By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard City crews remove the downtown gazebo from its perch on Court Square. While plans were to move it to a city lot on East Main Street once called The Hole, city officials are reconsidering that idea. (Amy Satterwhite photo) The area once known to locals…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Boyd Christian senior Leslee Beck adjusts her cap before she gets in line for commencement ceremonies Tuesday. (Duane Sherrill photo) The Fab Five reached an end Tuesday evening as commencement ceremonies saw the parting of ways for the five-member senior class at Boyd Christian School.“It’s…

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Casey Morris, a regular at Gilley Pool, prepares to speed down the big water slide in this file photo taken before the pool closed last summer. Get your swimming trunks out and your sunscreen on. Gilley Pool will be open tomorrow morning for its third…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard His testimony saved three innocent men from prison five years ago, but now Ryan Malone faces a prison sentence himself for allegedly robbing Mapco Express Market Wednesday morning.Malone, 24, is charged with aggravated robbery for a pre-dawn, knife-point robbery of the Beersheba Street convenience store.…

NEW YORK (AP) — In May 2004, no one had heard of Wisteria Lane, now TV’s go-to address for sexy suburban angst, and “Desperate Housewives” was just a pair of words. And during a single week that May, Steven Culp both died (on “Star Trek: Enterprise”) and was left for dead (on “JAG”). Now Culp…

In this undated photo provided by Lucasfilm ltd., actor Hayden Christensen plays troubled young Jedi Anakin Skywalker in “Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith.” (AP Photo/Lucasfilm Ltd.) SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — The father turned evil. The son didn’t. Was Anakin Skywalker the proverbial bad seed, or did he just have a tougher…

ATLANTA (AP) — Educators must focus on warning signs as early as elementary school if they hope to reduce glaring high school dropout rates throughout the South, researchers said Thursday at a conference tackling the issue. The behavior, attendance and grades of students in fourth grade, or even younger, often are strong indicators of whether…

WASHINGTON (AP) — When a presidential commission asked taxpayers for their thoughts about tax laws, they got a stream of replies that could be summed up by one from Harry Brown of Port Huron, Mich. “There has got to be a better way than this,” Brown wrote. The hundreds of public comments submitted to the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wind energy advocates on Thursday criticized Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee for proposing legislation that would limit access to a federal tax credit that has bolstered the wind industry for years. The effect could be devastating for the renewable energy, supporters said. “This is the most direct assault on wind power that…

NASHVILLE (AP) — Investigators determined that 56 students at Springfield High School received too much help on the Gateway exam from a teacher and must retake part of the test. Students will be given another chance to take the Biology I exam, which is needed to graduate, since they are not accused of cheating. Veteran…