Stories from Wednesday, October 28, 2009

More information has been released by Shelbyville police about a fraud case involving a local man. The victim told police he received a letter claiming he was the third place winner in the Reader's Digest Sweepstakes Lottery. Enclosed with the letter, which said he had won $60,000, was a check for $2,777 to cover taxes and fees associated with claiming the prize, police said...

Bedford County School Superintendent Ed Gray told members of Bedford County Financial Management Committee Tuesday night that it would have been "fiscally irresponsible" to give school system employees the same $400 bonus received by other county employees, because of the school system's extremely tight fund balance...

A weapon possibly used in last Friday's fatal shooting of Gary LeTron Thomison of Shelbyville was recovered Tuesday in Murfreesboro, while officers continue to seek another man who was allegedly at the scene of the crime. Two guns, one a .45 caliber handgun, were recovered from the Murfreesboro residence where George Aaron "G" Simpson, 24, was arrested early Tuesday, according to a Murfreesboro Police Department arrest report provided to the Times-Gazette by The Daily News Journal...

In their season opener, Liberty Middle's girls took down Moore County Middle 39-11 in a physical contest in Lynchburg on Tuesday night. Hannah Calvert notched 10 points and five steals to lead the Lady Patriots. Jacey Holt, Kimme Bayne and Matti Mitchell scored six apiece...

One of the Times-Gazette bloggers, Bo Melson, asked a question online the other day about when are you too old to go trick or treating? The answers were varied and funny and it brought to mind a funny column by the late great humorist and mom, Erma Bombeck. The one part I remember best was along the lines of "If you can drive yourself from house to house, you're too old to be trick-or-treating."...

Martha Jackson Salituro, 88, of Tullahoma died Tuesday at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville after a short illness. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Edward Erickson officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m.

Bedford County native Fred Davis plays a key role in supervising a big project. How big? Ten billion dollars big. No, that wasn't a misprint. Billon, with a "B." Davis, a program manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is supervising the project managers constructing what amounts to a new high-rise city at U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys, about 50 miles south of Seoul, Korea...

It was midmorning and drizzly, so there were few people wandering down Riverwalk Park that day. One man, in a police uniform, walked across the soccer field calmly. Seconds later, a blur of black and brown flew after him and sank its teeth into his arm...

SPRING HILL -- Clinging to a 5-3 lead, it looked like Cascade was on its way to another postseason upset, this time versus Spring Hill in the Region 6-A/AA tournament semifinals. But, the Lady Raiders trounced on the Lady Champions' dreams with a trio of unanswered goals to win 6-5 amidst sheets of rain on a cold and dreary Tuesday evening...