(AP) — Soaring gasoline prices are getting a rise out of many U.S. motorists, but by and large they’re not getting in the way of summer vacations, commuting habits or SUV sales. What if gasoline prices, which have risen to $2.55 a gallon, keep climbing? Diana Amaro, of Denver, said that if gas reached $3…

BRITNEY SPEARS (AP Photo) NEW YORK (AP) — Britney Spears was 18 when she lost it. So was Marcia Cross from “Desperate Housewives.” Ozzy Osbourne was 14. His daughter, Kelly, was 16. Gary Coleman? Well, he might still have it. Other than Steve Carrell as “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” celibates are tough to find in Hollywood.…

KNOXVILLE (AP) — All it takes to get Tennessee fans in a frenzy before home football games is the sound of “Rocky Top” and the big T formed by the Pride of the Southland Band. Despite its long tradition and accomplishments, the band’s future is being threatened — like other parts of the university —…

ERWIN (AP) — A man who taped a telephone call in which the Unicoi County schools director threatened to beat up a local newspaper publisher will spend 30 days in jail. Judge Lynn Brown said he sentenced Clifton Wayne Morris, 66, to jail because Morris seemed unrepentant and likely to illegally tape phone conversations again.…

KNOXVILLE (AP) — For Habitat for Humanity, it was the 200,000th house in nearly three decades of up-from-the-bootstraps homebuilding. But for Koffi Kouassi and Tonya Harper and their children, it is home. Jack Kemp, former U.S. housing secretary, handed over the keys to the milestone house on Sunday to Kouassi and Harper after a marathon…