Stories from Thursday, March 11, 2010

Thomas Lewis Overcast, 87, of Shelbyville died Thursday at Golden Living Center in Winchester. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Gowen-Smith Chapel with Phillip Lane officiating. Burial, with military honors, will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Friday.

Maedean Parker Barber, 72, of Nashville died Wednesday at Baptist Hospital. Graveside services will be held at 2:15 p.m. Saturday at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens with the Rev. Ronnie Johnson officiating. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m.

Developers of a local subdivision are claiming that the Bedford County Utility District (BCUD) and an engineering firm conspired to commit fraud in order to require them to upgrade a water line. Mark and Mike Clanton filed a lawsuit in Bedford County Circuit Court last week against BCUD, the utility's general manager, Martin Davis, the engineering firm Highers, Koonce & Associates, Inc. ...

Bedford County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday night to give up to $60,000, depending on whether or not the City of Shelbyville participates, for a railroad spur to serve a potential industry which is looking at the old DESA Industries building on Eagle Boulevard...

Emergency communications units from local, state and federal agencies operating in Middle Tennessee gathered this week at the Tennessee Fire Service and Codes Enforcement Academy for an exercise designed to improve inter-agency communications in the case of a major disaster or other emergency...

A settlement was reached this week in the case of a National Guardsman accused of stalking a minor. Andy Lynn Wallace, 35, of Nashville Highway, Lewisburg, entered a guilty plea Tuesday to a single charge of misdemeanor stalking, amended from a charge of aggravated stalking...

No suspicious money was found nor charges filed against a woman accused of stealing a purse and money Tuesday at the state driver's license testing center on Railroad Avenue, Shelbyville police said. The purse was left on a chair while its owner took a driver's license test, a report filed by Officer Bruce Davis said. ...

STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Four years ago, former Shelbyville Central Golden Eagle basketball standout and Class AAA Mr. Basketball recipient Barry Stewart decided to further his education as well as his basketball career at Mississippi State University. That decision turned out to be great for both Stewart and Mississippi State...

Armando Perez Diaz, 27, of Shelbyville died Friday, March 5 at Alive Hospice at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville. Funeral services will be held at 8 p.m. Friday at Feldhaus Memorial Chapel with David Carrera officiating. Burial will be in Tzajala Chiapas, Mexico, at a later date. Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. Friday.

William Jerry Dennis, 68, of Fayetteville died Tuesday. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Tommy Dye and the Rev. Robert Payne officiating. Burial will follow at Booneville Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3-9 p.m. Friday.