James Clark photo Brad Cantrell, a member of the 278th, returned to Camp Shelby, Mississippi on Tuesday and was at Nunley Stadium Friday night to see his son, Nick, play his final regular season game. Catrell drove back to Camp Shelby immediately following the game. According to soldiers, the preliminary report is National Guard soldiers…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A teen-age girl faces aggravated assault charges after she intentionally hit a woman with a car on Old Morrison Road following a street fight just after sundown Friday in West Riverside.The victim, Sue Ellen Whitmore, remained at Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga at press time…

Mt. Leo resident and Warren County native William Hall Nelms, 85, died Oct. 28 at River Park Hospital after a one-week illness.A pharmacist and a member of Shiloh Methodist Church, he served his country in the U.S. Army as a Tech Sergeant during World War II.The son of the late John Wesley and Hallie Pearl…

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said Friday that the newspaper was far too slow in correcting its reports indicating Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but the blame did not lie entirely with Judith Miller, the author of many of the stories. “It was an institutional failure,” he…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff is learning one Washington lesson the hard way: Don’t do battle with people who run covert operations for a living. The bad blood between the White House and CIA has been known for some time. But the 22-page indictment Friday of I. Lewis “Scooter”…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney’s former top aide is outlining a possible criminal defense that is a time-honored tradition in Washington scandals: A busy official immersed in important duties cannot reasonably be expected to remember details of long-ago conversations. Friday’s indictment of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby involves allegations that as…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush gets to keep trusted strategist Karl Rove at his side for now, but the dark cloud that has hung over his White House seems likely to stay there for some time. Rove remains under investigation. And unresolved issues on the administration’s use of prewar intelligence on Iraq are sure to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA leak case underscores a basic truth about Washington scandals: It’s not who did what to whom, it’s the cover-up. Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief aide, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, resigned Friday after a grand jury indicted him on charges of obstructing its investigation and lying about a weeks-long effort in…

KNOXVILLE (AP) — University of Tennessee President John Petersen, on the job for just over a year, outlined a new strategic plan on Friday for the five-campus institution to bolster academic and research programs. The plan comes with an initial request for $142 million in new state dollars next year for targeted spending on research,…

MEMPHIS (AP) — Even though an earthquake fault runs through much of the central United States, money for the region has long been tight for geological research and disaster planning, officials say. “It’s like any other long-term threat, like global warming. We discount the threat when it’s long term,” said Arthur Lerner-Lam, director of the…