By Duane Sherrill Slatton, who left office in 2006 after deciding not to seek an eighth term in office, was one vote shy of being convicted on several of the theft charges, according to several jurors from her first trial in November. Jurors who spoke to the Southern Standard flatly accused one of their fellow…

NEW YORK (AP) ‘ “You get the best of both worlds,” Miley Cyrus sings in the theme song of her hugely popular Disney Channel show, “Hannah Montana.” It’s a reference to her character’s secret double life as both a rock star AND a normal schoolgirl. Offscreen, though, this 15-year-old phenom is starting to learn how…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Willard Jackson Holland Sr., 89, was born May 1, 1918 and died April 27 at Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga following a brief illness. A retired employee of Rockford Textile, a United States Army veteran of WWII and a member of Mt. Leo Church of Christ, he was the…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Thomas Don Foster, 82, was born Nov. 13, 1925 and died April 28 at River Park Hospital following an extended illness. A retired school teacher with the Warren County School System and a member of the Church of Christ, he was the son of the late Arthur Roscoe and…

Rosia Lee Ward, 75, of McMinnville, formerly of Sparta, passed from this life, Sunday, April 27 at River Park Hospital after an extended illness. She was a factory worker and a member of the Baptist faith. She is preceded in death by her parents, William and Evelyn Carter Gilreath; two sisters, Beatrice Grisby and Themla…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Maggie Louise Keel, 82, died April 29 at her home after an extended illness. A homemaker and a member of the Church of Christ, she was the daughter of Alfred and Willie Jennings Boyd; and was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Edward Keel in 1990; and brother,…

By SUSAN NEWBY A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to the gas pumps last week. While McMinnville’s generally been good in terms of competitive gas prices, everywhere I turned the price of regular gas was $3.49. With gas prices rising, sometimes two or three times a week, I’ve started filling Mustang Sally’s tank each…

By JAMES CLARK Gasoline prices are soaring and they’re crippling family budgets. When that happens ‘ when people are faced with some sort of adversity ‘ you can count on one thing. They will cry for government help. Our current gas crisis is the perfect example. Now that prices have reached a level most people…

By Duane Sherrill After slugging it out in 48 states plus the territories (Florida and Michigan don’t count this year) and having over 30 million people cast their ballots, it appears the race for the Democratic presidential nomination will end up in a tie unless something magical happens before convention time this summer. At last…