McMinnville resident and Warren County native Faye Morgan Wallace, 68, died Sept. 27 at NHC Healthcare after an extended illness.A office manager with King’s Department Store and a member of Central Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late Aulton Tallman and Julia Catherine Fugitt Morgan.She is survived by daughters and sons-in-law, Janet…

McMinnville resident Emma Bell Cantrell, 64, died Sept. 24 at her home after an extended illness.A retired shirt factory employee and a member of New Bildad Primitive Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late Richard Redmon and Lora Fleming Maggart Redmon; and was preceded in death by brothers, Howard and J.T. Redmon and…

NASHVILLE (AP) — A former lawyer charged with murder in his wife’s disappearance is contradicting the sworn testimony of an investigator that he offered to plead guilty in exchange for a light prison term. Perry March said in separate jailhouse interviews Monday with The Tennessean and WTVF-TV that he didn’t offer a guilty plea, as…

NASHVILLE (AP) — Hurricane Katrina may sidetrack federal funds that local transit officials were expecting for the Music City Star, the commuter rail system to connect Nashville to surrounding counties. The funds, a total of $6.2 million, may be on the chopping block now that Congress must bear the cost of clean up and reconstruction…

NASHVILLE (AP) — Some of Nashville’s most notable registered voters were among the 84 percent not casting ballots in the Sept. 13 city sales tax referendum. Gov. Phil Bredesen, U.S. Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn. and U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn. did not vote in the referendum to decide if the sales tax should be hiked…

By MATT GOURAS / Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE — A white Tennessee lawmaker lamenting his exclusion from the state’s Black Legislative Caucus claimed Tuesday the group was less accommodating that even the Ku Klux Klan. “My understanding is that the KKK doesn’t even ban members by race,” said Rep. Stacey Campfield, adding that the KKK…

By Morton Kondracke / Columnist Conceivably there will be two Republican presidential candidates in 2008 who’ll make a top priority of one of America’s biggest long-term domestic issues: health care.One, obviously, is Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (Tenn.), a heart surgeon who’s an expert on everything from infectious diseases to health care information technology.The other,…

By William Rusher / Columnist Right now, the media are full of stories reporting the downfall of George W. Bush. His performance, or non-performance, in response to Hurricane Katrina is said to have robbed him permanently of his reputation for decisiveness. Social Security reform — the centerpiece of his second-term agenda — was dead on…

By Duane Sherrill / Columnist It’s easy to extend a helping hand to people who are trying to pull themselves up by their bootstraps as Americans have always been rescuers, wanting to help those who want to help themselves.There’s just something about hard-working individuals who dedicate themselves to carrying their own weight that makes us,…

Our Viewpoint The Standard office was bombarded by phone calls all day Monday. Residents throughout Warren County wanted to know what happened to Shoney’s.Was the restaurant closed for remodeling? Are there plans to reopen it? Was Shoney’s really doing so badly it had to close?While this newspaper doesn’t have all the answers, what we do…