KNOXVILLE (AP) — With two weeks left until No. 3 Tennessee’s season opener, coach Phillip Fulmer is still not ready to name a starting quarterback. Senior Rick Clausen and sophomore Erik Ainge continued their competition Saturday night in the Volunteers’ second major scrimmage of preseason practice. Fulmer also got a look at several different players…

Tom Scott, an employee of Warren County schools and a resident of Warren County, but not of McMinnville, is not the author of the letter to the editor which appeared in the Wednesday, Aug. 17 edition of the Standard.

It was incorrectly reported on Tuesday’s court docket that Marco Martinez entered a plea to the charge of theft. He actually entered a plea to charges of assault and vandalism.

By Chuck Shepherd / Columnist In incidents two weeks apart in July, men in New York City and Trenton, Ohio, arrived for Internet-chat-room-arranged trysts with “teenage girls” (who were, of course, police officers operating stings), even though they apparently could not find baby sitters. Alan Schaefer, 43, was arrested in Greenwich Village while walking down…

Photo provided A police cruiser is used to keep the vehicle driven by Emily Fults from rolling back over after her mini-van crashed and overturned on Durham Street Saturday morning. Fults reportedly suffered a seizure and ran off the road. Neither she nor her 9-year-old daughter were badly injured.

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 46-person docket was heard Thursday by Judge Larry Ross in General Sessions Traffic Court.Included in traffic court action: Jeremy Johnson was ordered to serve 30 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence, pay $50 plus costs and forfeit his driver’s license for two years for…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard With no alibi for his whereabouts at the time of the crime — and the confession of an alleged murderer putting him at the scene — investigators say they are giving serious consideration to the involvement of a second killer in the slaying of 89-year-old…

McMinnville resident and White County native Virginia M. Miller, 99, died Aug. 18 at River Park Hospital after an extended illness.A homemaker and a member of the Church of God, she was the daughter of the late Jim and Lilly Underwood Moore; and was preceded in death by husbands, Wallace Davis and Herbert Miller; children,…

ATLANTA (AP) — Cartoon Network is plenty popular with school-age children. Now they’re coming for the babies. Starting Monday, the Atlanta-based network begins a two-hour morning block of cartoons for preschoolers, even children under a year old. Other children’s networks already make programs for children that young, and Cartoon Network’s new “Tickle U.” block is…