A new contest for all you sports enthusiasts starts Wednesday in the Southern Standard. The “Central Oil Sports Trivia Challenge” will test your mind each week with a chance to win 10 gallons of free gas if you can provide the correct answer.Each week a new question will appear on the front page of the…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Warren County Middle School Lady Pioneer softball squad traveled to Murfreesboro Friday to take on Central Middle to open its season, but fell short in the contest, losing 11-3.Central Middle scored four runs in the first ending with five hits off WCMS pitcher Ashley McBee.…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The Boyd Lady Broncos played their first home game Thursday against Watertown, falling 14-4 in five innings.Amber Hodge hit the mound for the Lady Broncos and gave up two runs off four hits in the first inning. Boyd struck back in the bottom of the…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Warren County’s bats sprang to life with a pair of big wins in the Wilson County Invitational tournament Thursday.The Pioneers combined for 12 hits to slap a 13-1 loss on Wilson Central, then traveled a few miles down the road to Lebanon to defeat Macon…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A meth lab was found Friday in the same building which houses Marc’s Market, located between the densely populated Cotten and Buckingham apartment complexes.The suspect, James Johnston, was arrested on meth manufacturing charges Friday afternoon after McMinnville Police Narcotics Investigator Tony Jenkins found what is…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 28-person docket was heard Thursday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions traffic court.Included in court action:• Robert W. Conoway was ordered to serve 150 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence, pay $50 plus costs, forfeit his driver’s license for three years and have…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard SULLIVAN An accused murderer wants out of Warren County Jail, claiming he has no privacy at the local facility.Braddie Eric Sullivan, 35, said he has good reason to suspect his privacy is being infringed since a deputy overheard his alleged confession to his attorney last…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard SIMMONS The youth minister accused of molesting members of his congregation will be tried in Warren County.The defendant, Jeffery Simmons, 37, had asked the court to change venue in his case, which was set to go to trial next month. Simmons maintained the pre-trial publicity…

Sue Smith says the secret to raising responsible children is, there is no secret. It’s obvious, though, she and her husband, James, have done something right in raising their five children: Janey, 23, Becky, 22, Sandy, 20, and twins Brent and Trent, who are 18.Janey and Becky graduated from Motlow College and are students at…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A local teen busted for shoplifting in Murfreesboro has linked himself and two of his friends to last month’s break-in at Kwik Kash Pawn in which several guns were stolen.The suspects, whose names are being withheld by police due to their underage status, are all…