Bedford County News Archives

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

Investigators with the United States Marshal Service and the Chattanooga Police Department on Thursday night arrested a man Thursday wanted for a murder that occurred in Shelbyville.

More information has been released by Shelbyville police about a fraud case involving a local man.

There are new developments in the murder of a Shelbyville man. 24-year old George Aaron "G" Simpson from Murfreesboro has been arrested by Murfreesboro Police.

WARTRACE, Tenn.- The issue of liquor has sparked much debate in one Bedford County town.

The incident occurred on Highway 231 in Bedford County. Arrest reports indicate that Shipley had been drinking vodka and taking Lortab, a powerful painkiller, prior to driving.

Harriet Neiman believes that if justice had been served in Bedford County 15 years ago, certain children might not have been abused in Alabama last year. Neiman is the mother of the teenage boy Dr. Michael Roy Sharpe allegedly slapped in the Bedford County Medical Center emergency room on Dec. 20, 1994.

An inmate at Bedford County Workhouse died at a Nashville hospital after suffering an apparent heart attack Monday morning, officials said Tuesday.

A former Vanderbilt professor who pleaded guilty in Shelbyville of contacting a teen over the Internet for sex has been deported to his home country of New Guinea.

One man is dead and his twin brother may face charges following an accident early Saturday night on Midland Road north of Shelbyville, investigators said.

This pretty girl was found somewhere in the Fairfield Pike Beechwood Rd. area of Bell Buckle on Saturday.

A new foundation has been formed to help local cancer patients, and its concept is different from the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life.

A former Shelbyville physician is facing charges of rape and sodomy in Alabama.

Bedford County Board of Commissioners approved budget amendments for the school system and the county general budget during a relatively short and uneventful meeting on Tuesday night.

Shelbyville trucking business owner Pat Marsh, a Republican, captured a special election Tuesday for the vacated House 62nd District seat, giving the state GOP a little wider majority.

Two men were arrested, one on drug charges, after foot pursuits by Shelbyville police in the Colloredo Boulevard-Union Street area Sunday night.

Polls remain open until 7 p.m. today at normal precinct locations for the special election to fill the 62nd District state House seat.

Dr. Michael Roy Sharpe was fired from three Tennessee hospitals — twice when he was accused of sexual misconduct — but was allowed to set up a pediatrics practice in Alabama, where he is now accused of having sex with a 15-year-old patient.

Bedford County Planning Commission approved a site plan for the planned Dollar General store at 3225 U.S. 231 North in Deason, and also approved a change in the county's subdivision regulations which was proposed several months ago as a result of the development.

A total of 2,638 early and absentee votes were cast in Bedford County for the special election to fill the 62nd District state House seat, according to Adminstrator of Elections Summer Leverette.

Shelbyville is without a city manager. In a 4-2 vote, the Shelbyville City Council voted to fire city manager Ed Craig Thursday evening.

Jostens, 1401 Union St. in Shelbyville, is holding its first annual Fall Festival on Saturday.

A Shelbyville fireman has been suspended from his job and was expected to be fired this morning following his arrest on Wednesday, city officials said.

Even after 65 years, Bertrand LeJemtel can still smell the bombs and hear the shells "whistling close to your ears." The French native was 5 years old and living less than a mile from the beaches of Normandy when the American soldiers stormed them on D-Day, including 19 from Bedford who died during the first wave.

Webb School plans to host a town hall meeting Tuesday for the three candidates vying for the state House District 62 seat.

The blue "stimulus" signs are up on U.S. 41-A South, signaling that work is now ongoing on the long-awaited construction of State Route 437 .

A Bedford County jury found two men guilty Tuesday of helping to run an illegal poker house in Shelbyville last year.