Church-related home schools do not have to meet the same requirements as independent home schools. The regulations specified in an article published Friday in the Standard pertained to independent home schools only. The newspaper apologizes for any confusion this may have created.

By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Doug Myers is shown days before his arrest in 1999 for murdering three people. Over four years after his conviction for murdering three people ? including two children ? Doug Myers continues to maintain his innocence from his prison cell. ?I can tell the public Dale…

By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard MELTON The list of McMinnville Police Chief successors has been paired down to 15, with the finalists consisting of applicants from across the country ? with one as far away as Alaska. ?We have been trying to narrow the field for city administrator so once that?s…

By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The parents of a 5-month-old toddler could face up to 25 years in prison after their infant son suffered a broken arm under mysterious circumstances in the family home. The defendants, mother Tashia King and father Shannon Atnip, are charged with aggravated child neglect and aggravated…

By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Lewis Lamon first visited the cave in 1951, five years before it was called Cumberland Caverns. He?s been involved with the cave ever since. Celebrating a half century of thrilling tourists from around the globe, Saturday saw many local residents, some who live almost at the…

Kenneth Dodd, left, and Dakota Bennett show off their impressive catch of fish Saturday. Reannine McKnight wasn?t sure what to expect when she attended yesterday?s Free Fishing Frenzy in Morrison. She ended up catching the grand prize, an impressive 8-pound, 6-ounce catfish. The Free Fishing Frenzy was an overwhelming success as the fish were biting…

Sarah Alma Holder, 84, of McMinnville (Bratcher?s Crossroad community) died Friday, June 9 at Raintree Manor Nursing Center. Born Jan. 8, 1922 in Warren County, she was retired from ARA Food Service, a member of the Methodist Church, and attended Bates Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Holder was preceded in death by parents Vernon and…

DETROIT (AP) A 16-year-old girl who tricked her parents into getting her a passport and then flew to the Mideast to be with a man she met on MySpace.com has returned to Michigan. U.S. officials in Jordan persuaded Katherine R. Lester to turn around and go home before she reached the West Bank. Lester arrived…

Chuck Shepherd In a May dispatch from Atlanta on Southerners’ notoriously unnutritious, fat-laden cuisine, a Chicago Tribune reporter watered readers’ mouths with descriptions of the “hamdog” and the “Luther” (prized dishes of Mulligan’s restaurant in Decatur, Ga.), which are, respectively, “a half-pound of hamburger meat wrapped around a hot dog, which is deep-fried and served…

EL PASO, Texas (AP) The governor of Texas wants to turn all the world into a virtual posse. Rick Perry has announced a $5 million plan to install hundreds of night-vision cameras on private land along the Mexican border and put the live video on the Internet so anyone with a computer who spots illegal…