By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Warren County citizens have watched in horror, along with the rest of the country, as a series of devastating hurricanes have pounded our coastal states, causing tremendous damage and resulting in the loss of human life. Many have expressed their concern and desire to help, and…

By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 94-person docket was heard Thursday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Traffic Court. Included in traffic court action: • Jeremy W. Campbell was ordered to serve 45 days of an 11-29 sentence, pay $650 plus costs and perform 50 hours public service work for…

Amy Satterwhite photo The North Warren Fire Department has received more than $45,000 in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The grants require a 10 percent match. Department members are, front row, from left, Raymond Roberts and Jonathan Womack. Back row, Donnie Scott, Matt Welcome, Jason…

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Ruby Lee Starr (Moore), age 69, died at her home in Fallston, Maryland on Saturday, September 11 after a long battle against Pancreatic cancer. She was born May 20, 1935, in McMinnville, TN to Charles Colville and Maude Ella Moore. Ms. Starr graduated from Central High School in 1953 and attended Samford University (formerly Howard…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native John Ocie Stiles, 94, died unexpectedly Sept. 18 at his home. A retired employee of Brown Root Construction and a member of the Church of Christ, American Legion Post 173 and VFW Post 5064, he was the son of H.B. and Maggie Ellen Thomison Stiles; and was preceded in…

McMinnville resident and Franklin County native Col. Gerry Z. (Hoot) Gipson, 68, died unexpectedly Sept. 16 at Southern Tennessee Medical Center. Retired from the military and a businessman, he was a member of the Church of Christ and VFW Post 5064. The son of the late Felix R. and Aleita Marie Bennett Gipson, he was…

Quebeck resident and Warren County native Alvin Gray McCormick, 76, died unexpectedly Sept. 15 at White County Community Hospital in Sparta. Retired from the civil service and space program where he helped put the first man on the moon, he served his country in the U.S. Navy from 1946-50. The son of Melvina Delaney McCormick…

WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) Remnants of Hurricane Ivan made a violent mark across the Southeast and the Appalachians, where several people were killed by falling trees and floods that washed away scores of roads. Search teams were sent to scour damaged areas for stranded residents. Ivan and its remnants had been blamed for 44 deaths in…

Chuck Shepherd Business prospects are improving for Christopher Lindhoist and Arshad Chowdhury, who recently opened their Metronaps lounge on the 24th floor of New York City’s Empire State Building and whose clients pay $14 to relieve stress by dozing off for 20 minutes in private, specially made, reclining chair-pods with an array of vibrations and…