By DUANE SHERRILL A Van Buren County deputy is on administrative leave after he was pulled over in his patrol car this week after allegedly having too much to drink at a restaurant in Smyrna, more than a 90-minute drive from his jurisdiction. The deputy, Chad Martin, was charged with DUI by Smyrna police Monday…

By DUANE SHERRILL Billy Joe Griffin is likely a free man after jurors acquitted him Wednesday on second-degree murder charges for the shooting death of Chad Nunley. Instead, Griffin was found guilty on the least possible charge of reckless endangerment with a weapon. Griffin, who had been behind bars for over a year awaiting trial,…

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) ‘ Titans receiver Eric Moulds is familiar with enough of the Bills to predict Buffalo could be in for a solid season. ‘They’ll be an explosive offense, because they have the weapons,’ said Moulds, who spent his first 10 seasons with the Bills before being traded to Houston in April 2006.…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD After holding the lead for most of the season, McMinnville Lanes captured the Gold and Silver summer bowling league title Tuesday afternoon. McMinnville Lanes finished the season with 52.5 points followed by Security Federal with 43, Beacon Federal had 38.5, Cumberland Lumber 36, Warren County Nursery 34, Crouch Motors and Foster and…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD The Warren County High School volleyball team split its pair of road matches this week. On Tuesday the Lady Pioneers fell to Riverdale 25-17, 25-23 and 25-27 in District 7-AAA action. Warren County was at Tullahoma on Monday and defeated the Lady Wildcats 25-20, 25-14, 20-25, 25-17. Brittany Frazier led the team…

By ROB NUNLEY A touchdown pass during the final seconds of play allowed Warren County Middle School’s football team to avoid a shutout Tuesday night, but it wasn’t enough to prevent the Pioneers from starting their season with a loss. Cascade wideout Ryan Adcock scored a pair of touchdowns, running for a second-quarter score on…

BY ROB NUNLEY You’ve got to love this time of year. Sure, the weather’s hotter than Jessica Alba ‘ wearing a down-filled parka, sitting next to a fireplace, eating habanero peppers. But it’s football season! All week long, Pioneer football teams have hit the Nunley Stadium gridiron, from Tuesday’s middle school game to last night’s…

The Second Annual ‘first home game’ Tailgate party will kick off the Pioneer football season beginning at 5:30 tonight. The event, which is sponsored by Bill Myers of Myers Communications and Neil Helton of Helton State Farm will take place in the parking lot of the middle school. Your choice of hamburger, hotdog, or pizza,…

By ROB NUNLEY It all comes down to this. All the weight-room sessions, seven-on-seven games and practices in triple-digit heat have been building toward tonight, when the Pioneer football team kicks off its season against the visiting DeKalb County Tigers. Last year, the Pioneers picked up their first win of the season by blanking the…

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD Most high school athletic events over the past week have been scheduled in the late afternoon due to the intense heat in the area. But that wasn’t the case for the Warren County High School girls soccer team, who traveled to Nashville on Tuesday for their first game of the year. The…