MEMPHIS (AP) — Tennessee transportation officials say any speed-limit reductions to improve air quality should apply to all vehicles, not just big diesel rigs. Enforcing different limits for cars and trucks would produce safety hazards, they say. “Whatever we’re going to have to do is going to have to be done for all,” said Ed…

By DUNCAN MANSFIELD / Associated Press Writer LENOIR CITY (AP) — The teenage son of a prosecutor killed a sheriff’s deputy and barricaded himself in his home before he was found dead inside Saturday with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot to the head, officials said. Michael Harvey, 16, was found in an upstairs bedroom of his…

The Standard’s online reader poll generated 61 responses over the last week. Here was the question: In an effort to crack down on the production of meth, should state lawmakers require retail stores to limit the amount of sinus and cold medicine they can sell containing the pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient used to make meth?•…

By Ed Kimbrell / Columnist Thirty-seven years ago, amid ruffles and flourishes, public broadcasting was born in America.Ringing rhetoric filled the floors of Congress as the new service was heralded as an intellectual counter-balance to commercial TV. We shall build a shining service of educational and informational programming in the vast wasteland of Babylon, spoke…

By Charles W. Johnson / Columnist JOHNSON I’ve been a movie buff for most of my life. I love them, as do most Americans, and for that matter, the rest of the civilized world. Though I’m sure I’d probably seen several movies before it, the first I remember seeing is the great classic “Gone With…

The Knoxville News Sentinel Efforts to get governments to enact a resolution acknowledging God as part of the nation’s heritage have moved from the local to the state level, and the effort is as misguided in Nashville as it was in Knoxville, where it was turned down twice.The resolution passed the House on March 1…

The Jackson Sun Thanks to fast action on the part of the Bredesen administration, Tennesseans stand a good chance of avoiding another “Rocky Top” gambling scandal when charitable gaming comes back to the state.Gov. Phil Bredesen intercepted a trio of fast-track bills that would have established charitable gambling with few restrictions or safeguards to prevent…

BABY GIRLAnna Brooke Jones, daughter of Travis and Andrea Jones, was born Jan. 13 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces and was 20-1/2 inches in length. Her grandparents are Mark and Paula Prater; Linda Jones and Clifton Jones. BABY GIRLAmber Nichole Davis, daughter of Alyssa and Michael Davis, was born…

A concert of music with a distinct variety of styles will be presented March 19 by the Men’s Glee Club and Wesley Memorial Handbell Choir of Asbury College from Wilmore, Ky. The program will be held at the McMinnville-Warren County Senior Center at noon.The Men’s Glee Club and Handbell Choir are presently on tour through…

By Bruce Williams DEAR BRUCE: I have always been told that I would inherit lots of money from my grandmother. I know that my mom is the beneficiary of several large trust funds. Grandma passed away and left some money to some second cousins that I’ve only met twice in my life. Now I need…