Stories from Thursday, May 17, 2007

Funeral services for Georgia H. Miller Ray, 86, of Bell Buckle, who died Sunday, were held this morning at Bowie Chapel Church in McCool, Miss. Doak-Howell Funeral Home was in charge of local arrangements. Doak-Howell Funeral Home is assisting the family locally.

When Bedford County first started a 9-1-1 dispatch center in the 1980s, the two boards that controlled it were composed primarily of the heads of the local emergency departments which rely on the center. Some of those department heads were more active in attending board meetings than others, which led to problems when the boards didn't have the quorum they needed to conduct business. ...

U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon voted Tuesday for a bill he says will help Tennessee's communities get the resources and personnel they need to fight and prosecute crime. On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation to reauthorize the Community Oriented Policing Services, or COPS, grant program. The bill aims to add 50,000 new police officers nationally over the next six years though the COPS hiring grants program...

Beth Peissig of Shelbyville has joined the Times-Gazette as an advertising intern, announced T-G advertising manager Sandra "Sissy" Smith. Peissig will be involved in all aspects of the department, from sales to support of the advertising staff to assembling media kits...

Something old is new again on the home building front. Architecture, like icing on a cake, is the signature of the creator. The design may be the same as hundreds of others but the styling of the accents in the construction separates the norm from the extraordinary...

Victory appeared to be in hand. Cascade held a narrow 1-0 lead over Nashville Christian in the Region 5-A championship, and senior starting pitcher Tyler Bowman was tossing the pill as good as he had all season, allowing but three baserunners through five innings...