Stories from Tuesday, April 14, 2009

A partnership between Bedford County Emergency Medical Services and Heritage Medical Center could make more and better cardiac information available to doctors while a patient is en route to the hospital. Over the past several years, BCEMS has been upgrading its cardiac monitors from older "three-lead" models to "12-lead" models, which use more electrodes to produce a much more detailed analysis of heart rhythms and function...

Donna Eyman has organized a local Tax and Spend Congress "tea party" in Shelbyville, one of thousands of similar events planned to take place around the country on Tax Day. "Anyone who is tired of excessive taxation and overspending without representation is invited to attend," she said...

TULLAHOMA -- Shelbyville Central claimed a 7-2 win over Tullahoma in a District 8-AAA matchup Monday evening. It's the Eaglettes' third win in their last four games. Trailing 2-0 going into the top of the third, Shelbyville (5-10, 2-6 8-AAA) rallied for three runs, pushed across a run in the fifth and scored three more in the sixth before the game was called due to bad weather...

Cascade and Eagleville dodged lightning and rain clouds over Wartrace on Monday to squeeze in the first half of a two-game set between two of the top teams in the District 9-A standings. The Champions bounced back from an early 2-0 deficit to win 5-2...

The North Carolina Tar Heels won the NCAA Basketball Tournament this year, but they may be no more happy about their victory than Jo Ann Bills, our local Bracket Bucks winner. "I'm very excited," she said this morning. "I want to thank the Shelbyville Times-Gazette and Kincaid Service Company for sponsoring this event for the community."...

Two men, one a student pilot, walked away after their single-engine plane crashed on the north end of the runway at Shelbyville Municipal Airport late Saturday afternoon. "They were fortunate to survive that crash," airport manager Hank Williamson said. "Skill and cunning got them through it."...

The home of the Stephen Sharp family, Warners Bridge Road, was "pretty much a total loss" following a fire reported at 10:34 p.m. Monday, a Volunteer Fire Services Inc. spokesman said this morning. The blaze's cause has not been determined, VFSI said...

Folks began going door-to-door Monday to make sure everyone is counted. The U.S. Census Bureau has launched its first major on-the-ground operation in Tennessee to prepare for the nationwide count in spring 2010. April 1 marked one year prior to Census Day. More than 3,000 census workers have begun going block-by-block across Tennessee to develop a correct and complete address list...

Mary E. Collins, 75, of Shelbyville, died Monday at Heritage Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Feldhaus Memorial Chapel.

Minnie Eliza Reed Segroves, 95, of Shelbyville, died Sunday at Glen Oaks Convalescent Center. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Shelbyville Mills Baptist Church, where she was a charter member, with the Rev. Ryan Jensen and the Rev. Jonathan Sims officiating. A private burial will be held at Willow Mount Cemetery....

Marijuana was found in a pants pocket in which a suspect allegedly kept placing his hand while being questioned Thursday, Shelbyville police said. Alberto Cardona Gaona, 34, Ranchero Drive, admitted having smoked marijuana before his arrest on multiple charges, police said. Officers reported finding 5.69 grams of marijuana...