By TODD HERZOG / CEO ROUNDTABLE Jamie, David and Shawn Stinson look at a collection of diamond stones. (Todd Herzog photo) Over 120 combined years of experience and expertise reside in Warren County with the Stinson family — father Moody, and sons Jamie, Shawn, and David — who collectively own and operate Diamond Jewelry Co.…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard Clarence Dean One of the first things that strikes you as you enter BJ’s Quilting and Fabrics is the wonderland of color. There are literally thousands of shades and designs of fabrics in this neatly arranged and maintained shop, located at 1202 Sparta St.…

Green Hill community resident and DeKalb County native Willie Irene Redmon Cantrell, 92, died May 16 at her home after an extended illness.A homemaker, she and her husband moved to Warren County in 1944 where they crop farmed, ran a dairy and grew nursery. She remained on the farm after his death in 1999. She…

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Cable television often boasts that it can deliver esoteric fare suiting nearly any taste. But it could be rendered obsolete by the likes of Bill Eason’s hog cooking class. The North Carolina cook’s program — self-described as an “all-day, whole hog class edited down to 45 minutes on how to find,…

By James Clark McMinnville Post Office employee LaDonna Fann enjoys her time on the job as a mail carrier. The Nashville-area post office district is now offering a unique employment opportunity. (James Clark photo) In recognition of the 340 Warren County seniors who received their diplomas Friday night, I will talk in what I call…

William Ovid (Willo) Collins III, born Nov. 26, 1940, died May 12 of cancer.The son of William Ovid Collins Jr. of Nashville and the late Elizabeth Cornelius Collins, he is survived by daughter Tina Collins of Mobile, Ala., sister Ellen C. Hamilton of Dalzell, S.C., niece Ashley Hamilton, nephews Ian and Adam Hamilton, and companion…

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — Two young boys’ apparent game of hide-and-seek prompted a massive search involving dozens of people, a helicopter, military planes and at least three K-9 units. The unidentified boys — both about 5 years old — were found hiding under a bed in their grandmother’s Darkesville-area home Thursday afternoon, about 90 minutes…

MISSION, Texas (AP) — With at least six classmates pregnant, including the valedictorian with her second child, it was clear to a few girls at Mission High School they more information was needed on safe sex. So the four students at this school along the Mexican border — where the teen pregnancy rate is among…

ATLANTA (AP) — Maybe hot sauce is the cure for cold feet. “Jennifer’s High Tailin’ Hot Sauce,” a nod to the saga of runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks, has sold briskly since its debut Wednesday. “I’m in the hot sauce business and this is the hottest thing I’ve got right now,” said “Pappy” David Ryan, who…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Painful cries echoed from the New Mexico statehouse to congressional offices in Mississippi, Pennsylvania and Connecticut on Friday as Republicans and Democrats, revving up for 2006 re-election bids, absorbed the military base hit list. The proposed shuttering of dozens of installations, while rarely politically fatal, still complicates the campaigns of governors and…