Radio stations 103 WKDF and 104.5 The Zone will host Kidz Fair by White Castle on Saturday, April 3, and Sunday, April 4, at Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium, an event planned to provide two days of family entertainment and activities, and to help Middle Tennessee schools raise funds.“It’s easy for schools to be a part of…

The Nashville Symphony and the St. George’s Episcopal Church choir will present the U.S. premiere of Carl Philip Emmanuel Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” March 28 at 3 p.m. at St. George’s Episcopal Church. The performance will be the second of only two performances of the piece worldwide in more than 50 years. St. George’s Church…

Loudon County Sheriff Tim Guider cries as he details the ambush killing of one of his officers, Jason Scott, Friday morning, March 12, 2004, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo) LENOIR CITY (AP) — A domestic dispute turned deadly when a heavily armed teen shot and killed a sheriff’s deputy and hunkered down inside his family’s…

MT Media Relations MURFREESBORO — Chris Mobley said there is a healthy competition among the Middle Tennessee pitching staff. The competition is starting to make opposing lineups look rather unhealthy, and Mobley was the latest in a long line of Blue Raider hurlers to toss a gem Friday afternoon. Mobley, a junior right-hander from Kingsport,…

By PAUL NEWBERRY / AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) — Just before tipoff, Mississippi State gathered at midcourt, holding aloft the trophy for its first Southeastern Conference championship in 13 years. Then Lawrence Roberts tumbled out of bounds — and the Bulldogs were soon tumbling out of the SEC tournament. Vanderbilt stunned No. 4 Mississippi…

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By SCOTT SONNER / Associated Press Writer BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. (AP) — On a high-desert mountain where prospectors first struck it rich in the 1860s, the world’s largest gold mining company plans a major expansion that critics say could pollute the environment for tens of thousands of years. Newmont Mining Corp.’s proposed $200 million Phoenix…

By BRUCE STANLEY / AP Business Writer LONDON (AP) — Hunger for imported oil in China, scanty global inventories of crude, and political unrest in petroleum-rich Venezuela could combine to drive gasoline prices higher this summer, the International Energy Agency warned Thursday. Oil output from OPEC producers has lagged behind the growth in demand in…

By LARA JAKES JORDAN / Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration is considering requiring warning labels on condom packages noting that the contraceptive devices do not protect users from all sexually transmitted diseases. Most recent studies indicate condoms do not safeguard against human papillomavirus, or HPV, a little-known but widespread sexually transmitted…

By JASON STRAZIUSO / Associated Press Writer LANDSDOWNE, Pa. (AP) — In the back of her two-story brick colonial, in a small patio-sized add-on, Valarie Arms adjusts a valve on her miniature indoor pool and watches a churning current shoot out like a small stream. With mounds of snow sitting just outside her windows, she…