By BRETT MARTEL / AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A disputed foul call with time running out, a spinning last-second shot and now a backcourt steal in the waning moments. Tennessee may not dominate women’s basketball like it used to, but the Lady Vols somehow found their way to an 11th NCAA championship…

By MARY FOSTER / AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tennessee coach Pat Summitt spent a lot of time this week talking about parity in women’s basketball. It made a lot of sense, what with LSU and Minnesota both making the women’s Final Four for the first time. But the championship game features an…

By LISA LEFF / Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When David Knight married his boyfriend of 10 years, his parents were not among the mothers and fathers proudly snapping photos and sipping champagne at San Francisco’s City Hall. His mother is long gone, dead of cancer when he was 17. And his father,…

By MARY DALRYMPLE / AP Tax Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Bill Lazor thought he had a jump on the busy tax filing season when he prepared a tax return in January for a client who had received dividends on stock held in a brokerage account. Lazor, an accountant at Kronick Kalada Berdy & Co. in…

By RON FOURNIER / AP Political Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — No president or presidential candidate ever commanded his own fate, but this year’s White House race may be unusually capricious. The political fortunes of President Bush and Democrat John Kerry are largely out of their control, pinned to unpredictable outcomes in Iraq, the vagaries of…

By LINDSEY TANNER / AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Very young children who watch television face an increased risk of attention deficit problems by school age, a study has found, suggesting that TV might overstimulate and permanently “rewire” the developing brain. For every hour of television watched daily, two groups of children — aged…

KINGSPORT (AP) — Two Kingsport soldiers who recently returned home from Iraq say the media coverage of the war is too narrow, and that there are a lot of good things happening there, too. Lt. Col. Jerry Duncan and Master Sgt. David Douthat, both engineers of the 416th Army Reserve stationed in Atlanta, have spent…

KNOXVILLE (AP) — U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. of Knoxville is among about 20 members of the House favoring a bill that would allow Congress to reverse future U.S. Supreme Court decisions by a two-thirds majority vote of both houses. “I don’t think the Founding Fathers meant for the Supreme Court to become some…

By BILL POOVEY / Associated Press Writer CLEVELAND (AP) — When officers patrolling Interstate 75 in southeast Tennessee stopped a Lincoln Navigator for speeding and tailgating, they had no idea they had hit the jackpot. A search turned up vacuum-sealed plastic bags of cash, about $1.1 million stuffed in compartments, behind door panels and in…

By SCOTT REEVES / Associated Press Writer NASHVILLE (AP) — Kevin Alexandroni is studying to get a business degree at Belmont University, but his future isn’t in corporate finance — it’s in preparing kosher food for weddings. Alexandroni, whose business, Sova Catering, pays his tuition, is part of a growing number of students across the…