By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard BOWDOIN Warren County has hired a full-time maintenance man after the county commission OK’d County Mayor Kenneth Rogers’ proposal to create the position earlier this year.The job was posted and after the Policy and Personnel Committee interviewed a number of applicants and presented their…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard From left, David Gann, Sherri Zlaten, Nora Hundley and Linda Palmer of Healing Rooms of Warren County pray at the center, located at 322 W. Colville St. Healing Rooms is free and is open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon. (Amy Satterwhite photo) Prayer…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Columbia Flooring president David Wootton, center, accepts the keys to McMinnville Manufacturing Co. from Jim Mullican, left, and Bill Mullican on Wednesday. (Amy Satterwhite photo) The end of an era of family ownership of McMinnville Manufacturing Co. has arrived, as one of the city’s oldest…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard County officials have discovered some businesses within the city limits have been doubling up on the recent 3/4-cent sales tax increase due to a mistake in implementing the sales tax at the corporate level.The businesses have reportedly been charging 10.5 percent rather than the…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard GRISSOM Ten years after claims of sexual harassment were made by a Warren Utility District employee against her boss, a settlement has been reached, awarding the former utility secretary $110,000.The plaintiff, Demetra Parker Gipson, was awarded the settlement recently, ending the case which hung in…

By ANICK JESDANUN / AP Internet Writer NEW YORK (AP) — When Barbara Sloan needs directions to a friend’s house, she doesn’t consult the Rand McNally map sitting in the car. She goes first to the Internet, just as she does when she needs to pay bills, stay on top of diet news or find…

NASHVILLE (AP) — A member of former Gov. Don Sundquist’s administration and a commissioner in the current administration appeared before a federal grand jury investigating state contracts awarded under Sundquist. The grand jury resumed its investigation Wednesday by receiving testimony from Warren Neel, a former commissioner of Finance and Administration under Sundquist, who left office…

By AMBER McDOWELL / Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE (AP) — The consulting firm helping the University of Tennessee find a new president isn’t doing enough to investigate the candidates vying to replace the man who resigned in disgrace last year, a state senator said Wednesday. Sen. Randy McNally, who chairs the chamber’s Education Committee, particularly…

NASHVILLE (AP) — A man has been charged with killing his neighbor’s 2-pound miniature Yorkshire terrier by place-kicking it into the air like a football. Chad Daniel Crawford, 23, was booked on charges of cruelty to animals and felony vandalism. He was freed after posting $25,000 bond. Jelani Lewis and Jessica McKenzie said they were…

By KARIN MILLER / Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE (AP) — The Tennessee House has scheduled a rare vote Thursday on whether to reject a bill creating a racial profiling pilot project among state troopers. The bill failed 50-44 Wednesday. Because it received at least 50 “no” votes, a motion to reject it was allowed. Such…