By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The 6-ton roller which killed Jerry Bennett is pictured at left. Bennett fell from the machine and was trapped beneath its rear roller. (James Clark photo) A veteran county highway department employee was killed Thursday morning when he was run over by the 6-ton asphalt…

Carl Edward Cummings, Bobby Wayne Cagle, Della Ruth Southern Carl Edward Cummings, 72Rock Island resident and Warren County native Carl Edward Cummings, 72, died July 17 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville after an extended illness.A retired mechanic and a member of the Church of Christ, he served his country in the U.S. Army Air…

By Chris Matthews / Columnist President Bush says that things aren’t “black and white” in corporate accounting.That assessment may be defensible in accounting terms. In political terms, it’s dead wrong.The politics of this “corporate cronyism” is as black and white as you can get. A few people won by dumping their stock before the big…

By George Plagenz / Columnist If your prayers aren’t being answered, maybe you should turn the job over to someone else. Perhaps an organization like Silent Unity.Will their prayers work better than yours? They might. They have been in the business of praying for others since 1891.The founders of the Unity School of Christianity were…

By James Clark / Columnist I was in Warren County Administrative Offices the other day and thought about getting a drink of water.Fortunately, before I acted foolishly – and at great expense to the taxpayers – I reconsidered.If I would have gotten that drink of water, it likely would have run up the county’s water…

Our Viewpoint As parents, there are few stories more terrifying than that of Samantha Runnion, the 5-year-old California girl who was abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered earlier this week.Details of the crime are horrifying. The act itself seems unimaginable, yet child abductions are now occurring with disturbing regularity in this country. Runnion was the third…

TO THE EDITOR: This letter is in response to the article that appeared in the Sunday, July 14 edition of the Southern Standard. The article was in Editorial Our Viewpoint and was titled “Candidates who won’t talk, don’t deserve a vote.”First off let me say I have no political or journalistic ambitions. I am writing…

By Joan Ryan / Columnist In “The Godfather: Part II,” Michael Corleone softly delivers the poignant and ominous lines that seal his brother’s fate. “I knew it was you, Fredo,” Michael tells him. “You broke my heart. You broke my heart.”Then he has Fredo killed.Fredo had committed the unforgivable offense, the injury that can never…

By Red Green / Columnist Whenever you see a married couple telling a story to a third party, there is a drastic shift in the relationship and dynamic between them. The person who’s telling the story, in most cases the wife, becomes the Prosecutor, while the person who the story’s about, in all cases the…

By Duane Sherrill / Columnist Is any election really cut and dry? Do polls tell the tale or are they simply a calculated guess on how an election will turn out?It’s no secret we have two local political races which are going to come down to the wire. Even Las Vegas book makers would have…