By MARGARET HOBBS / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Winners in the recipe contest are, first row from left, Brenda Woodlee, Brennan Lytle, Lauren Lytle and Kimberelene Colagione. At back, Sherry Burnett, Linda Beechum, Tammie Gribble and Tressa Moore. (Margaret Hobbs photos) Looking for savory summer dairy recipes? We offer some delicious and nutritious…

By MARGARET HOBBS / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Emily Scott, from right, Lowe’s employee Hillarie Jones and Katie Blankenship ‘hammer away’ on their bookend project. (Margaret Hobbs photos) How about a different, fun field trip each day for a week? How about learning how a hospital operates or the ins and outs of…

ISA/Worth Bat AttackThe fourth annual ISA/Worth Bat Attack tournament will be held July 16 and 17 at Crossville. The tournament is for men’s Class D and E teams.Entry fee is $170, plus a $25 sanction fee. Teams must provide their own .44 cor/375 comp. ISA stamped and approved softballs, which will be available for purchase…

Last weekend in Cookeville at the Summer Hummer Fast Pitch Girls Softball tournament a local group of girls brought home first place in the 12 and under division.The Warren County Knockouts won the championship by defeating the Tennessee Legends 12-5 due in part to a big 10 run first inning. Teams from several state competed…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Custom Tool and Die rolled past NHC 14-3 Friday night in the 7-8 coach pitch tournament on the Sam Martin Field. Custom scored seven runs in the first, five in the second and two runs in the fourth. NHC’s only three runs came in the…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Head Warren County High School basketball coach Ann Eades and her staff along with the Lady Pioneer basketball team completed their fourth annual Lady Pioneer Basketball Camp on Thursday.65 young ladies from around the county in grades 3-9 went through the four-day camp working on…

JACKSON (AP) — Two Madison County sheriff’s deputies were suspended Friday after a male and female inmate in their custody were determined to have had sex while they were being transported to jail, according to a statement from the sheriff’s department. Deputies Danny J. Wilson, 49, and Richard A. Baxter, 52, were suspended for three…

COLUMBIA (AP) — An embattled residential school for troubled youth began shutting down an outdoor education program this week as part of an agreement with the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services. Magnolia Academy in Culleoka will end its 14-year-old Wilderness Program, which gave 30 children, mostly wards of the state, an experience in outdoor living…

NASHVILLE (AP) — At previous Southern Baptist Conventions, demonstrators stormed stages and tried to crash a meeting hall with a casket they said represented gays hurt by the group’s anti-homosexual teachings. But at the last few annual meetings protests grown more subdued as Southern Baptists, the nation’s second largest Christian faith, have shifted focus from…

KNOXVILLE (AP) — Gov. Phil Bredesen was urged Friday by the Humane Society of the United States to support heavier penalties for cockfighting in Tennessee. The request comes in the wake of a June 11 cockfighting raid in Cocke County in which 144 people were arrested, more than $40,000 in cash seized and some 300…