Budget includes teacher raises
By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Standard HALE Commissioner Terry Bell?s surprise move to amend the county budget Monday night with around $600,000 in cuts ruffled some feathers ? particularly those of many of the teachers who attended the meeting. This surprised Bell, who had worked out a method to fund the…
Read MoreFisk in more trouble: Inmate charged with assault while in jail
By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard FISK Already facing a litany of charges for wounding a motorist in a drive-by shooting and smuggling drugs into the jail, Deonray Fisk now faces his third round of charges ? this time for attacking a jail guard. Fisk, 26, is charged with assault for an…
Read MoreDownpour triggers deadly pickup crash
By DUANE SHERRILL Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Highway Patrol Sgt. Jeff Mosley gets the tag number off the truck driven by Sheridan D. Lynch. The Hills Creek resident was killed when his truck rolled on top of him after he hydroplaned off Beersheba Highway during a rainstorm Tuesday morning. A Hills Creek Road…
Read MoreCounty passes budget with no tax increase: Bell spearheads proposal that cuts $600,000
By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Standard BELL County Commissioner Terry Bell, with the support of the majority of his fellow commissioners, effectively took control of the commission meeting Monday night and pulled off what amounted to a small-scale governmental coup, amending and passing a budget that kept the current tax rate…
Read MoreBoyd?s mission leads her to Brazil: Local nurse travels world to help others
By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Standard Local nurse Ann Boyd holds an Amazon village child during one of her trips to Brazil as part of a Baptist Church-sponsored mission. Boyd will be spending the better part of the next year doing mission work in South America. Ann Boyd has a mission,…
Read MoreConfession another discomforting twist to JonBenet story
(AP) KARR Ten years later, it is a blur of morbid fascination and speculation, of gross misjudgments and disturbing suspicions, a torrent of bold type and flashing images that makes it difficult to remember the dark winter stillness in which it all started. It was 5:22 a.m., the morning after Christmas, 1996 ? the moment…
Read MoreAttorney protests by dressing as a woman
Chuck Shepherd A former police official and current aggressive, respected Wellington, New Zealand, litigator, Rob Moodie, 67, said in July that he is tired of the old-boy network of male lawyers and judges, and that henceforth he will show his disdain by dressing in women’s clothes in court. The worse the “corruption” he senses, the…
Read MoreState immigration laws may become unconstitutional
NASHVILLE (AP) Legislatures around the country are passing state laws to get tough on illegal immigration, but legal experts say many of those laws will turn out to be unconstitutional. More than 550 bills relating to illegal immigration were introduced in statehouses this year, and at least 77 were enacted, according to a survey presented…
Read MoreBredesen released after four days in hospital: Temporary illness shows lack of plan if governor incapacitated
NASHVILLE (AP) BREDESEN Gov. Phil Bredesen went home Friday from four days in the hospital, and state government functioned “as usual” while he was ill, his deputy said. The 62-year-old governor was released from Centennial Medical Center, where he has been treated since Monday for a high fever that doctors think may be related to…
Read MoreThank you Standard for putting decency as priority
Letters to the Editor TO THE EDITOR: I had recently written a letter asking the Southern Standard not to print any more lewd pictures and I have seen a change in the presentation. Thank you for putting decency as a priority and thinking of our families. It is great to know that somebody is listening.…
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