Stories from Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Cornell Cody Williams, 59, of Dade City, Fla., formerly of Shelbyville, died Tuesday at Pasco County Regional Medical Center in Dade City. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Steve Powell officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday.

County Mayor Eugene Ray announced Wednesday afternoon a gathering of County Commission and Shelbyville City Council members at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in one of the classrooms at Middle Tennessee Education Center, in the Medical Arts Building on Dover Street...

Hollis Edwin Hasty, 85, of Shelbyville died Monday at Christian Care Center of Shelbyville. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with Dr. Tom Rousseau and John Goodrich officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will be held Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Hillcrest Funeral Home.

Basil Rex Fletcher, 86, of Manchester died Sunday at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Manchester Funeral Home with David Fletcher, Gordon Matthews and Ted Kell officiating. Burial followed at Rose Hill Memorial Gardens.

I've decided I'm not going to read or watch movie reviews anymore. Twice this weekend watched movies that had been panned by the so-called experts -- and I loved both of them. One was "Julie and Julia," which I only watched because I loved Julia Child, even though I can't stand Meryl Steep...

A group of teenagers characterized by a Shelbyville police detective as "tormenting the city" is suspected in an attack on a Shelbyville church last week. "We suspect it's these juveniles that have been tormenting the city for the past month or so," Detective Sgt. Brian Crews said of a burglary and vandalism at Lighthouse Independent Church of God, Greenwood Avenue. It's the latest in a series of burglaries and vandalism to churches and businesses in central and eastern Shelbyville...

Murder suspect David E. Niles has a new attorney and a new court date. Niles, 24, who is charged with first degree murder in connection with the shooting death of 26-year-old Laura Parker, is due back in Bedford County General Sessions Court on March 9...

Snow has hampered the search for the remains of a cattle herd authorities claim have been starved, while more live cows are being cared for. Meanwhile, the man sheriff's officials say is responsible for the dead animals is free on bonds totalling over $1 million and new autopsy results have confirmed the cause of death to be starvation...

Residents of Bedford County will be able to start recycling their latex paint later this spring, when a facility will be opened to the public. Solid Waste Coordinator Gay Ervin told the Solid Waste Authority Thursday that everything has been worked out with Shelbyville public works director Mark Clanton, who highway superintendant Stanley Smotherman said went "above and beyond to help the county."...

Bedford County Sheriff Randall Boyce disagreed Tuesday night with County Commission member J.D. "Bo" Wilson over whether the county had a choice about keeping state felons in the local jail. Bedford County does not have a contract with the state for accepting state felons, and so the state cannot and does not send the local felons from elsewhere. But there are some locally-sentenced felons who are kept in the jail, with the state paying the county a certain amount to keep them...

A dog helped break up a domestic dispute at a Shelbyville home over the weekend, police said. Adam Liopaldo Bravo, 21, Earnhart Street, allegedly hit a female acquaintance in the head, leaving a knot, put his fist through walls several times and smashed furniture at a Fairway Green Drive home early Valentine's Day morning...

I was really excited about getting an invitation to Google Wave a few months back -- and I was sure that Wave was going to take off and become an Internet phenomenon. So much for my prognostication skills. It's too early to pronounce Wave dead, but it hasn't taken off the way I thought it would. It may yet do so; there could still be some particular use of the product, as yet undefined, that will turn it from a novelty into a necessity...

MURFREESBORO -- Shelbyville Central entered with the vision of an upset at third-ranked Riverdale but the Golden Eaglettes were outscored 17-10 in the fourth quarter and lost 60-48 in the regular season finale for both teams Tuesday night. "If we're climbing a mountain, we're just a short distance from the top," Shelbyville coach Lynn Burkey said. "This team has improved throughout the regular season, and I think they will make it to the top at tournament time when it's most important."...

MURFREESBORO -- Shelbyville Central closed out the regular season in disappointing fashion in a 56-41 loss at Riverdale on Tuesday night. The Golden Eagle offense struggled to find any consistency throughout the game while the effort on defense could be questioned as well, especially in the second half...