By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard COMBS A West Riverside man will serve 20 years behind bars for child rape in a case where the sexual predator kept journals detailing incidents of child molestation.The defendant, John Anthony Combs, 40, entered a best-interest plea this week before Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard KUHN McMinnville officials voted Tuesday to offer a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the damage of a major city planting project at Angels Bridge.That action came after urban forester Nick Kuhn informed city leaders of the…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard County Commissioner George Smartt stands in a county-owned tract of land that will be bid out to have some marketable timber cut from it with the proceeds going into county coffers. (Charles W. Johnson photo) County coffers may be several thousand dollars richer if…

The Nashville Chamber Orchestra will be in concert April 25 at Warren County High School auditorium, beginning at 2 p.m. The concert, marking the 11th performance by the NCO in McMinnville, will be one of the series of concerts in the 2004 Gibson and NCO Guitar Festival. Co-artistic directors for the festival are NCO Music…

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Laurel Cove community resident and Van Buren County native Robert Glenn Grissom Sr., 76, died April 15 at his home.A longtime bulldozer operator, a farmer, and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran serving in World War II, he was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and was the son of…

Pensacola, Fla., resident and Beverly Shores, Ind., native Clarice Marie Jones, 61, died April 11 at her home from an apparent heart attack.A customer service representative with West Telecommunication and a member of the Church of Christ, she was the daughter of William and Clarice Marie James Sheasley.She is survived by her fianc?, Paul Hensley…

By AMBER McDOWELL / Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE (AP) — Gov. Phil Bredesen announced Thursday he will not extend his reprieve for Philip Workman, meaning a new execution date can be set for the death row inmate. Workman was scheduled to die by lethal injection in September, but Bredesen gave him a reprieve until Thursday…

NASHVILLE (AP) — Vanderbilt University and the University of the South are partnering to allow the sharing of resources and programs in fields such as nursing, education, religion and engineering. The agreement is being announced Friday in Sewanee, home to University of the South. The schools, located about 95 miles apart, also will have access…

By AMBER McDOWELL / Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE (AP) — Mortgage companies would be liable for “unlawful conduct” by affiliated loan originators under a bill approved by the Senate on Thursday to curb predatory lending. The bill would require mortgage originators, which offer and approve loans but then sell them to other companies, to register…