By WOODY BAIRD / Associated Press Writer UNION CITY — Rodney Amos said he used to feel perfectly comfortable with his white co-workers — until he found a racist threat scribbled on his desk. Now he keeps looking over his shoulder. “I don’t know who did it, and that person could still be around,” said…

SPRING HILL (AP) — A vote by Saturn Corp. workers set for Sunday on the United Auto Workers’ contract with the automaker, formally ending a unique relationship between the union and the General Motors subsidiary, has been postponed. UAW Local 1853 Chairman Mike Herron said the meeting was canceled to give union members a chance…

NASHVILLE (AP) — There are no statewide races on the ballot this year and neither major presidential campaign has targeted Tennessee, but both parties will bring out their big guns. They’ll be campaigning for candidates for the state House and Senate. U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander both are expected…

By KARIN MILLER / Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE (AP) — Tennessee communities are reducing the amount of garbage in certain landfills, but are diverting some of the waste to other dumps with less state oversight, according to a new report. Overall, the state still hasn’t met a goal originally set in 1991 to reduce the…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard BOULDIN While deployment overseas in a time of war is taxing for any soldier, it is also trying for family members back home. Just ask Sgt. Tracy Bouldin.“I told my son Justin, who’s 6, that I was going to a foreign country to play Army,…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard City officials have begun combing through an estimated $17.9 million budget that includes funding for construction on Main Street and a general fund budget of about $8.8 million.Current estimates are the Main Street McMinnville economic development project will be one of the city’s big-ticket items…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard GREEN The father, teen-age mother and grandmother of a 6-week-old girl who died from asphyxiation last fall have all been charged with the baby’s death.Facing the possibility of up to 25 years in prison on aggravated child neglect charges are the baby’s father, Jesus T.…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard GALLIGAN In a tale stranger than fiction, an entire family ended up in jail in an incident which began when one family member stopped a deputy for speeding.As for what transpired to send a father, mother and their two sons to jail, and leave the…

In 13-14 year-old Babe Ruth action last week First National Bank defeated Moose Lodge 6-2.Cory Sullivan and Paul Lawson Prater pitched three innings each combining for a no-hitter for First National Bank, while Dakota Logan took the loss. For First National Casey Myers was perfect from the plate going 2 for 2. Sullivan, Cody Ray…

By Duane Sherrill So much for sure bets. My entire belief system as it pertains to professional basketball is now a travis-sham-mockery to steal a line from a popular commercial.Face it. Unless you’ve got a crystal ball tucked away in your rec-room, you didn’t see the Pistons’ 4-1 humbling of the Lakers coming. I mean,…