By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Jeremiah Ginn drops his head into his hands upon hearing he is guilty of second-degree murder. (Duane Sherrill photo) Jailhouse phone calls caught on tape, a staged crime scene, and allegations he intentionally “finished the job” when he stabbed his longtime friend 19 times were…

TO THE EDITOR: I have a few family members in the United States forces. However, none of them are deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom.I have heard a lot about the protesters and what I’ve heard, their reactions to this war are about to make me sick. I am shocked that we, the people of the…

By Jim Mullen / Columnist I like CDs. They’re convenient and they’re indestructible. Well, almost indestructible. Unless you have, oh, say, a dark green car like I do. Then they’re very destructible. On a sunny day I can fire pottery in the back seat of that thing. I’m thinking of renting it out as a…

By George Plagenz / Columnist In 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt did the unexpected and turned to the country’s clergy for advice on how to rescue the country from its recession doldrums.“Because of the grave responsibilities of my office,” Roosevelt wrote in a “Letter to the Nation’s Clergy,”…

By Will Stewart / Columist If many conservatives I’ve heard are to be believed, those of us who oppose the current war in Iraq are an unpatriotic, un-American (whatever that means) group of traitors who secretly wish for an Iraqi victory. This is an implication I resent and one that is wholly without merit or…

Our Viewpoint When it comes to restoration work involving historic downtown statue Hebe, local volunteers should be applauded on two fronts.For starters, they should be recognized for their efforts to repair the statue. And secondly, they need to be commended for getting this work done without the use of tax dollars.Such an effort brings the…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Boyd Christian School’s baseball team’s scheduled road trip for Tuesday got a lot shorter, but it wasn’t enough to bring the Broncos success as they were swept in a doubleheader against Gordonsville.The Broncos tried to mount a comeback before falling 7-5 in Game 1, then…

By Rob Nunley / Columnist “The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.”— James Earl Jones (as Terence Mann), “Field of Dreams.”———God is in his heaven,…

Warren County Middle School picked up a big win over a neighboring rival Monday, downing Coffee County Middle by a 9-4 score.The Pioneers plated three runs with two out in the first to take an early lead. Derrin Rogers reached first after being hit by a pitch, and was moved around on a Todd Dunn…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The Warren County Middle School softball team traveled to Cookeville Tuesday to take on Avery Trace. After seven innings of play the Lady Pioneers came up one run short, falling 2-1.Both teams had trouble at the plate. WCMS sent four batters to the plate in…