By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Crime may be growing in urban areas, but here in Warren County local jail inmates are proving that, if you put your back into it, you can make something else grow — a garden. One that will eventually provide fresh vegetables for the kitchen…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A father making methamphetamine in the same house where his young daughter lived will spend a year behind bars.The defendant, James E. Boyd entered guilty pleas Wednesday before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to charges of manufacture of methamphetamine and child abuse. He will be…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Along with the obvious health problems associated with the use of methamphetamine, members of the National Guard Counter Drug Division say users may unknowingly be ingesting other people’s urine when they take the drug.“We’ve come across what are called urine labs which extracts the meth…

Joe Lincoln (Bougie) Boyd, 63McMinnville resident and Warren County native Joe Lincoln (Bougie) Boyd, 63, died unexpectedly April 15 at River Park Hospital.A boilerman for 36 years at Burroughs-Ross-Colville, he was the son of Darris and Evelyn Mae Coppinger Boyd, and was preceded in death by daughter, Patricia Boyd Gunter; brothers, Clifton, Corbett, James and…

By Joan Ryan / Columnist There is nothing more stirringly symbolic of a new political era than the statue of a conquered leader toppling from its pedestal. Even those of us who oppose the war in Iraq couldn’t help but rejoice with the Iraqi men who looped wire and rope around Saddam Hussein’s statue in…

By Morton Kondracke / Columnist A “perfect storm” continues to batter the U.S. health care system, and there’s a danger that the Bush administration’s favored barrier against it — medical malpractice reform — will never get built.The National Coalition on Health Care, the broad-based group that first used the storm image to describe the combination…

By Duane Sherrill / Columnist Yet another company is sending our jobs south of the border, looking to make big profits for themselves while their loyal workers are left out in the cold.The announcement that the new employees of a local industry will be speaking a language other than English is only the latest assault…

Our Viewpoint It won’t be news to anyone that methamphetamine is on its way to becoming the principal drug scourge of America. This insidious substance brooks no class distinctions, affecting everyone from the homeless to the upper echelons of society. The ease of manufacture, the profitability and the extremely addictive nature of this drug combine…

Six hundred years ago, a rich and defiant English merchant named Richard Hunne sued church authorities until, exasperated, they had him jailed in London’s Lollard’s Tower, where wires were driven up his nostrils to his brain until he died in a pool of blood, becoming one of the British Protestant Reformation’s most famous martyrs.The night…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard RADOS With the war in Iraq grabbing most headlines, it’s easy to forget about the continuing war against terror in central Asia. Warren County native Karen Rados recently returned from that front after serving a six-month tour of duty in the nation of Uzbekistan.Rados, 33,…