By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard POTTER Fines ran steeper than usual for clerks caught in a recent beer buying sting which netted citations against 10 clerks at eight stores.Six clerks entered guilty pleas before Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Court Tuesday to charges of prohibited beer sales to a…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard ROSS A former gubernatorial candidate has been arrested on extortion charges after he allegedly threatened Judge Larry Ross and his wife, Tami Poston Ross, after becoming angry over the outcome of his divorce.The suspect, Grundy County real estate developer Jerral Parris, 62, is charged with…

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By PAULINE JELINEK / Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — A growing number of lawmakers are worrying out loud about the Bush administration’s ironclad deadline for handing over political control to Iraq this summer, with even Republicans questioning who will rule and whether the Iraqis will be up to it. The worst day of post-invasion…

By SHARON THEIMER / Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat John Kerry is setting an ambitious $105 million goal for his effort to unseat President Bush and will soon start a 20-city fund-raising blitz aimed at scooping up at least $15 million by May. If Kerry reaches his target, it would be a fund-raising…

By LIZ SIDOTI / Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters of President Bush and some relatives of those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are defending his new campaign ads, which show the wreckage of the World Trade Center. “These images honor those whose lives were lost,” said Debra Burlingame, whose brother,…

By WILL LESTER / Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — John Kerry and President Bush are starting the general election campaign tied, according to an Associated Press poll, while independent Ralph Nader is drawing enough support to make Democrats squirm. The Republican incumbent had 46 percent support, Democrat Kerry had 45 percent and Nader, the…

McMinnville native Mary Christine Thrower Swain, 80, died Jan. 16 at Stratford Retirement Community in High Point, N.C.The daughter of James and Mary Emeline Thrower, she was the youngest of 12 children. She was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Edward Earl Swain in 2001. The couple, married in Tennessee after a…

Beersheba Springs resident J.B. Hill, 88, died March 2.A mail contractor in the area for over 50 years and a member of the Church of Christ, he was the son of the late Ben J. and Minnie Clendenon Hill; and was preceded in death by daughter, Jane Hill Mason; son-in-law, Stanley Campbell; sisters, Mable Tate,…

Smithville resident and Van Buren County native Linda Fay Shockley Wright, 52, died March 2 at St. Thomas Hospital after a four-month illness.A retired employee of City Drug Store and a volunteer with Families in Crisis, she was the daughter of Joyce Evelyn Gray Shockley of Spencer and the late Creed C. Shockley.She is survived…