The Community Playhouse production of the Agatha Christie mystery, “Spider’s Web,” will open tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the South Jackson Civic Center in Tullahoma. A free reception will be offered immediately following the performance to allow the audience to meet the cast and crew.Additional production dates are slated for Feb. 21, 27, and 28…

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Ida Mae Melton Underwood, 86Warren County native Ida Mae Melton Underwood, 86, died Feb. 17 in Columbia after an extended illness.A homemaker and member of Cornerstone Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late George Ernest and Audie Eskel Saddler Melton. She was preceded in death by her husband, William Marcus Underwood.She is survived…

By ROBERT TANNER / AP National Writer While parts of the country remain financially vulnerable, a new report says states are seeing an overall turn for the better, with troubling shortfalls shrinking to a tenth of the size of last year’s budget gaps. In total, the states finished the second quarter of the 2003-04 fiscal…

By DAVID CRARY / AP National Writer San Francisco’s defiant choice to perform same-sex marriages by the hundreds is reverberating nationwide as gay-rights groups celebrate, their adversaries hope for a backlash and politicians wrestle with how to respond. Mayors in Chicago, Salt Lake City and upstate New York spoke favorably of the weddings, but many…

NASHVILLE (AP) — State Sen. Mae Beavers was recovering Wednesday from a mastectomy and surgery to remove cancerous lymph nodes, her colleagues were told. Beavers, R-Mt. Juliet, will undergo chemotherapy and radiation therapy because more lymph nodes had to be removed than expected, Rep. Donna Rowland, R-Murfreesboro, told the Senate. But she said it’s a…

NASHVILLE (AP) — Three Lawrenceburg men are charged with stealing tires and shooting a deputy after they ran a roadblock in Summertown before dawn Wednesday, authorities said. Deputy Jason Runnels of the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department suffered a facial wound and was in stable condition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “He’s resting in a room…

JACKSBORO (AP) — Authorities believe they have made the biggest drug bust in Campbell County’s history, rounding up about 50 people and issuing indictments for roughly another 100. The Wednesday crackdown filled the Campbell County Jail as more than 200 indictments were issued by a grand jury for 144 suspects following a yearlong investigation. “We’ve…

OAK RIDGE (AP) — A cooling pump problem forced officials to shut down the High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Jim Roberto, ORNL’s associate director for physical sciences, said one of the pumps automatically shut down on Monday because of “unexpected behavior.” It required workers to shut nuclear operations down until they…

NASHVILLE (AP) — Legislation that would have allowed more children in a day care class died quietly in a House subcommittee on Wednesday. The bill sponsored by Rep. John Litz, D-Morristown, would have reset teacher-to-child ratios implemented last July for 4-year-olds, 5-year-olds and school-age children. The bill would have allowed 15 4-year-olds per teacher, rather…