Stories from Saturday, August 20, 2011

A Bedford County Jail inmate who ran away from a work crew was still at large Saturday, investigators said. Three eastern Shelbyville schools were placed on lockdown late Friday after Billy Ellis Gooch, 39, fled a group mowing the yard of an eastern Shelbyville school, according to officials....

Jim W. "James" Bomar III, 64, of Bell Buckle died Friday at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Doak-Howell Funeral Home with Bob Young officiating. Burial will follow at Hazel Cemetery in Bell Buckle. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Sunday.