By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard The 17-year-old girl who was molested by Mark DiChristina when she was 12 shows a drawing from a journal she kept at the time. The girl said she kept the anguish of the encounters inside her for years before reporting it. A journal kept hidden away…

Green Hill community resident and DeKalb County native Gordon Paton Adcock, 92, died Aug. 22 at Raintree Manor after an extended illness. A nurseryman and a member of the Baptist Church, he was the son of the late Thomas Paton and Roberta Russell Adcock; and was preceded in death by his wife, Thelma Willene Adcock;…

Campaign resident and Smithville native Drue Elizabeth Matheny, 86, was born Dec. 30, 1919 and died Aug. 20 at NHC Healthcare in McMinnville following a short illness. A retired employee of the Carrier Corporation and a member of Fall City Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late John Douglas and Maudie Jane Warren…

Dorothy Jean Wood, 64, of McMinnville died Monday, Aug. 21 at River Park Hospital. Born on Aug. 27, 1941 in White County, she was a retired nurse and affiliated with the Baptist faith. Mrs. Wood was preceded in death by her parents Jess and Pauline Richardson Brock, sisters Norma Jean Yates and Lorell McCormick, and…

Portland resident and Campaign native Alvie Carl Bryant, 84, died Aug. 20. A photographer with Bryant Studios in Franklin, Ky., for 30 years, the owner/operator of Bryant Fireworks, he was a life member of American Legion Post 62 and Am Vet Post 110 in Franklin, Ky. A U.S. Navy veteran of World War II, he…

WASHINGTON (AP) Traffic deaths in the United States reached their highest levels since 1990, the government reported Tuesday, fueled by an increase in motorcycle and pedestrian fatalities. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said 43,443 people were killed on the highways last year, up 1.4 percent from 42,836 in 2004. It was the highest number…

LONDON (AP) Eleven suspects charged in an alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners appeared in court for the first time Tuesday, and the eight men who faced the most serious charges were ordered held until next month as detectives press on with their investigation. The accused were brought into a courtroom in groups, and…

LOS ANGELES (AP) John Mark Karr, wearing an orange jail jumpsuit and handcuffs chained around his waist, waived extradition to Colorado on Tuesday to face murder charges in the slaying of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey. Karr spoke only briefly during a two-minute court hearing to confirm his decision. His blank expression changed only once when he…

JEFFERSON, Ga. (AP) An inmate in chains and leg irons grabbed a deputy?s gun and shot him Monday at Jackson County Courthouse, but was shot and killed by other deputies as he drove away in a police van, authorities said. The deputy was returning four prisoners to jail when one of them attacked him inside…

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) Male alligators can grow to be 13 to 14 feet long and can weigh up to 1,000 pounds. Five-hundred hunters have been picked for a nocturnal adventure in south Georgia that pits humans against powerful, prehistoric reptiles capable of fighting back with viselike jaws, flailing tails and dangerous teeth. The state?s fourth…