Hot Wheels Skate Center and Rubley’s Nursery advanced in the losers’ bracket of the 9- and 10-year-old Cal Ripken league tournament Monday night.Rubley’s, the regular season champions, downed Dependable Brakes 11-5, while Hot Wheels was a 14-7 winner over the West Side Auto Scrappers.In Rubley’s win, Justin Ware pitched three innings to pick up the…

Katie Rogers of Cumberland Bank, left, puts the tag on Tikeshia Martin (1) of K&R Vending after Martin tried to seal second base during the fifth inning of Monday’s game. (Dale Stubblefield photo) Monday night the girls 13-15-year-old fastpitch league crowned its season champs as Cumberland Bank defeated K&R Vending 4-0.Cumberland ended its season with…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Players and coaches from Walker’s Landscaping and Sod Farm celebrate their championship victory Saturday afternoon in the 5- and 6-year-old girls coach-pitch softball league. (Rob Nunley photo) Walker’s Sod Farm captured the championship in the girls 5- and 6-year-old coach-pitch league Saturday, winning the one-day,…

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McMinnville resident and Putnam County native Olin Steele, 86, died June 27 at River Park Hospital after an extended illness.A retired employee of BRC and a member of the Assembly of God, he served his county in the U.S. Army during World War II.The son of the late Loftus and Oma Smith Steele; he was…

Gainesboro resident and Jackson County native Jimmy Ray Heady, 58, died June 27 at Cookeville Regional Medical Center.A road construction worker and a member of the Church of Christ, he served his country in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.The son of the late Perry Frank and Bonnie Opal Denton Heady, he was preceded…

Spencer resident and Van Buren County native Ella Mae Allen, 66, died June 28 at Generations in Spencer after a six-month illness.A factory worker and a member of the Church of God, she was the daughter of the late Willie and Maggie McDaniel Allen.She is survived by brother and sister-in-law, J.L. and Diana Allen of…

Ypsilanti, Mich., resident and DeKalb County native Earlene E. Woods, 86, died June 27.A former McMinnville resident, she was an employee of Fisher Body Livonia plant for 23 years, retiring in 1978, and was a member of Ypsilanti Church of Christ.The daughter of Preston J. and Flossie M. Turner Cantrell, she was preceded in death…

MURFREESBORO (AP) — Rutherford County’s sheriff has sued the county after $5.5 million in funding for his department was not included in next year’s budget. In the lawsuit, filed Monday in Rutherford County Circuit Court, Sheriff Truman Jones asks for approximately $9 million to hire 94 new sheriff’s department employees and 49 jail workers. The…

By LYNDA EDWARDS / Associated Press Writer JACKSON, Miss. — Nissan Motor Company has sent almost 200 engineers from its Tokyo headquarters to solve problems consumers are reporting with vehicles made at its plants in Canton and in Smyrna, Tenn. Nissan communications director Fred Standish said Tuesday that engineers would also visit Nissan supplier plants,…