Stories from Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Funeral services for Annie Weaver Williamson, 75, of Unionville, who died Monday at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro, will be held 11 a.m. Thursday at Hillcrest Funeral Home. The Rev. Tommy Dye will officiate and burial will follow in Pressgrove Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be 4-8 p.m. Wednesday.

BERKELEY, Calif. -- Tennessee took great pride in introducing California to Southeastern Conference football last season. The Golden Bears from the Pac-10 returned the courtesy on Saturday night. In fact, the 45-31 shellacking they laid on the Volunteers (0-1) may have even been more impressive than Tennessee's season-opening win in Knoxville a year ago...

CORNERSVILLE -- Community's Zach Haynes opened the game with a crunching hit on ball carrier A.J. Smith and the Vikings started as if they would follow a well scripted plot to success on Friday night against Cornersville. Haynes' hit off the corner set the early pace for the defense as they swarmed Cornersville's offense to force a three-and-out after a bad snap sailed over the punter's head at the Bulldog 28...

A voluntary recall involving pies sold at Shelbyville's Kroger store was announced over the weekend. American Pie, LLC, has voluntarily recalling 1440 cases of its Marie Callender Turtle Pies with date codes 07 (from military time 11:45 up to and including 16:00) 143 because the product was inadvertently shipped prior to the company obtaining satisfactory microbial test results...

The 200th birthday of Bedford County is only months away and the final preparations for the book commemorating that history are in the final stages at the Times-Gazette. "We are taking the month of September to complete the historical editorial and pictorial pages of the Bicentennial Book," said managing editor of the T-G, René A. ...

Trainer Jimmy McConnell. left, and his wife Gayle joined owners Lee Wall and Mike McGartland following the successful conclusion of 69th annual Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration for the Master of Jazz team on Saturday night. The black roan stallion topped 12 entries to achieve the World Grand Champion title that marked McConnell's second WGC in three years having won in 2004 on Black Night Shade. ...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon received recognition for his ongoing efforts to curb underage drinking and drunk driving. The Century Council, a non-profit organization funded by American distillers, honored Gordon for his support last year of H.R. ...

ETOWAH -- You can't turn a train on a dime, and so the 540-degree spiral known as "The Loop" is gentle enough not to seem like a spiral at all, until the conductor or one of the guides directs your gaze out the left side windows. There, a few yards below, running parallel to the train, is the track on which you were traveling just a few minutes earlier....

Former Bell Buckle teacher Carremaye Evans Manley, 99, of Murfreesboro died Sunday. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Woodfin Memorial Chapel in Murfreesboro with the Rev. Martha Touchton officiating. Burial will follow at Beech Grove Cemetery...

David Harrell Turner, 67, of Shelbyville died Aug. 27 at his home after an extended illness. Memorial services will be held 7 p.m. Thursday at Bell Buckle United Methodist Church, where he was a member, with the Rev. Beth Ezell officiating. Hillcrest Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...