By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Warren County High School’s boys bowling team was handed its first loss Monday at Garden City Bowl, as visiting Spring Hill swept both the Pioneers and Lady Pioneers by lopsided margins.Spring Hill’s boys took 22 of the 27 total points available in the match, while…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Monday night Auburntown traveled to Boyd Christian for two barn-burners in elementary basketball action. Boyd split their two games, with the Lady Broncos falling to the Lady Knights 32-31 and the Broncos slipping past Auburntown 28-27.In the first game the Lady Broncos jumped out to…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard After a close first half, Warren County Middle School’s Alex Adams took command in the third quarter Monday, and lifted her team to a 37-25 win over Dibrell in fifth- and sixth-grade basketball action.Adams finished with 17 points on the night, with 13 of those…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Warren County Middle School’s sixth-grade boys battled back from a halftime deficit Monday night to top Dibrell’s Wildcats 37-30 at Dibrell.The Pioneers held a brief lead at one point in the second quarter, but went into the halftime break down 16-14 before battling back to…

By Dale Stubblefield / Columnist STUBBLEFIELD Over the past 15 or 20 years, the game of college football has grown to a financial gold mine for most universities. And now with all the money that is made by teams going to a BCS bowl game, it has become a little more important to secure yourself…

Gary Steele Karate Studio students did their part recently to fight the battle against childhood cancer.A group of students kicked up a storm, as they hosted a “Kick-a-thon” to raise money for St. Jude Children’s hospital in Memphis.Students raised money by performing consecutive kicks, with donators pledging increasing amounts of money for higher number of…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Lady Pioneer volleyball players, from left, Candace Stubblefield, Amanda Goad and Kendra Savage earned All-District honors for their performance this season. (Dale Stubblefield photo) The Warren County Lady Pioneer volleyball team may have finished in last place in the district this year, but three upperclassmen…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard With arson costing billions of dollars each year and the threat of terrorism always lurking, the Tennessee Bomb and Arson unit has its work cut out for its 20 members who have already worked 383 suspicious fire scenes across the state this year.Formerly known as…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard STEAKLEY Warren County, get ready to join in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life, an overnight event designed to raise money and increase awareness of the second leading cause of death in the United States. An organizational meeting will be held at Westwood…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Deputies raided an alleged meth lab last week, seizing over 10 grams of finished product from an outbuilding off West Green Hill Road.The resident of the home, Donnie Shields, 33, is charged with possession and manufacture of meth. Lawmen say Shields admitted he was a…