Stories from Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Graveside services for Merle Jacobs, 96, of Beech Grove, who died Sunday at Medical Center of Manchester, will be 9 a.m. Wednesday at Hazel Cemetery in Bell Buckle. Manchester Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Memorial services for Theresia Fischer Leichner, 95, of Shelbyville, who died June 3 at Bedford County Nursing Home, will be held 3:30 p.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church. The Rev. Dr. Lloyd Doyle will officiate. Visitation with the family will begin one hour prior to the service in the church fellowship hall...

Bedford County Emergency Medical Service is already seeing some benefit from its new Unionville station, reducing emergency response time in the fast-growing Unionville area. BCEMS Director Chad Graham told the service's board on Monday night that in May, the first full month of operation for the new station, response time within the Unionville area averaged six minutes. That is within the American Heart Association's recommended 4-6 minute response guideline for cardiac emergencies...

A driver initially stopped for allegedly loud music was arrested after a drug dog detected marijuana in his car Friday night, police said. Conard Julian Harris, 26, Shoma Drive, admitted he'd been drinking and did poorly on field sobriety tests, Officer Waymond Boyd said...

A long legal battle between the city of Shelbyville and a local paving company is continuing after Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell overruled a motion for partial summary judgment from the plaintiffs. The suit was filed nearly two and a half years ago in Bedford County Chancery Court by Tommy Wright, Norma Wright, Wright Paving Co. Inc. and Custom Stone LLC over a proposed controversial rock quarry which was turned down for approval in January of 2005...

History is up for sale to the highest bidder. On June 28, a seller using the Internet auction site eBay will offer to the highest bidder rare documents signed by such notables of history as Dwight D. Eisenhower, Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. If that's not enough to wet your whistle, how about documents signed by Napoleon Bonaparte or King George VI...

The Community Viqueens began their summer conditioning program in earnest recently by attending the Eagleville basketball camp, playing seven teams over three days. First-year coach Allison Layne has had great response to tryouts and says the team has responded well to some of the changes she's implemented...

In October of 2003, the Iron Man Triathlon celebrated its 25th anniversary with nearly 1500 athletes competing in the race. Almost four years later, smaller triathlons have expanded not only throughout the United States, but right into the heart of one Bedford countian...

Funeral services for James Dennis Moore, 69, of Shelbyville, who died Monday at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro, will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Hillcrest Funeral Home. Ora D. Walls will officiate and burial will follow in Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 4-9 p.m. Wednesday.

Funeral services for Destany Leshae Scott, seven-week-old infant daughter of Ethel Michelle Scott and Karl Kerry McCoy Jr. of Shelbyville, will be 11 a.m. Friday at Hillcrest Funeral Home. Elmer McCoy Jr. will officiate and burial will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens...