By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Members of the Youth Dance team are, front row, from left, Meagan Walters and Haley Griffin. Second row, Destiny Jordan, Sara Bryant, Victoria Eschenbacher and Mary Talbott. Back row, Kali Curtis, Shelby Wanamaker, Emily Womack and Morgan Fults. Two local dance groups have reason to celebrate…

By ROB NUNLEY Sports Editor for the Southern Standard Walker Nursery?s Gage Lance slides into second base with a steal ahead of the tag from Cherokee Manufacturing?s Patrick Harvey during action Monday night at Edley Newman Field. Cherokee is off to a strong start, after defeating Rotary Club, First National Bank and Sundrop over the…

NASHVILLE (AP) MCNAIR Steve McNair has won more games for the Tennessee Titans than any quarterback in the franchise?s history. He led them to the playoffs in four of five seasons and was named the NFL?s co-MVP in 2003. But his future with the Titans is up in the air, as the team and the…

Columbia knocked out the WCHS baseball team out of Region 4-AAA action with a 4-2 win. Zach Pelham, John Cooper, Trevor Martin and Matt Bryant had hits for the (16-15) Pioneers in the loss at Columbia.(May 16, 2001)

James Clark photo Bobby Allen, owner of Sue?s Newtown Qwik Pic, shows how an expanded Highway 70 will cut into his parking lot and force him to move his gas pumps.

By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard A repeat drug trafficker will spend 18 years in federal prison after he was caught dealing drugs while awaiting trial on an earlier drug arrest. The defendant, local resident Daniel Dennis, 24, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga for one count of possession with…

By JAMES CLARK Editor for the Southern Standard JOHNSON Pamela Rogers has earned a kind of fame very few convicted sex offenders have ever achieved ? her own action figure. The one-of-a-kind figure is currently selling on eBay and had received 28,099 hits as of last night. Loveand, Colo., resident David Johnson, 36, created the…

By JAMES CLARK Editor for the Southern Standard Billy?s Restaurant has served its last Gator Burger. A sign outside Forrest Park Package Store indicates that business is ?closed forever.? After over a decade of talk, actual construction work is scheduled to take place in late summer for what will eventually be a four-lane from McMinnville…

Duane Sherrill photo Bike races were held downtown Sunday in 12 different categories as part of the 15th annual Highland Rim Cycling Classic. This year?s total purse was $15,000 for the two-day event.

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Standard STANLEY River Park Hospital?s motion for a new trial in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Jewel Wayne Barkes was denied in a decision filed by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley yesterday. Stanley?s decision means the $7.2 million in damages a jury…