Stories from Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Walter C. Hamilton Sr., 72, of Tullahoma died Monday at Harton Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at noon Saturday at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Tullahoma. Burial will follow at Evergreen Cemetery. A memorial musical program will be held at 7 p.m. Friday and visitation will be from 10 a.m.-noon Saturday at the church. J.A. Welton & Son Funeral Home, Tullahoma, is in charge of arrangements.

Shelbyville Senior American Legion Post 23 rebounded from a slow start to its Tuesday afternoon to win 6-2 in the second game of a doubleheader against the Williamson County Generals. Southpaw Josh Brown got the start on the hill for Post 23. He went three strong innings before giving way to the bullpen amidst temperatures nearing triple digits. Kyle Mullins pitched the fourth frame. Zach Bailey closed the game out in the fifth...

The summer basketball season and Shelbyville Team Camp No. 2 are coming to a close today. However, high school teams from different parts of Tennessee and Alabama graced the hardwood for a full slate of games Tuesday. Shelbyville Central will not participate in today's contests but did host a pair of games Tuesday...

Buzz's internet adventures have always been fairly tame. I keep track of caches, cookies and other electronic means of spying on my surfers because, well, they're guys. Two of them past puberty, one of them roaring right up on it. A mom and a wife has to be alert to what's happening to her fellas in cyberspace...

There is an old saying in the acting world that you should never share the stage with kids or dogs because they'll always steal the scene. Someone should have told Diesel the Dog not to share the stage with Jerry Winsett. I always know I'm going to get a huge laugh when he shows up, but I'm never quite sure what directions it's going to come from. He can droop a subtle eyebrow and wave extravagant arms in comic gesture, but he's always going to make me laugh...

A television set and DVD player was stolen from a Wheel Road man after he was lured away from his home last week, the Bedford County Sheriff's Department reported. The victim was asked to ride with another man to a convenience store, Deputy Lindsey Puckett said. Once they arrived at the store, Puckett said, the suspect drove away by himself...

The Tennessee Supreme Court has denied an appeal by a former inmate of the Bedford County Jail who claimed he was sexually assaulted by a guard in 2001 and 2002. Christopher Jones had filed a suit against Bedford County in 2002 for negligent supervision of a corrections officer, who was accused of sexually assaulting Jones while he was incarcerated in the Bedford County Jail...

Prosecutors say that a man facing aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault charges will either be bound over to the grand jury next month or have a date set for a hearing. Larry Dean Meek, 25, Cates Street, was in court for a second time Tuesday following an alleged attack on his ex-girlfriend in February that followed an argument over $50...

A Shelbyville woman convicted of prostitution has lost her case with the state's criminal court of appeals that challenged the evidence and a judge's sentencing. In 2008, Patty Sue Lawrence, was convicted of two counts of prostitution, a Class B misdemeanor, and one count of submitting a false police report, a Class D felony, and was sentenced by Circuit Court Judge Lee Russell to three years in prison following a jury trial...

Bedford County Financial Management Committee reviewed a proposed county budget Tuesday night, and made changes to it, but passed it along to the full county commission without actually endorsing it. The budget makes no change in county tax rates, which would remain the same as in the current fiscal year: $2.27 per $100 assessed value...

The kids crowding the Calsonic Arena and the Celebration grounds this week have more in common than their love of horses and horsemanship. Each and every one is a member of a 4-H club somewhere in Tennessee. The Tennessee State 4-H Horse Championships are being held this week, ending Saturday, as kids from 13 to 18 gather to demonstrate their skills and knowledge...

Lewis W. "Cotton" Gilliam, 68, of Estill Springs died Wednesday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Paul Sweeton officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Lebanon Methodist Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Friday.

YouTube has now introduced an online editing site, for people who want to do very simple video editing. To use the site, at youtube.com/editor, you must first upload all of the individual video clips to YouTube. You may want to upload the individual clips under the "private" setting, since you don't necessarily want to make your raw footage public. ...

Glen Wayne "Greasy" McAnally, 69, of Shelbyville died Tuesday at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville. Funeral Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Bill Rhoton officiating. Burial will follow at Hillcrest Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be from 5-9 p.m. Thursday.