By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard For the past few years, 16-year-old Josh Scruggs has entertained thoughts of having the kind of car that makes heads turn.While that dream might be unattainable for most, his dream came one step closer to reality this week through local support of the Make a…

DAYTON (AP) — Rhea County commissioners are taking their time with a second attempt at a resolution supporting Tennessee’s ban on homosexual marriage. A fumbled attempt earlier this year led to a vote banning gays altogether — threatening them with arrest for “crimes against nature.” That measure was quickly withdrawn, but not before national attention…

NASHVILLE (AP) — Some Greyhound Bus Lines security guards here say they don’t always turn people caught with drugs over to the police. Security officer Dustin Doyal told the local magistrate, in the trial of a 19-year-old accused of having psychedelic mushrooms at the bus station, that sometimes they just let people go if they…

By MATT GOURAS / Associated Press Writer KNOXVILLE — Soldiers from the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment in east Tennessee never expected to be sent to fight in Iraq. Like other National Guard combat units, they had been kept on the sidelines for 50 years. “We’d heard rumors, but we haven’t been used like this since…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard When the local National Guard unit is activated tomorrow for eventual service in Iraq, Sgt. Jason Perry will leave behind his one-year-old business, Perry’s Paving. (Will Stewart photo) Ask any businessperson and he or she will tell you: The first couple years of any business…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard New Jersey resident Joey Baker was up at 8 a.m. yesterday to cook chicken and make flapjacks for the Bonnaroo crowd. Baker frequently travels with the music group The Dead. (James Clark photo) A new car dealer from South Carolina. A funeral director from North Carolina.…

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Creeping past $40 million for the first time, Warren County Schools’ 2004-2005 budget was reviewed by the Warren County Commission’s Education Committee Thursday night.The committee approved the largest portion of the budget, the General Purpose Fund. Passing the smaller Federal Projects and Central Cafeteria Funds…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard REMBISZEWSKI A local man has confessed to burglarizing at least 15 churches over the past year, telling authorities the houses of worship were easy targets.The defendant, Christopher Paul Rembiszewski, 27, is currently charged with two counts of burglary and two counts of theft. However, the…

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McMinnville resident and Warren County native Raymond Turner (Windy) Bouldin, 78, died June 9 at River Park Hospital after an extended illness.A nursery worker, he was the son of Tim and Laura Turner Bouldin and is survived by his wife, Essie Malone Bouldin; stepson and step-daughter-in-law, Lonnie and Christine Clemons of McMinnville; step-grandchildren, Sherry Todd,…