By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard LINKLETTER Radio and TV legend Art Linkletter brought his special brand of gentle humor and wisdom to Warren County Tuesday night as the keynote speaker at Boyd Christian School’s spring benefit.The Emmy-winning TV personality and best-selling author, who is still going strong at 91,…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Deputy Bo Ramsey prepares to take up a position during an armed standoff Wednesday afternoon along the railroad tracks off Shady Rest Road. (Duane Sherrill photo) A burglary suspect held lawmen on a six-hour armed standoff on the railroad tracks off Shady Rest Road Wednesday.The…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard MC GAW Indiana businessman David Keener obtained sole ownership of the DeZurik building earlier this week – a move that has the potential to bring over 100 new jobs to Warren County.Keener had previously owned half of the 186,000-square-foot building but acquired full ownership after buying…

Wapakoneta, Ohio, resident formerly of McMinnville Alta Mae Bates, 97, died April 27 in Wapakoneta.A retired textile worker and a member of the Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late John and Leona Grissom Bates; and was preceded in death by brothers, Haskell Bates and Toy Bates; and sisters, Myrtle Billeray and…

By MARY DALRYMPLE / AP Tax Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Thursday to restore a ban on state and local taxation of the services that connect consumers to the Internet. “We have held steadfast to the proposition that the Internet, this extraordinary and global treasure, shouldn’t be subject to multiple and discriminatory taxes,”…

KNOXVILLE (AP) — Some lawmakers would like to see the old plants in Oak Ridge and other cities that were part of the Manhattan Project to develop the first nuclear bomb incorporated into the national park system. A U.S. Senate committee passed on Wednesday a bill calling for the Interior Department to study whether plants…

CHATTANOOGA (AP) — Gov. Phil Bredesen said he is considering setting up the “safety net” arm of TennCare as a nonprofit organization that can take private donations. The TennCare Foundation is one of a set of reforms Bredesen has proposed for the public funded health care program for the poor, disabled and uninsured. It would…

PIGEON FORGE (AP) — Dollywood has requested that a gay and lesbian group immediately stop advertising “Gay Day at Dollywood” for an event that attracted about 1,000 homosexuals last year. Dollywood is a theme park named after country singer and Tennessee native Dolly Parton. Spokesman Pete Owens said the park was not trying to stop…

By TERESA M. WALKER / Associated Press Writer FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Tennessee Titans kicker Joe Nedney thinks he was on the wrong side of the table Thursday when he spent 75 minutes signing autographs for soldiers and relatives at Fort Campbell. “They should be the ones behind the table, and I should be…

NASHVILLE (AP) — A state appeals court has upheld measures put in place to prevent perennial political candidate John Jay Hooker from filing “repetitive and frivolous” lawsuits. The case stems from numerous lawsuits against various state officials filed by Hooker, a Nashville attorney, that challenged the practice of serving food and alcohol at political fund-raisers.…