By ROB NUNLEY McMinnville Aluminum and Vinyl Supply ran its perfect record in the boys? 7- and 8-year-old coach-pitch league to 5-0 Tuesday, downing Quality Mold 22-1. Nine of the 10 players who batted for MAVS got at leasdt two hits, including Samuel Hillis, who finished 4-for-4 with four runs scored. Gavin Gunter, Chandler Hobbs,…

By DUANE SHERRILL A man who injured a woman?s eye as she was trying to stop him from driving drunk will serve 240 days behind bars. The defendant, Norberto Ortiz Chavez, 43, entered a guilty plea before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to charges of aggravated assault and driving on a revoked license. He was…

By LISA HOBBS Memorial Day is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation?s service. A Veterans Memorial Celebration is scheduled for tomorrow at the National Guard Armory to do just that. Morrison First Baptist Church and Living Waters Church will be holding the event. ?We are thankful that we are…

By DUANE SHERRILL Motorists traveling through McMinnville should take notice and buckle up over Memorial Day weekend as police will be aggressively enforcing the seatbelt law while at the same time saturating the streets looking for drunk drivers. ?Instead of holding roadblocks, which can be effective but are limited to just a couple of areas,…

By JAMES CLARK A Smithville man appears to have escaped serious injury after his SUV went airborne, jumped another car, and was spun around Wednesday night on Smithville Highway. Jeremy Lockridge, 33, was airlifted from the scene in front of Delores? Market after losing control of his 2007 Chevy Blazer. According to highway patrolman Gary…

By LISA HOBBS Elected officials are considering a proposal that would raise garbage collection and disposal for customers in the solid waste 2007-2008 budget. The added fees would increase revenue by $50,000. The current fee is for solid waste, which appears on water bills as $10.50 per month, per residence. The fee represents three different…

By JAMES CLARK Warren County native Gordon Woodlee plays a preacher with a speaking part in the film ?Tenebrous.? Sammy Doak doesn?t normally get punched in the stomach six or seven times a day. But that?s what happened Wednesday afternoon as filming for the movie ?Tenebrous? continued in downtown McMinnville. Playing Marty Sheck, Doak stood…

A man shot in the chest during a confrontation on The Strip last month told the court Tuesday he intended to disarm the man who had a gun pointed at his head. The victim, Timothy L. Blakely, testified during preliminary hearing Tuesday before General Sessions Judge Larry Ross, that he could see the hand of…

By Drew Johnson Imagine standing at the register at your neighborhood Kroger. The cashier scans your last item and announces your total, ?$78.34, please.? You hand her a $100 bill and she pulls your change ? $21.66 ? from the register. But instead of giving it to you, she stuffs the cash into her pocket.…

By Duane Sherrill While I try not to repeat myself, it sometimes becomes inevitable to rehash certain things, especially when there are a lot of questions surrounding a certain topic. About three years ago I did a column explaining judicial and pre-trial diversions, how they work and who can qualify for them. Recently, with diversion…