Bedford County News

"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.

Bedford County deputies made several arrests after discovering two methamphetamine labs on Monday, one with fumes so powerful that three officers required medical attention.

SHELBYVILLE, Tenn.- Deputies in Bedford County this week busted two meth labs. One of them reportedly had fumes so powerful, three officers had to go to the hospital.

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.