By LINDSEY TANNER / AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Well-meaning organ donors who want to give a portion of a liver or a kidney to a desperately ill relative sometimes aren’t told of all the risks such a gesture can mean. Under the worst circumstances, there can be serious infections, long work absences, the…

By SETH SUTEL / AP Business Writer AL FRANKEN NEW YORK (AP) — Comedian Al Franken is baiting conservatives again, and this time he’s bringing a bunch of friends to back him up. Franken will be the lead personality on Air America Radio, a startup venture promising a liberal alternative to powerhouse radio talk show…

By TED BRIDIS / AP Technology Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Setting aside their rivalries to fight unwanted e-mail choking cyberspace, leading Internet companies announced Wednesday they have sued hundreds of people suspected of sending unsolicited junk messages known as spam. The legal actions by Microsoft Corp., America Online Inc., Earthlink Inc. and Yahoo! Inc., represent…

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — These are lonely days for encyclopedias. At libraries, the volumes sit ignored for days on end as information-seeking patrons tap busily away at nearby computers. Even in the warmth of a loving home, that set of hard-bound books that once represented the crown tool of a good education gets the…

KNOXVILLE (AP) — The University of Tennessee has received a $500,000 federal grant to help spread the word about the importance of nutrition and exercise in maintaining good health. The national campaign is called “America on the Move. ” In Tennessee, the program will be directed by Michael Zemel, a UT professor of nutrition and…

By KARIN MILLER / Associated Press Writer Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, center, watches as Betsy Child, Commissioner of TDEC, left, signs along with Gerald Nicely, Commissioner of TDOT, an agreement to protect the environment around road construction projects. (AP Photo) NASHVILLE (AP) — Gov. Phil Bredesen joined his transportation and environment commissioners Wednesday to sign…

By TOM SHARP / Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE (AP) — All net proceeds from a charity gaming event must go to the charity under changes to a bill approved Wednesday by the House Finance Committee. The bill authorizing charity gaming originally did not require that any specific amount or percentage of the take go to…

NASHVILLE (AP) — Bud Adams, owner of the NFL’s Tennessee Titans, has made a $10 million offer for the land currently being considered for a Triple-A baseball stadium. Adams made his offer in a letter Tuesday if a deal falls through to build a downtown stadium for the Nashville Sounds on the site of an…

JOHNSON CITY (AP) — Want to work in NASCAR someday without getting behind the wheel of a car or lifting a wrench? East Tennessee State University and Bristol Motor Speedway now have a program to help. ETSU President Paul Stanton unveiled a new motorsports operations program Wednesday in partnership with the speedway, which will be…

By STEVE WILSTEIN / AP Sports Columnist They ganged up on baseball union boss Donald Fehr in Congress, and he didn’t flinch. Republican and Democratic senators, the nation’s anti-doping chief, the baseball and football commissioners, even the NFL’s union leader were arrayed against him at a hearing on steroids in sports. Even pale and weak…