By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The car driven by Francisco Goana crashed into a tree after colliding with another car at the intersection of Jacksboro and Old Shelbyville roads Monday evening. (Duane Sherrill photos) One man was killed and another lucky to be alive after he escaped from his burning…

Smithville resident and Warren County native Mildred Smith Fell Bussell, 82, died March 8 at her home after an extended illness. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home Chapel with Andrew Gay officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. View Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 2 to 9…

By JIM SALTER / Associated Press Writer ST. LOUIS (AP) — Alcohol company Web sites are offering a “cyber playground” for underage youths despite promises from the companies to limit their access, according to a study released Tuesday. The study by the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at Georgetown University estimated that alcohol company…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prewar claims about Iraq have become a politically charged issue this election year, as Democrats question whether the Bush administration misrepresented facts about Iraq’s weapons to make the case for war. CIA Director George Tenet is defending the administration amid the criticism, saying he believes policy-makers are entitled to flexibility in how…

By CAIN BURDEAU / Associated Press Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana does a miserable job of protecting the rights of the poor in court because of a woefully underfunded indigent defense system, according to a new study. The study, released by the National Legal Aid and Defender Association on Tuesday, blasted Louisiana for allowing…

By PAUL RECER / AP Science Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — The deepest-ever view of the universe, a photo by the Hubble Space Telescope that looks back to the edge of the big bang, shows a chaotic scramble of odd galaxies smashing into each other and re-forming in bizarre shapes. The snapshot of the universe, called…

By DOUG GROSS / Associated Press Writer ATLANTA (AP) — A resolution urging city and state governments to display the Ten Commandments passed Georgia’s state Senate on Tuesday, joining a host of other socially conservative measures adopted by the chamber this year. The resolution, sponsored by Sen. Jeff Mullis, R-Chickamauga, calls such displays “an acknowledgment…

By GENARO C. ARMAS / Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Sunshine and warm temperatures aren’t the only lures for retirees. They also want cheaper housing and some elbow room, and that has made places like Colorado, Idaho, Utah and New Mexico increasingly attractive to the over-65 set. Each of those states saw its senior…

By ANTHONY BREZNICAN / AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — If Nicolas Cage lights a cigarette in a movie, Hollywood’s ratings board should respond as if he used a profanity, according to authors of a new study that criticizes glamorous images of smoking in movies rated for children under 17. Nearly 80 percent of…

By JASON STRAZIUSO / Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Teens who make a one-time pledge to remain virgins until marriage catch sexually transmitted diseases about as often as those who don’t pledge abstinence, according to a study of the sex lives of 12,000 adolescents. Those who make a public pledge to delay sex also…