By LISA HOBBS Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Warren County?s National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) will be holding two nights full of activities that are dedicated to mental illness awareness beginning this Thursday, Oct. 5. The festivities will end with eight heavy metal and hard rock bands performing at Hoot-N-Holler Farm on Oct.…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Standard Author Howard Bahr will be talking about his work, including ?Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War,? ?A Year in Jubilo,? and ?The Judas Field,? in a program at Magness Library this Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. Magness Library will be presenting a free…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON News Editor for the Southern Standard A painting depicting something dear to Haston?s heart, the University of Tennessee Volunteers. It?s one thing to receive a stamp of approval for your art, but it?s quite another to receive that stamp, quite literally, from the U.S. Postal Service. But that?s exactly what happened…

By JAMES CLARK Editor for the Southern Standard BOYD After two Tennessee Valley Authority rate increases in one year, Warren County residents will get a break when it comes to paying their electric bills. Effective today, TVA has approved a 4.5 percent reduction in its wholesale power rates, which means retail customers of McMinnville Electric…

McMinnville resident Nadene N. Dodson, 68, died Sept. 29 at St. Thomas Hospital in Nashville after an extended illness. A retired GM factory worker and a member of the Church of God, she was the daughter of John and Pearlie Carter Dodson; and was preceded in death by brothers, Ernest, Kenneth and Hellas Dodson; and…

Manchester resident and McMinnville native Mary Alice Harris, 60, died Friday at her home. A retired CNA for Lifecare Center in Tullahoma, she was the daughter of the late Midred MacDowell and was preceded in death by her husband, Robert T. Harris. She is survived by sons, Iria Dee Harris, Charley Shane Harris, Bobby Edward…

Chuck Shepherd In September, following complaints of diners, the health department in Springfield, Mo., notified restaurants that Debby Rose’s “assistance monkey” could not be permitted to dine with her (in a high chair), even though Rose said she suffers from a disabling social phobia that she can accommodate only if “Richard” (a bonnet macaque monkey)…

CAZENOVIA, Wis. (AP) HAINSTOCK A teenager who decided to confront teachers and the principal after complaining other students teased him brought two guns to school and shot the principal to death, authorities said. The shooting Friday also came a day after the principal gave 15-year-old Eric Hainstock a disciplinary warning for having tobacco, according to…

MIAMI (AP) FOLEY In a scandal guaranteed to anger parents, a prominent House Republican has resigned after the revelation that he exchanged raunchy electronic messages with a teenage boy, a former congressional page. Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., who is single, apologized Friday for letting down his family and constituents. His resignation letter was read to…

NASHVILLE (AP) A shoplifting suspect was shot outside a mall Thursday night by an off-duty state trooper working as a department store security officer, police said. Officers said Aussie Thaxter, 41, a six-year veteran of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, shot the 21-year-old suspect in the parking lot at Hickory Hollow Mall off Interstate 24 southeast…