Spencer resident and Van Buren County native Maggie Lorene Lewis, 83, died Nov. 26 at Generations in Spencer after a one-year illness. A factory worker and a member of the Church of God, she was the daughter of Jay and Mary Guy Mosley; and was preceded in death by husband, Arthur Lee Lewis; son, Gary…

Spencer resident and Overton County native Jimmy Joe Rogers, 78, died Nov. 27 at his home after an extended illness. A member of Belview Community Church, he was the son of Daniel Polk and Mary Zadie Davis Rogers; and was preceded in death by sisters, Dovie Findley, Katie Snodgrass, Mattie Prater and Margaret Keener; and…

Quebeck resident Charles Edward Barlow, 73, died Nov. 24 at Summit Medical Center in Hermitage. He is survived by his wife, Evelyn Cruise Barlow; son and daughter-in-law, Richard and Dorothy Barlow of Crossville; daughter and son-in-law, Kimberly and Randy Cates of Hermitage; grandchildren, Kayly Brook Cates, Brandy Nicole Cates and Westen Aaron Barlow; step-grandchildren, Lydia,…

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) The busiest shopping day of the year turned out to be a sticky affair. Vandals apparently glued the locks on dozens of Lafayette’s biggest retailers, preventing managers from opening up promptly on lucrative “Black Friday.” Hundreds of shoppers, some of whom arrived before dawn, were forced to wait outside Barnes & Noble,…

VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) A student carrying a machete and another knife slashed five classmates Wednesday morning as they watched a Spanish class video, authorities said. Eight Valparaiso High School students were taken to the hospital, including the accused attacker, a 15-year-old freshman, Police Chief Michael Brickner said. All but one of those injured were released…

Chuck Shepherd In November, former mayor Diana Cortez of La Grulla, Texas, and the town’s former bookkeeper pleaded guilty to taking $53,700 in federal community grant money and spending it all on psychic consultations. In August, the St. Louis (Mo.) Regional Chamber and Growth Association fired psychic David Levin after seven years’ service, during which…

OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) Producers of methamphetamine in Kentucky are circumventing stricter laws regulating the drug’s ingredients by traveling to states with looser laws to purchase the pills they need, police said. The state law passed in 2002 that made possession of more than 24 grams of ephedrine or pseudophedrine illegal was intended to crack down…

NEW YORK (AP) Tom Brokaw leaves this week, Dan Rather in March. But the broadcast network evening news as an institution isn’t going anywhere. The ABC, CBS and NBC nightly newscasts don’t have nearly the influence, or the viewership, they did before viewers could get news instantly on their pagers, telephones or cable TV. It’s…

(AP) Pour the coffee into a thermos, put the mittens on, and line up before dawn with hundreds of fellow bargain-hunters. Those were the marching orders Friday for families around the country at the beginning of the holiday shopping season, with the super-organized arriving armed with cell phones and detailed game plans as they snapped…

Online casino pays $28,000 for sandwich HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — The folks at the GoldenPalace online casino turned over $28,000 for a headline-grabbing grilled cheese sandwich half, with a bite missing. Diana Duyser, the jewelry-designing seller, is convinced she cooked up an image of the Virgin Mary over breakfast 10 years ago. After more than…