McMinnville resident and Warren County native Pauline Youngblood, 95, died April 9 at her home.A homemaker and a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and McMinnville First Baptist Church, she was the daughter of the late U.S. and Ella Byars Knight; and was preceded in death by her husband, Eldridge Youngblood; and brothers,…

McMinnville resident and Neshoba County, Ms., native Hurman Lamar Barrett, 58, died April 7 at his home after a brief illness.A retired lineman with Hamlet Construction Company and a member of Jesus Name Pentecostal Church, he was the son of Luna Mae Barrett of McMinnville and the late Thurman Barrett.He is survived by his wife,…

Spencer resident and Van Buren County native Ellen Willene Kell, 82, died April 9 at Raintree Manor after an extended illness.A homemaker and a member of Spencer Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late Arcie and Bette Hennessee Scott; and was preceded in death by her husband, G.L. Kell in 1996; brother,…

Manchester resident and Akron, Ohio native Ella Isbell Wells, 78, died April 10 at United Regional Nursing Center.A homemaker, she was the daughter of the late Roy and Beulah Cross Wells; and was preceded in death by sister, Mary Katherine Crimm; and brother, Roy Norton Wells.She is survived by sister and brother-in-law, Georgia Mae and…

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Elizabeth Smartt Roberts, 83, died April 9 at her home after a seven-month illness.A homemaker and a member of Oakland Church of Christ, she was the daughter of John and Hallie Jane Greene Smartt; and was preceded in death by her husband, James Walter Roberts in 1997; and son,…

Viola resident and Warren County native Catherine Locke Talley, 94, died April 8 at Longshore Wedgewood Nursing Center in Nashville.A retired educator with the Warren County School System, she was a member of Viola United Methodist Church, the Women’s Improvement Club, the Women’s Society of Christian Service and the Retired Teacher’s Association.The daughter of the…

McMinnville resident and White County native Anna Pauline Perry, 95, died April 9 at her home after an extended illness.A homemaker and a member of Central Church of Christ, she was the daughter of Seth and Elzada Clouse Hudgens; and was preceded in death by her husband, H. Loftis Perry in 1988.She is survived by…

By Morton Kondracke Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is blaming President Bush too much for “sending American jobs overseas,” but nowhere near enough for risking U.S. technological leadership by underfunding basic scientific research.Only about 100,000 of the 1.8 million jobs lost during the Bush presidency went overseas, but experts say that millions of jobs — in…

By Ed Kimbrell The Los Angeles Times is the Lazarus of elite American newspapers. In 1999, a paper that had risen from a Republican rag to an elite newspaper saw its publisher, Mark Willes, broker a deal with the opening of the then-new Staples Center that destroyed the wall between an independent newsroom and the…

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