Bedford County News

A man Shelbyville police wanted to question is no longer a "person of interest" in the investigation of the shooting death of a man discovered Monday.

When the Duck River Clean-Up project first began 12 years ago, Wayne Bomar said he couldn't travel 200 feet on his river boat without seeing trash that needed to be cleaned up.

The Rutherford County Election today received word that Gov. Phil Bredesen has set dates to hold special elections regarding the vacancy created by the resignation of Curt Cobb from the Tennessee House of Representatives, District 62.

A man accused of trying to run down his wife with a dump truck faces charges of domestic violence and reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon.

Within 30 days, Bedford County Nursing Home will be under new management. In a special called meeting Tuesday evening, the county commission passed a resolution approving a lease agreement with Christian Care Center of Shelbyville, a subsidiary of Johnson City-based Care Centers Management Consultants.

Democratic state Rep. Curt Cobb announced Wednesday that he is resigning from his seat in the Legislature to take a judicial position in Bedford County.

Call it a case of assault with a cheesy weapon. Deputies in Shelbyville, Tennessee, were dispatched to a home where they found a couple fighting with Cheetos.

Authorities in the US said a couple got into a fight using Cheetos. The Bedford County Sheriff's Department in Tennessee said a 40-year-old man and 44-year-old woman became involved in a "verbal altercation". Somehow, the orange puffy snacks were used in the assault.

"A local couple arrested on domestic assault charges Sunday had an unusual choice of alleged weaponry -- Cheetos.

The mayor of Moore County died Thursday afternoon in a single-car crash approximately two miles south of Flat Creek on State Highway 82 South.

The Tennessee Department of Health is conducting an investigation to identify anyone exposed to rabies through contact with a puppy in the Rockvale area.

Authorities in Shelbyville say a couple got into a fight using orange puffy snacks.

Moore County Mayor Peggy Gattis was killed in a car crash Thursday afternoon. Officials with the Tennessee Highway Patrol confirmed that Gattis was killed in crash on Highway 82 in Bedford County.

Bedford Builds Habitat for Humanity received almost $17,000 from the state to go toward the building of a Habitat home this year.

The driver of a tractor-trailer, which was found unoccupied in a ditch on Harts Chapel Road on Saturday afternoon, was under the influence of methamphetamines at the time of the crash, Shelbyville police said.

A consultant from the University of Tennessee's County Technical Assistance Service told Bedford County commission members on Tuesday that moving prisoners into the old Bedford County Medical Center building on Union Street would not be the financial boon that had been informally projected last month.

An alleged fight between two women led to a fight between their husbands in which one was seriously wounded Tuesday night, Shelbyville police said.

At 11:30 a.m. the body of man in his mid 20s was found at Bonnaroo. The clean-up crew found the deceased at a campsite in a single-person tent.

Ruth Wendling was singing, and Kati O'Grady was accompanying her on the banjo while folks around them ate fried chicken and tamales, played horseshoes and bocce.

With the mayor breaking a tie vote, Depot Street will soon be running the other way -- towards the public square -- for a 60 trial period, after a discussion between Shelbyville city council members Thursday.