By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Scores of worthless checks continue bouncing around the Midstate after a local woman allegedly went on a forgery spree, writing hot checks and forging some checks on her dead father-in-law’s closed account.The suspect, Tammy Lynn Davis, 37, is in jail awaiting hearing on charges of…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Clementine Myers consults with her attorney, Bob Peters, during her trial last week. (Duane Sherrill photo) Facing the possibility of life in prison, Clementine Myers emerged virtually unscathed Friday as jurors found her guilty of a lesser crime which carries a maximum of two years…

By Beth Furbush The next few weeks, I’d like to give you information on identity theft. This is a serious topic everyone needs to be familiar with (if you aren’t already).Identity theft is when someone uses your name, Social Security number, credit card number of some other piece of your personal information to apply for…

By Jim Glenn Every week in one of my favorite online newspapers there is a column with a Web guide to “hot sites” on the Internet. I find it impossible to resist.I visit every site to see if there is truly something interesting or worthwhile. Often there is. But I don’t think I would be…

By James Clark / Business Pulse Editore Before I dig into this week’s Business Pulse — and boy what a good one I have for you today — I have to rehash a portion of last week’s column.Anyone who happened to see that column may recall I made a few predictions for 2004. One of…

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Loretta Hillis, 72McMinnville resident and Warren County native Loretta Hillis, 72, died Jan. 8 at St. Thomas Hospital after an extended illness.A retired cutting department employee of Formfit Rogers and a member of Mt. View Church of Christ, she was the daughter of Herbert and Sarah Bouldin Wilcher; and was preceded in death by brothers,…

By Joan Ryan / Columnist From inside our rented Tahoe condo, the snow drifts against the sliding glass door looked as if a gusty, bitter blob of precipitation had come to its final resting place on our balcony, blotting out every inch of sky. The cable television was out. Most of the ski lifts were…

By Ed Kimbrell / Columnist As the Tennessee lottery prepares for early launch, they’re uncertainties in post-secondary education. One hasn’t received any media attention, and because it’s an insider story, that’s understandable. But it may have serious implications for academic freedom and the ancient methodology followed by community colleges and universities to grade students’ performance.This…

By Mike Vinson / Columnist If I had to choose right now, I would say the two greatest speakers, orators, I’ve ever heard, live or on film, are Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Adolph Hitler.Now before launching off on a tirade that could land you on Mars with the “Rover” mission robots “Spirit” and…