By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Contrary to popular belief, New Year’s Eve and Labor Day are not the worst days for drunk driving deaths. Instead, Super Bowl Sunday ranks at the top of the list as a higher percentage of people are killed by drunk drivers the evening of the…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Ask any educator and he or she will tell you: teaching a child to read is no easy task. And if that child happens to be dyslexic, the task becomes infinitely more difficult.To assist new teachers who may have students with dyslexia or other reading…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard COLLINS A former Eastside Elementary secretary has been sentenced for embezzling over $17,000 from the school.The defendant, Rebecca Collins, was granted a three-year judicial diversion on the charge of theft over $10,000. The diversion will work like probation in that Collins must not get in…

By Jim Glenn / Columnist As the new year begins, it is probably a good time to review some of the annual Social Security and Medicare changes that became effective in January 2004.Most of the changes affect people already getting Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. But a few affect people who work…

By James Clark / Business Pulse As you can see, Business Pulse is squeezed in here kind of tight so I better start with the oddest sight of the week. It took place at the new Mexican restaurant after a large table of customers finished singing “Happy Birthday.”As soon as the song was over, a…