James Clark photo All that’s left is the finishing touches for Pinoy’s, a new Asian take-out restaurant scheduled to open this week. Hershey Glenn is opening the business with Alex Chavez. The phone number is 474-1074.

McMinnville resident and Warren County native Ruby McCormack Orrick, 91, died Nov. 13 at NHC Healthcare after an extended illness. A homemaker and a member of Central Church of Christ, she was the daughter of the late Ike and Rachel Smartt Roberts; and was preceded in death by her first husband, Robert Taylor McCormack; second…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) A security guard shot a 16-year-old student in the foot at a New Orleans high school on Friday. The guard told police she believed the student was reaching for a weapon, but no weapon was found. The shooting at Booker T. Washington High School happened behind the school, under a large tree…

MIAMI, Florida (AP) Police used a stun gun on a 6-year-old boy in his principal’s office because he was wielding a piece of glass and threatening to hurt himself, officials said Thursday. The boy, who was not identified, was shocked with 50,000 volts on Oct. 20 at Kelsey Pharr Elementary School. Principal Maria Mason called…

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) The jury that convicted Scott Peterson saw a man with two faces: in public, a loving father-to-be with a steady job and stable home, and in private a cheating husband who yearned for bachelorhood and was willing to kill for it. Convicted Friday of murdering his pregnant wife and her fetus,…

NEW YORK (AP) It shocked many pundits when ABC’s new series “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost” became the breakout hits of the new television season. But not the folks at Initiative, a top New York media agency, who say they’ve developed a new tool to help predict which shows will succeed or flop. The research device…

Chuck Shepherd The Muscular Dystrophy Association, a Tempe, Ariz., real estate firm, and two charity promoters were sued in September by Keith Schott, a golfer who had apparently legitimately made a fully witnessed hole-in-one during a charity round but who was allegedly turned down for the widely advertised $1 million prize when the sponsors imposed…

WASHINGTON (AP) Vice President Dick Cheney, who has a history of heart trouble, went to a hospital Saturday after experiencing shortness of breath. Tests found no abnormalities, an aide said, and Cheney left after three hours. “I feel fine,” the 63-year-old vice president said as he walked out with his wife, Lynne. Cheney smiled and…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON Some might consider Vietnam an unusual setting for a musical, but that didn’t stop Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Sch?nberg, the creators of “Les Mis?rables” from choosing the war-torn country as the backdrop for their hit show “Miss Saigon.” The show is making its second run in Nashville at the Tennessee Performing…

Our Viewpoint The Warren County Education Association is set to get $196,000 in raises for local teachers this year, but for some reason the organization isn’t happy. Instead of counting its blessings, the WCEA is bickering about how to divide the money. WCEA leadership does not want to place all the money into salaries. The…