Twenty people were sentenced this week by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley.Included in court action: Eric Conaster was ordered to serve nine years and pay $2,000 plus costs for manufacture of meth over 100 grams. Ricardo Martinez was ordered to serve 240 days of an eight-year sentence, pay $1,100 plus costs and forfeit his driver’s…

A 52-person docket was heard Tuesday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Court.Included in court action: Ricky Fox was ordered to serve 20 days of a six-month sentence and attend anger management for domestic assault. Catherine Rogers was given a six-month probationary sentence and must pay $50 plus costs, attend conflict management, and was…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Crime was down during 2004, making it the quietest year of the current decade in McMinnville.A total of 1,400 offenses were reported to city police during 2004, a mark down by 101 from last year. Contributing to the drop in crime was a reduction, almost…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard PRYOR Tempers flared and accusations flew at the first joint meeting of the county’s Animal Control Board, Budget and Finance Committee, and Health and Welfare Committee to discuss the fate of Humane Society animal shelter funding. Emotions ran high as both sides argued their…

By INGRID CANTERBURY / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard ZADEH Warren County Schools are exactly where they are expected to be according to the latest report card released by the Tennessee School Board.The Tennessee Value Added Assessment System (TVAAS) scores are a supplement to the state school report card released in November. They reflect…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Current siren The city of McMinnville is planning to be better prepared for severe weather and may be as early as this spring after city officials voted to purchase an entirely new warning system Tuesday.Primarily to be used for weather emergencies, the new system is…

McMinnville resident and Palmer native Odell Layman Childress, 73, died Jan. 10 at River Park Hospital after an extended illness.The retired owner of Childress Auto Salvage, she was the daughter of the late Warner and Annie Layne Layman; and was preceded in death by her husband, William A. Childress in 1992; son, Jodi Childress; and…

McMinnville resident and White County native Joe Earl Cannon, 74, died Jan. 12 at River Park Hospital after an extended illness.A retired employee of Magnetek and a member of the Church of Christ, he was the son of Chat Cannon of McMinnville and the late Ann Breedlove Cannon; and was preceded in death by brothers,…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Janie Mai Wilson, 93, died Jan. 11 at River Park Hospital.A homemaker and a member of Central Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late Isham Jackson and Mary Hester Madewell Perry; and was preceded in death by her husband, Sterling Brown Wilson in 1978; son, Colonel…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Irene Butcher, 91, died Jan. 11 at NHC Healthcare.A homemaker and a member of the Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late George and Parrott Turner Dodson, and was preceded in death by her husband, Howard Foster Butcher in 1984; and brother, Thurman Dodson; and sister,…