By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard WCHS head coach Ryan Smith, foreground, looks on as Chris Weitzel defends Greenbrier’s Kurt Caton (5) during the second half of Monday night’s game in Gallatin. (Rob Nunley photo) GALLATIN – A third-quarter run by the Greenbrier Bobcats put the Pioneer basketball team in a…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ? The Tennessee Titans got three injured players back on the practice field Tuesday, including leading receiver Erron Kinney. Kinney, a tight end, has been out the past two games after undergoing arthroscopic right knee…

By ROB NUNLEY / Sports Editor for the Southern Standard The Lady Pioneer basketball team ended a four-game losing streak Monday, downing Greenbrier at the Sumner Sports Medicine Christmas Classic. Warren County’s Amanda Locke drives to the basket against Lauren Stubblefield. (Rob Nunley photo) GALLATIN – The Lady Pioneers ended a four-game losing streak Monday…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Twenty-four people were sentenced recently by Judge Bart Stanley in Circuit Court Criminal Division.Included in circuit sentencings: R.D. Martin was ordered to serve four years for evading arrest with risk to a third party and leaving the scene of an accident. Dana Goney, Joel Blanton…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Pump N’ Pay Market was ripped off for the second time in a month Sunday night when over $1,500 disappeared without a trace from the office of the New Smithville Highway convenience market.The money, said to be in excess of $1,500 in cash and checks,…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard McMinnville investigator Derwin Adcock displays a counterfeit $100 bill and warns area merchants to be careful. With money changing hands constantly during the Christmas holidays, police say counterfeiters are using the yuletide season to put their fake money into circulation.“It’s just a good idea to…

By LISA CHAPMAN / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Collene Crumbley has spent 40 years helping the residents at McMinnville Housing Authority. Today is her last day on the job before she officially retires as resident supervisor. (Lisa Chapman photo) After 40 years at McMinnville Housing Authority, Collene Crumbley has retired and her last…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON / News Editor for the Southern Standard Warren County commissioners made it clear they prefer things just as they are Monday night by voting down two resolutions which would have introduced dramatic changes to the county’s governing body.The first resolution, presented by Commissioner George Smartt, would have created A and B…

By LISA CHAPMAN / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Residents along Oriole Drive are overwhelmed with thousands of blackbirds every evening which roost from around 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. (Lisa Chapman photo) Straight out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie, some local residents are being invaded every evening by birds. Around 4:30 p.m. the…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A drunk driving illegal alien who slammed head-on into another vehicle last year will spend three years in the penitentiary before being deported back to Mexico.The defendant, Raul G. Lara, was ordered by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley to serve three years, pay $1,000 plus…