By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) Austin Panter of the 9- and 10-year-old Panthers looks for running room during his team’s game against the Titans in Warren County JFL play Saturday. (Dale Stubblefield photo) Their namesakes in the NFL may have come up short on Sunday, but the Titans…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The Warren County High School golf team turned in another successful performance Monday in the District 7-AAA tournament.The Pioneers earned the right to move on to regional play by placing third, turning in a 346 on the day at the not-so-forgiving Riverwatch Golf Course in…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Lane McCoy hauls in a 34-yard touchdown pass during Warren County Middle School’s 41-8 victory over Coffee County Tuesday night. (Rob Nunley photo) Warren County Middle School’s football team kept its perfect streak alive Tuesday night, scoring a lopsided 41-8 win over Coffee County Middle.The…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 51-person docket was heard Thursday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Traffic Court.Included in traffic court action:• Kevin L. Boyd was ordered to serve 122 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence, pay $1,400 plus costs and forfeit his driver’s license for three years…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) With a massive renovation project taking place at First United Methodist Church on Main Street, local resident Mark Gribble saw it as a perfect photo opportunity. With the help of a 150-foot crane, Gribble got a bird’s eye view of downtown McMinnville. One of…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard While three men are behind bars for allegedly setting a Measels Estates woman on fire Saturday morning, prosecutors admit they are not sure who they actually have in custody.According to District Attorney General Dale Potter, investigators are looking into the identities of two of the…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard PEZZIMENTI The mother of a former Warren County High School football player hit in the head last year by a helmet thrown by head coach Gerald Tidwell is suing him for $20 million in compensatory and punitive damages.Also named in the suit are high school…

Joshua Wayne Dixon, 5 monthsMcMinnville resident and Warren County native Joshua Wayne Dixon, 5 months, died unexpectedly Sept. 14 at River Park Hospital.He was the son of Rickie Wayne and Dorie Ethel Madewell Dixon of McMinnville; and is also survived by sister, Mary Kayle Dixon of McMinnville; paternal grandfather, Houston Dixon of McMinnville; maternal grandparents,…

By William Rusher / Columnist The basic trouble with democracy is that it forces candidates to be forever on the lookout for new “services” they can pledge to provide for their presumably greedy constituents. The dirty little secret, of course (never mentioned during the campaign), is that these services will cost money, which will have…

By Morton Kondracke / Columnist Democrats are already making this into one of the nastiest presidential campaigns ever. It could get much worse if Republicans again play the “patriotism” card.Democratic presidential candidates have accused President Bush of being a “liar,” a “phony” and a “cowboy” who “deceived” the country into war and now is “failing…