TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Brodie Croyle appears to be back and says he’s feeling fine after his first game in almost a year. The Alabama quarterback suffered a season-ending knee injury in the third game last season, and the Alabama offense sputtered after that. Croyle threw for 210 yards and a touchdown, and Tim Castille…

KNOXVILLE (AP) — The Tennessee Volunteers looked far from the third-best team in the country Saturday. The third-ranked Volunteers struggled with UAB all game and weren’t assured of a victory until Darrell Hackney’s fourth-down pass sailed over the head of Blazers receiver Lance Rhodes in the end zone with less than four minutes left. Tennessee…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Pioneer linebacker Evan Moran bursts through the middle to deliver a punishing hit on Lincoln County’s Jeremy Ramsey. The Pioneers lost in overtime, 20-13. (Dale Stubblefield photos) FAYETTEVILLE — When the fans’ roars had finally died out and the stadium had nearly emptied following Warren…

Duane Sherrill photo Firemen wade into the thick smoke from the Saturday morning fire which consumed the home at 123 Old Post Road. The stubborn blaze became a three-alarm fire with backup units called to help from Centertown and North Warren fire departments. No one was injured and the owner was not in the house…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard JOSHUA JACOBS An eight-count indictment was returned Friday against the man accused of raping and killing his 89-year-old neighbor near Centertown in July.The suspect, Joshua Jacobs, 20, was indicted on four counts of felony murder, and one count each of aggravated burglary, aggravated rape, attempted…

By Chuck Shepherd / Columnist In July 2004, as News of the Weird mentioned, a federal appeals court ruled the leak-safety standards for the long-awaited nuclear waste depository at Nevada’s Yucca Mountain were too weak, in that the Environmental Protection Agency would regard the facility as safe for only 10,000 years (almost five times the…

The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) is set to have its inaugural Heel to Heal Walk on Saturday, Sept. 10 at Edwin Warner Park in Nashville.Registration will begin at 9 a.m. and the walk begins at 10 a.m. Participants will include walkers, patients, their families and friends, physicians and healthcare providers, corporate teams…

Charles W. Johnson photo Brother and sister Andrea and Seth Biggs are shown with some of the prize-winning rabbits they brought to the American Rabbit Breeders Show at the Civic Center yesterday. Seth’s rabbit took first in his division, Junior Broken Buck. Broken indicates broken color, or spotted, not injured.

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A 40-person docket was heard Thursday in General Sessions Traffic Court by Judge Larry Ross.Included in court action: Johnny Parrish was ordered to serve 150 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence for fourth-offense driving on a revoked license and joyriding. Danas D. Bouldin was instructed…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The adult members of the spray-paint-wielding trio of teens known as the Blue Vandals were indicted on multiple vandalism counts Friday.Indicted were Norman Cox, 18, on 11 counts of vandalism and Chris Haycox, 18, on eight counts of vandalism. The younger member of their group,…