Stories from Saturday, June 10, 2006

There's a reason why they don't put parking lots behind outfield fences. The Middle Tennessee Mudcats cranked out five home runs in their doubleheader sweep of Chapel Hill's Rocket Boosts at Cascade High on Friday. In the second inning of the first game, Justin Bouldin's two-run shot over the chain links provided all the cushion the 17-under Mudcats needed in an 11-1 win...

It may be next month before the city and county get together again to hash out their differences over two taxation issues. Councilman Randy Vernon inquired about the status of the issues at the end of Thursday's city council meeting, asking if County Mayor Jimmy Woodson had responded to a letter sent to the county in April regarding the dispute...

A 15-year-old Horse Mountain Road boy and two of his friends may ride motorcycles on 44 acres between the Duck River and Wartrace Pike just west of the golf driving range, according to an agreement reached Friday at Bedford County Chancery Court. However, that's not all it will take for Matthew Smith and his friends to use the motocross track his grandfather, Reggie Smith, built for Matthew on land that Reggie says can be used for hardly anything else since it's been dug up for years as a dirt pit to provide fill dirt.. ...

A Wartrace man was seriously injured Friday morning when his tractor tumbled over him on a steep hillside. Connell Frizzell, 68, was flown from near the scene, off State Highway 64 near Wartrace, to Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Frizzell suffered pelvic, back and internal injuries, Wartrace police chief Billy Smith said...

ARNOLD AFB -- Arnold Engineering Development Center reorganized its Air Force personnel into groups and squadrons this month, recognizing the change at a ceremony on Friday at the J-6 solid rocket motor test facility. The Air Force Materiel Command, of which AEDC is a part, has been replacing its current directorates and divisions with a structure more like that used by the rest of the Air Force...

Donnie C. Anderson. 65, of Shelbyville died Friday at Bedford County Medical Center. Graveside services will be held Tuesday at Holden Cemetery with Herbert Stewart officiating. J.A. Welton & Son Funeral Home of Tullahoma is in charge of arrangements.

Funeral services for Charles Kenneth Outlaw, 56, of Shelbyville, who died Friday at Marshall Medical Center in Lewisburg, will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Gowen-Smith Chapel with Randall Harmon officiating. Burial will follow at New Hope Cemetery.

Brice Prince, 90, of Wartrace died Friday at Bedford County Nursing Home. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Tullahoma Funeral Home with Jason Sells officiating. Burial will follow in Maplewood Cemetery.