Stories from Thursday, January 20, 2011

With snow forecast to hit the Duck River Valley this evening, officials elected to cancel the District 9-A games between Cascade and Eagleville this afternoon. No make-up date has been scheduled.

Sweetie Pennington, 93, of Winchester died Monday at Golden Living Center in Winchester. Funeral services will be held Monday, Jan. 24 at Macedonia Baptist Church in Troy, Ala. Burial will follow at Macedonia Cemetery. J.A. Welton & Son Funeral Home of Tullahoma is in charge of arrangements.

Wendell T. Rowland, 74, of Rover died Thursday. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at St. Paul United Methodist Church in Rover. Burial will follow at Simpson Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 2-6 p.m. Saturday at Lawrence Funeral Home in Chapel Hill and beginning at 1 p.m. Sunday at the church.

Brett Colin DeSplinter, 52, of Shelbyville died Wednesday at his home after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Hillcrest Funeral Home with the Rev. Emmett Arnold officiating. Burial will follow at Willow Mount Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-9 p.m. Saturday.

William Robert Wallace, 54, of Shelbyville, formerly of Nashua, N.H., died Thursday at Heritage Medical Center after a brief illness. There are no services planned. The family chose cremation. Doak-Howell Funeral Home handled arrangements.

The Rev. Billy Ray Warren, 67, of Cullman, Ala., died Wednesday at his home. He was s Church of God pastor in Alabama and Tennessee. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday at Refuge Church of God in Cullman with the Revs. Larue Caraway and Chuck Kennedy officiating. The body will lie in state from 1-2 at the church. Visitation will be from 5:30-9 p.m. Friday at Cullman Funeral Home.

A court in Russia is demanding that a former Shelbyville resident pay $2,500 a month in child support for the care of the boy she sent back to his homeland. Meanwhile, the family at the center of the controversy has a new lawyer. Legal wrangling continues in the case of the boy returned to Moscow by adoptive mother Torry Hansen, with an official from that country now claiming that she is refusing to give up her parental rights and does not want to pay child support...

After hinting last month that it might be interested in selling the county-owned nursing home facility, the county has begun receiving inquiries, according to discussion at Tuesday night's meeting of Bedford County Board of Commissioners' courthouse and county property committee...

A federal magistrate has allowed a motion adding a medical malpractice claim to a wrongful death lawsuit against the sheriff, jailers and the county. U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan K. Lee ruled Monday that a motion to amend the complaint filed by Doris Rollins, sister of 54-year-old Larry Dale Byford, was granted...

Webb Middle's girls picked up their second victory of the season by taking down rival St. Andrew's-Sewanee 31-15 on Wednesday. The Lady Feet (2-9) jumped out to a huge 17-2 first-quarter lead and didn't slow down much from then on. "We worked since the Liberty loss on attacking the basket and pushing the ball on the fast break," first-year Webb coach Kenneth Parker said. "They did a great job of executing that tonight. We were able to go inside and made layups and free throws."...