By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Tragedy struck a Murfreesboro family with Warren County ties last Thursday when their three children were killed in a crash in Lake County near Orlando, Fla., where they were visiting relatives.According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the accident happened Thursday afternoon when Kimberly Anne Eischeid,…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard MYERS Warren County and surrounding areas may get a second shot at receiving federal disaster funds in the wake of two damaging floods which have cost the county over a quarter million dollars.According to Warren County Emergency Management Director Richard Myers, an appeal is in…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard BOBBY COX It appears Warren County won’t have to pay $95,000 an acre for land located next to the current jail — or even close to that amount.Based on a recent sale of 32 acres located directly across from land the county is seeking to purchase,…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard GINN A local man has been charged with murdering a visitor at his home Sunday morning and then staging a scene to make it look like the killing was in self-defense.The victim, Robert Alan Webb Jr., 25, was found dead in the driveway by deputies…

Thurman Christian, Bobby E. Campbell, Robert Allen Webb Jr., Royce Brentley Medley, Lauren Michelle Eischeid, Savannah Marie Eischeid, 11 months, and Blake Anthony Eischeid, William Fred Smith, Georgia Vandergriff, Howard (Ace) Waldron, Daisy Loring Webb, Mildred M. (Blackie ) Penry Thurman Christian, 73Rock Island resident and Warren County native Thurman Christian, 73, died March 31…