By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then a pair of Grundy County men could be in a world of trouble as lawmen say they not only caught the pair in a large marijuana field in July but they also have surveillance pictures to prove…

It’s almost fair time. The Warren County A&L Fair officially begins later this week. For a fair schedule, see Wednesday’s edition.

Centertown Elementary School’s student council held a fund-raiser and collected $1,352 for victims of Hurricane Katrina. The money will be donated to the Red Cross to fund its efforts to provide shelter, food and clothes to evacuees.———On Friday, Sept. 9 Cuttin’ Up Walk-in Salon, located at 719 N. Chancery Street, Suite 4, will be donating…

By JAMES CLARK / Editor for the Southern Standard The Warren County Board of Realtors has been asked to provide a different sort of aid to Hurricane Katrina victims — housing.The request comes from FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is trying to find temporary and long-term housing for some of the estimated 1…

By AMY FOSTER / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Work has just recently started on East Main Street, which is the third phase of the downtown revitalization project. (James Clark photo) APEX construction has obtained close to three months of extensions for the Main Street McMinnville project which was originally scheduled to be complete…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard ROGERS Warren County residents looking for a place to take their unwanted animals may find pretty slim pickings if the county continues its current course.With the Humane Society announcing it will no longer take county animals and County Executive Kenneth Rogers making it clear…

By JOHN GEROME / Associated Press Writer Ronnie Dunn & Kix Brooks NASHVILLE — Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks veered down a “Red Dirt Road” two years ago and never looked back. The duo’s new album, “Hillbilly Deluxe,” is a twangy rock ‘n’ roll record with some soulful ballads and rowdy honky-tonk thrown in —…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died Saturday evening of cancer, ending a 33-year Supreme Court career during which he oversaw the court’s conservative shift, presided over an impeachment trial and helped decide a presidential election. His death creates a rare second vacancy on the nation’s highest court. Rehnquist, 80, was surrounded by…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Like the sturgeon they snare in their nets, caviar fishermen in Mississippi River states are increasingly being targeted because of their productivity. Wildlife regulatory agencies in Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee and Kentucky — the core of the Midwestern caviar industry — are pushing new regulations aimed at limiting the size and…

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — The 101st Airborne and other units stationed at Fort Campbell are preparing for another deployment to Iraq, two years after the division’s yearlong mission in the Persian Gulf. The movement of the 101st and 159th Aviation Brigades and the division’s four combat brigades — more than 20,000 troops — will…