By DENNIS STANLEY / Publisher & Editor of the Smithville Review Firefighters spray water on the still-smoldering Federal Mogul distribution center Friday morning. School was canceled in DeKalb County Friday because the water system was heavily drained by firefighters working all night long. (Dennis Stanley photo) A fire of undetermined origin raced through the Federal…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) BENNETT Reeling from three student suicides over the past one-and-a-half years, Warren County High School will hold a suicide prevention forum for parents and community members Tuesday night.Designed to help parents become aware of the warning signs of suicide and the programs in…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Warren County paramedics Kenny Moffitt and Shane Lewis scale a cliff during recent training at Fall Creek Falls as they practice cliff rescue techniques. (Photo provided) Putting their skills and equipment to work by pulling a 9-year-old girl from a well on Knight Road last…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard (McMinnville, Tenn.) Kyle Ward clings to a tree in the Barren Fork River while members of the Warren County Rescue Squad approach in a boat. Ward had been kayaking in the river when a fast-moving log smashed into his kayak and knocked him into the water.…

By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG / AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The biggest mistake many small business owners make when it comes to taxes is waiting until March or April to start thinking about them. Taxes should be an ever-present consideration, a factor in most business decisions, and not a once-a-year event. Yet accountants…

By Jim Glenn / Columnist Surveys show that an increasing number of older Americans want to retire from their jobs, but not retire from the workforce. They want to retire from the work they have done for most of their lives for 40 hours a week, but they also want to take up a second,…

By James Clark Charter Communication employees Robby Black, left, and Ronnie Craig are pleased with the company’s new location over the bowling alley. The person who said pedestrians always have the right of way must have never seen what happens when a car collides with a person. That’s my observation for the day.Another thing I’ve…

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas Democrat Ralph Hall’s defection to the Republicans in January was hardly a shock considering he’d voted like one for years. But some analysts predict it may be a while before GOP leaders find another Democratic congressman willing to switch, at least for ideological reasons. Those Democrats who now hold the “most…

By RON FOURNIER / AP Political Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — In John Kerry’s world, President Bush is a job-killing, gay-bashing, special interest pawn. To the president, Kerry is a tax-raising, flip-flopping liberal who is soft on terrorism and hard on the U.S. military. The presumptive Democratic nominee has been airing TV ads for months, bragging…