By Duane Sherrill Warren County Emergency Management Agency director Percy Phifer, right, and TEMA representative Jim Thacker survey the wreckage at a property on the west end of C. Rody Road. Residents on C. Rody and neighboring Beacon Drive experienced extensive damage. For the second April in three years, a tornado cut a path of…

Emergency workers have reported no serious injuries from the Friday afternoon storm that hammered Warren County. Officials with TEMA, the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, are in town today to survey the damage and provide an assessment. For complete details, see Sunday’s edition of the Standard.

Lane Fawcett was watching weather reports and he knew the storm was heading straight for his modular home. So he and his wife hid in a crawl space under their home and they prayed. Their prayers were answered when the storm just barely missed their home and inflicted heavy damage on several houses in their…

A storm ripped through Warren County Friday afternoon and left heavy damage to four homes on Beacon Drive near the airport. There was also significant damaged reported in the Wayside community and in Rock Island, although the area immediately around the airport appears to have suffered the brunt of the damage.

WASHINGTON (AP) ‘ President Bush on Thursday ordered an indefinite halt in U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq after July, embracing the key recommendations of his top war commander. Bush said Gen. David Petraeus will ‘have all the time he needs’ to consider when more American forces could return home. Bush’s decisions virtually guarantee a major…

Members of the Citizens Police Academy got a chance to experience an arrest, at least briefly, during last week’s class. After taking a look through the Warren County Sheriff’s Department, thanks to Sheriff Jackie Matheny, members were given the opportunity to have their mugshots made. Pictured is class member Donnie Carter, who is presumed innocent…

WASHINGTON (AP) ‘ The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly rose for a second straight month in February as a big jump in imports of foreign-made cars offset the first decline in oil imports in a year. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that the trade deficit rose by 5.7 percent in February to $62.3 billion, the highest…

By Duane Sherrill A woman who stole from her grandparents and then tried to cover her crime faces numerous charges, including tampering with evidence, after she was caught in the act of trying to cash their government check. The defendant, Carmella Andrea-Nicole Brown, 27, is charged with tampering with evidence, forgery, theft and illegal possession…

By Duane Sherrill The husband of a woman who shot two horseback riders New Year’s Eve will spend a year behind bars for driving her to the scene. The defendant, Jeff Ooley, 43, was sentenced Wednesday by Circuit Court Judge Bart Stanley after he entered guilty pleas to charges of facilitation of attempted second-degree murder…