By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Warren County High School and middle school tennis coach David Dunlap closed out his summer tennis camps Friday.Dunlap, along with 10 members of the high school tennis team, conducted camp this past week at the McMinnville Civic Center tennis courts.Dunlap who is a USPTR instructor,…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The Annual Dr Pepper Tennis Tournament is scheduled to begin Aug. 15.Entry forms are still being accepted and anyone interested in playing needs to contact the McMinnville Civic Center at 473-1212 or David Dunlap at 473-6357.The tournament will have three different divisions, A, B and…

By Bernard Smith / Columnist SMITH My wife’s favorite driver is in trouble again.Tony Stewart, who started from the pole, had a strong car most of the day and was running in third when he mysteriously faded over the final few laps and finished 12th. He pulled his No. 20 Pontiac into the garage, hopped…

By James Clark / Business Pulse With a company in Pennsylvania now manufacturing SUVs equipped with machine guns and grenade launchers, I thought it might be a good idea to add a few extra security devices to my Blazer. (Seth Wright photo illustration) I’ve reached the conclusion that the new road-warrior SUVs equipped with such…

Margaret Elvira Collins, Eddie Steve Miller Margaret Elvira Collins, 76McMinnville resident and Warren County native Margaret Elvira Collins, 76, died Aug. 9 at her home after a four-month illness.A homemaker and a member of the Pentecostal Church, she was the daughter of the late Jack and Bonnie McBride Muncey; and was preceded in death by…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The Pioneer football team returned home late Friday night from what coaches judged a successful week at Camp Tanisi in Westmoreland.After their scrimmage with Lebanon on Wednesday, the Pioneers got back on the practice field Thursday morning and worked out a few kinks in their…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) Warren County Middle School running back Justin Bouldin gets brought down by a pair of Central Middle School defenders during the three-team scrimmage held Friday afternoon at WCMS. (Dale Stubblefield photo) Warren County Middle School’s football players saw their first live competition of…

Twenty-five people were indicted Friday by the Warren County grand jury.Included in court action:• Rhonda Jones and Kevin Magness were indicted on charges of manufacture of meth over 100 grams. Jones is a veteran high school teacher with the Warren County school system. The lab, claimed by her boyfriend Magness, was found in an outbuilding…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Eleven people were sentenced Friday by Circuit Court Judge Charles Haston.Included in court action:• Shane Woodruff was ordered to serve 160 days of a three-year sentence and pay $2,000 plus costs for manufacture of meth.• Bradley Ray Elrod was instructed to serve 120 days of…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard MC CORMICK Murder indictments have been leveled against the man who allegedly strangled a Viola Road car dealer to death this May.The suspect, Jody Lee McCormick, 28, has been indicted on three counts of murder, including felony murder during a theft, felony murder during a…