Stories from Saturday, August 20, 2011

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.

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....