By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 54-person docket was heard Tuesday in General Sessions Court by Judge Larry Ross.Included in court action:• Stephanie Stone was bound over to the grand jury on the charge of manufacture of drugs.• Robert Paul Munoz was ordered to serve 90 days of an 11-29…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Six local students represented Warren County as members of the prestigious Midstate Band in Murfreesboro this weekend. The band, sponsored annually by the Middle Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association, is composed of the best music students from across Middle Tennessee.“This is the most ever…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Don Rigsby, currently president of the Chamber of Commerce, has accepted the newly formed position of director of economic development for McMinnville and Warren County under the direction of the IDB. (Charles W. Johnson photo) After a long, arduous and challenging process, the Industrial…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Johnny Parrish says Thomas Lance told him he planned to kill his best friend. And he’s irate his former boss testified he wasn’t at work the day he alleges Lance made such a statement, making Parrish look like a liar.“This makes me look like a…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Defense attorney Michael Galligan congratulates his client, Thomas Lance, after he was acquitted Saturday on charges he murdered his friend, Lee Neal. (Duane Sherrill photo) Thomas Lance is a free man for the first time in two and a half years after jurors found him…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard More budget troubles appear to be emerging for state government despite last year’s 1 cent sales tax increase that was expected to net the state more than $900 million.Sen. Jerry Cooper, who has seen many budget battles in the past few years and who co-sponsored…

By MARCIA DUNN and PAM EASTON / Associated Press Writers Debris from the space shuttle Columbia streaks across the sky over Tyler, Texas, Saturday morning. Amateur photographer Dr. Scott Lieberman shot a series of photos showing the break-up of the space shuttle from his backyard in Tyler. (AP photo) Space shuttle Columbia disintegrated 39 miles…

J.C. Couch, 61Woodbury resident and Warren County native J.C. Couch, 61, died Jan. 30 at Centennial Hospital after an extended illness.A retired construction worker and a member of the National Guard, he was the son of the late Alton and Minnie Mae Jones Couch.He is survived by his wife, Betty Ferrell Couch; son and daughter-in-law,…

By Morton Kondracke / Columnist Democrats have been pummeling President Bush so hard, you’d think it was 2004 already. After the State of the Union, they ought to let up a bit on Iraq policy — at least until the administration delivers an intelligence report to the United Nations next week.Bush delivered a forceful argument…

By Ed Kimbrell / Columnist It always began, for both men, with a sheet of blank paper, a drawing board, if available, a pen and black ink. Their deaths within two days of each other show how important Al Hirschfeld and Bill Mauldin were to the nation, as national news organizations gave their passages coverage.Mauldin…