By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard COOK A moonshiner will serve 10 days in jail and attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings after his still was raided last month by deputies.The defendant, Roger Wayne Cook, 58, was directed to serve 10 days of an 11-month, 29-day sentence for manufacture of an alcoholic beverage…

PITTSBURGH Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — The Pittsburgh Steelers sense something special is going on here, the kind of season that is remembered and replayed not only for a few years but for generations. A season in which a team has…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — Tennessee Titans defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch was added Wednesday to the AFC Pro Bowl roster, the team announced. He will replace Miami defensive end Jason Taylor, who will not play because of an…

ORLANDO, Fla. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — When Kansas State needed someone to replace retiring football coach Bill Snyder, the first thing the school decided was who not to exclude. Wildcat consultants were told to watch for promising black coordinators who…

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — Tennessee coach Pat Summitt railed about the Lady Vols’ weaknesses on defense before their embarrassing defeat at second-ranked Duke earlier this week. While they work on those problems, they have two players trying to…

STARKVILLE, Miss. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — With a quick start and some consistent shooting, Tennessee avoided another letdown. C.J. Watson scored 19 points and the 19th-ranked Volunteers followed their weekend upset of Florida by routing Mississippi State 88-65 on Wednesday…

WASHINGTON Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — The number of women-owned businesses, many of them one-person enterprises, grew at twice the national rate for all private companies from 1997 to 2002. About 28 percent of all private companies were owned by women…

WASHINGTON Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — The five-year housing boom is showing increased signs of cooling, and that’s likely to mean slower growth for the entire national economy. The big question now is whether home prices will come crashing to earth…

WASHINGTON Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — The parents had no idea there was a bank account in their 12-year-old daughter’s name. They didn’t find out until after a con artist opened credit card accounts and then declared bankruptcy. The Virginia case…

WASHINGTON Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — A new political action committee to put veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in Congress is getting under way. “There is not one policymaker debating this war who has actually fought this war,”…