FRANKLIN, Tenn. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — A developer has sued the city of Franklin, claiming Mayor Tom Miller improperly voted on a project involving his real estate company. The developer of a shopping center in the suit claims Miller failed…

NASHVILLE — A new Tennessee law will enlist the power of shame to discourage drunken driving — even though law enforcement, the governor and various experts are calling it an expensive bad idea. Starting Jan. 1, convicted drunken drivers will be required to do 24 hours of roadside cleanup while wearing orange vests emblazoned with…

TO THE EDITOR: This is an open letter to the party or parties who went onto a piece of property sitting next to a small river in a rural housing area and cut down tress that did not belong to them. You did not have the owner’s permission to cut down those trees or any…

To The Editor: I’m glad to hear the construction of a new Warren County Animal Control facility is moving forward.I was also pleased that Rutherford County’s animal control is being used as an example of how a facility should be run. I have adopted/ rescued dogs from there for three years. The new building is…

By George Plagenz / Columnist Should ministers have regular office hours like everybody else — a certain period of time each day when anyone could pick up the phone and be certain of catching the clergy at the church?Or when people could walk in off the street and know they would find a minister to…

By Donald Lambro / Columnist The White House is working on President Bush’s 2006 legislative agenda, even though most of his major recommendations will be last year’s leftovers.That’s because a divided Congress, marked by post-election bickering at its worst, couldn’t agree on some of Bush’s most ambitious proposals: Social Security and immigration reform, making his…

Morrison resident and Geneva, Fla., native Lewis Alexander Flint, 78, died Dec. 26 in Daytona Beach, Fla.The son of the late Howard and Edith McClelland Flint, he was a self-employed roofer and attended the Church of Christ. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Bonnie Flint; brothers, Mac and…

Warren County resident and native Jewell Randel Whiteaker, 61, died Friday at River Park Hospital after an extended illness.A self-employed mechanic and a member of Bybee Branch Church of Christ, he was the son of Jewell Whiteaker and Minnie Moffitt Whiteaker of McMinnville.He is survived by his wife, Mickey Roberts Whiteaker, daughters and sons-in-law Kelly…

Accomplished jazz musician and pianist John Logan (Dr. Jazz) Chapman died Dec. 29 at Centennial Medical Center after a short illness.A Dixieland Jazz musician and organist and music minister for the Catholic Church for 32 years, he was a member of the St. Louis Jazz Club and Salvatorian Order and was a journalist for the…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A local woman faces TennCare fraud charges after she allegedly used the Magness Library computer to make fraudulent drug prescriptions.The suspect, Melody Richards, was bound over to the grand jury this week on several felony counts of TennCare fraud and forgery for her alleged passing…