Stories from Saturday, September 12, 2009

NASHVILLE (AP) -- An appeals court is giving death row inmate Gregory Thompson another chance to prove he had ineffective counsel at trial. Thompson was convicted in August 1985 of abducting former Times-Gazette reporter Brenda Blanton Lane from a Shelbyville Wal-Mart parking lot in January of that year, driving her to a rural area in Coffee County and killing her with a rusty butcher knife...

Jerry J. Naron, 65, of Shelbyville died Friday at Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Geoff Geisemann and the Rev. Donnie Jones officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery...

Dorothy Clanton "Dot" Molder, 83, of Shelbyville died Friday. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m, Monday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with Kevin Minchey and Drew Hayes officiating and her grandson, Charles "Chaz" Molder, assisting. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery in Shelbyville...