By Rob Nunley / Columnist NUNLEY Each Sunday, your Southern Standard features a column by Chuck Shepherd called “News of the Weird.”If you’re like me, you look forward every Sunday to reading Chuck’s compilations of the wacky events that fortunately haven’t happened to any of us.At least not yet, or not as far as we’re…

By DAVID BOCLAIR / Mid-South Sports Network NASHVILLE — Teammates, coaches and staff members of the Tennessee Titans expressed surprise Thursday at the news that quarterback Steve McNair was arrested early in the morning and charged with Driving Under the Influence (DUI) and possession of a handgun while under the influence.No one was more surprised…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard JONES Crystal Jones, a senior at Warren County High School recently was named as one of 27 students in the state of Tennessee to receive the A.F. Bridges Scholarship award.The TSSAA Board of Control earmarked $27,000 this year toward a scholarship fund to recognize one…

In keeping with the Standard’s award-winning tradition, reporter Will Stewart was recently honored by the Tennessee Education Association with that organization’s School Bell Award for Outstanding Coverage by Individual Reporters.“We want to recognize individuals who present positive images of the great teaching and learning taking place in our public schools,” said TEA president Judy Beasley,…

Josephine (Mama Jo) Powers, 90McMinnville resident and Van Buren County native Josephine (Mama Jo) Powers, 90, died May 21.A homemaker and a member of Northside Baptist Church, she was the daughter of Rector Lester and Violet Hitchcock Haston; and was preceded in death by sons, Don, Howard and Sidney Powers; granddaughter, Lori Powers; a great-grandchild,…

To the Editor: It seems like yesterday that I strapped on my cleats for practice and went off to the soccer field. It wasn’t yesterday but 1988.As I got to the field, I noticed this curly haired man standing on the field already shouting instructions to those who arrived ahead of me. That curly haired…

By Joan Ryan / Columnist UC Berkeley anthropologist John Ogbu didn’t set out to be controversial in his new book, “Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study of Academic Disengagement” (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). But the e-mails and letters keep arriving every day. He files them in a white three-ring binder, as if they…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard BOLES Saying she still lives in fear after having her throat slashed by a man who remains at large, Elisha Boles says she continues having nightmares about the attack which happened Saturday evening.“I can still see his face in my nightmares,” Boles said during an…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 55-person docket was heard Tuesday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Court.Included in court action:• David Collett was bound over to the grand jury on the charge of manufacture of drugs.• Ray Trapp was bound over to the grand jury on the charge…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Having met many goals over her 30-year career, Warren County Middle School principal Donna Trevathan recently announced her retirement, saying her job is best suited for a young and energetic person.“Being a principal is a full-time, never-ending job — more than just the school day.…