former Shelbyville mayor Hoyte Elgin Adams, 84, of Tullahoma died Tuesday at Southern Tennessee Medical Center in Winchester. Memorial services will be held 1 p.m. Friday at First United Methodist Church in Tullahoma, where he was a member.