By LISA HOBBS Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard DAVENPORT After considering 15 of the remaining 62 applicants for the recently vacated McMinnville police chief position, the Safety Committee reduced that number to five at Tuesday night?s meeting. While narrowing down the applicants, the names were withheld ? a policy elected officials try to enforce…

By JAMES CLARK Editor for the Southern Standard With ?Roo? duct taped to their back window, New Hampshire residents Catey Beaudry and Kyle Widness stop in McMinnville yesterday on their way to Bonnaroo. They said they had been driving for 20 hours straight. Some have driven for nearly a day straight just to get here.…

By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard If a new city ordinance is passed, signs won?t be able to exceed more than one-third the total area of store windows. Saying McMinnville sign code enforcement officials will become nothing more than ?sign Nazis? if the city continues its restrictive trend, local sign-maker Steve Davis…

By LISA HOBBS Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Construction is scheduled to start on three McMinnville bridges in the next year and a half. The Beersheba Street Bridge will be the first to get a facelift with construction set to begin Oct. 21, about four months away. Countdown and get ready as the Tennessee…

By LISA HOBBS Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Brentwood?s Bruce Gennari competes in the swim portion of McMinnville?s triathlon last year. Gennari has won the local triathlon all three years. Growing bigger and better every year, McMinnville City Triathlon is on again for its fourth year. The competition is set for Saturday, June 24…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Etta Pauline Madewell, 94, died June 14 at her home after an extended illness. A homemaker and a member of First Church of God, she was the daughter of the late Alex Walter and Lillie Irene Perry Coppinger; and was preceded in death by her husband, John Austin Madewell;…

WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police can use evidence collected with a warrant even if officers fail to knock before rushing into a home. Justice Samuel Alito broke a 4-4 tie in siding with Detroit police, who called out their presence at a man’s door then went inside three to five seconds…

SELMER, Tenn. (AP) WINKLER A minister?s wife accused of shooting her husband to death at the parsonage where they lived pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder Wednesday and told a judge she wants to be released from jail on bond. Mary Winkler has been in custody since March 23 when she and her three young…

Jim Mullen Remember when James Bond out-golfed Goldfinger by one stroke? Bond never practiced, but he played golf like a pro. I play golf twice a week, and I get worse. Bond walks through the Q’s laboratory, picks up the latest gadget and knows how it works instantly — without ever having read the manual.…

James Clark Former McMinnville resident Mary Winkler entered a not-guilty plea Wednesday to the charge of murdering her husband, popular preacher Matthew Winkler. For a woman who police say confessed to the crime, this is a puzzling twist. Even her own lawyers don?t deny Mary Winkler was the one who fired the deadly shot with…