By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard An eight-year sentence was handed to a local man this week for his role in a home invasion in Westwood last year.The defendant, Joshua Biles, 24, entered a guilty plea to the charge of aggravated robbery and was sentenced to eight years in the state…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A stabbing during a fight over a child support check last year has landed a local couple in jail for attacking a member of the family.The knife-wielder, Billy Kyle Hickey, was ordered by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley this week to serve one year in…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard COX Warren County seniors who want to experience the challenge of college won’t have to leave the high school next year.Beginning with the 2005-06 school year, Motlow is offering a college-level English course that’s available for seniors on the WCHS campus.Students will receive dual credit for…

Charles W. Johnson photo Rev. Tim Parish and his 2-year-old son Samuel take advantage of a pleasant May afternoon to enjoy an impromptu tailgate party complete with cheese crackers and juice.

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard These post bollards being installed by Apex Construction’s Andrew Brock and Malcolm McBee yesterday may deter vehicular damage to portions of the Court Square park. (Amy Satterwhite photo) Protecting the newly completed construction project on Main Street is proving to be difficult, as city officials…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard Warren County school employee Sonja Walker hands out a list of registered sex offenders residing in Warren County to local resident Jennifer Campbell as part of the information made available during Signs of the Crimes. Around 125 concerned Warren County residents attended the Signs…

By MATT GOURAS / Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE — Lawmakers pushed ahead with the state budget Thursday even though four of their colleagues were arrested in a morning sting operation by federal and state authorities. Gov. Phil Bredesen and legislative leaders decided it was important for state government to march along despite revelations of an…

By TERESA WASSON / Associated Press Writer PARSON NASHVILLE — Sen. John Ford, who has been proclaiming all year amid an escalating ethics scandal “I have violated no law,” left a Memphis courtroom in chains Thursday after being charged with bribery and witness tampering. It marked the fall of an influential lawmaker who belongs to…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard Sen. Ward Crutchfield, D-Chattanooga, center, leaves U.S. District Court with his attorney, Jonathan Farmer, left, on Thursday, May 26, 2005, in Nashville. (AP Photo/John Russell) Four Tennessee lawmakers were arrested yesterday and charged with taking bribes from undercover federal investigators — including a $55,000 payoff allegedly…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — People can now get “sex offender movement alerts” sent to their e-mail, cell phones and other Internet-enabled devices when sex offenders update their addresses with authorities in three states. Houston-based SCAN USA, which already provides information about weather, natural disasters and Amber Alerts, began the sex offender alerts Tuesday in California,…