Bedford County News

Pete Souphom of Shelbyville Fire Department was one of 22 graduates of the 22nd graduating class at Tennessee Fire Service and Codes Enforcement Academy on Friday.

The Bedford County Sheriff's Department has a message for those out there who drink and drive: We're coming for you.

A man who law enforcement claims fired a gun into a home where an infant was sleeping last year was arrested on Tuesday.

A Lewisburg man who was arrested nine months ago on charges of soliciting and stalking a minor was indicted by Bedford County grand jury Monday.

Tennessee moved out of the bottom five most unhealthy states in the nation, thanks to residents' avoidance of binge drinking and willingness to be vaccinated and eat their veggies.

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. - A former youth minister accused of stealing thousand of dollars from his church will spend the next nine months in jail.

A sex offender is headed back to prison for victimizing children. David Wayne Phillips has pleaded guilty in Bedford County to multiple counts of rape of a child, sexual battery and violation of the sex offender registry.

The county's solid waste authority voted Thursday to seek a judgement against a scrap metal dealer who is over $10,000 behind in payments for recycling.

Bedford County's Veterans Day Parade will begin at 6 tonight along the normal parade route.

Just more than a year ago, my wife and I were driving on the beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway in our native state of Virginia enjoying the fall colors.

Bedford County Mayor Eugene Ray said Tuesday night that the county is not in the same fiscal shape as the State of Tennessee, which is anticipating layoffs or other drastic cost-saving measures, or some other counties which did not budget as conservatively.

Bedford County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday night to contribute $3,100 for bus rental so that local National Guard troops can spend Christmas with their families this year before shipping out to Iraq in 2010.

They are cousins and both are part of the 269th Military Police Company that returned to Murfreesboro Saturday after deployment in Iraq.

A tow operator who is suing the city of Shelbyville made more claims of favoritism Tuesday, calling for the firing of the police chief and his deputy.

"Keep working, there's still time!" said Alexi Gordon. "Five, four, three, two, one ... time's up!" Ashleigh Sims and her partner Justin Strickler put their markers down, the last ones in the group to do so, using every minute of time allotted to complete their exercise.

That didn't keep dozens of children from going, though, and they ran from booth to booth to play games, get their faces painted, and learn more about keeping themselves safe.

The letter grades apply to schools with students in fourth through eighth grades and are meant to describe the success of a school or school system in providing value added -- the difference between what a student knows this year and what that student knew a year earlier, as measured by the annual TCAP tests.

An open house will take place Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. so the public can take a look at what's been done and perhaps chip in with ideas of their own.

A Bedford County woman was charged Friday with TennCare fraud related to prescription drugs.

The main suspect in last Friday's shooting death of Gary LeTron Thomison has confessed, and another man Shelbyville police said they previously considered a suspect faces a lesser charge.