NEW YORK (AP) — Americans who requested more time to file their 2004 federal income tax returns have a deadline coming up Aug. 15. That’s when tax forms are due for those who filled out IRS Form 4868, the Application for Automatic Extension of Time, to get four additional months to prepare their returns. The…

NEW YORK (AP) — Small business owners around the country were scrambling in the early days of this month, trying to meet an Aug. 15 deadline to file their 2004 returns. They are the taxpayers who didn’t make the original April 15 due date and filed for extensions but somehow didn’t get their returns together…

NEW YORK (AP) — Investors put aside concerns about rising oil prices Thursday, helping the market to a late day rally focused on generally positive economic news. The major stock indexes gained ground during the final two hours of the trading session, even after the price of oil momentarily crossed $66 a barrel. It finished…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales incentives at auto dealerships sent retail sales up in July despite lackluster demand at department stores and a number of other retail establishments. The Commerce Department reported Thursday that total retail sales rose by 1.8 percent, the best showing in three months, but almost all of that strength came from auto…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — People digging into chicken dinners or munching slices of pizza soon won’t be allowed to light up cigarettes at company-owned KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants. Yum Brands Inc., the parent of both chains, on Thursday announced its decision to snuff out smoking at the KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants it owns…

Woodbury resident and Warren County native Roy Allen Fuston, 77, died Aug. 8 at Alive Hospice of Nashville after a short illness.A merchant in Woodbury and a member of West High Church of Christ, he was the son of the late Barney Allen and Hallie Brady Fuston.He is survived by his wife of 57 years,…

McMinnville resident and Cannon County native Robert L. Wade, 77, died Aug. 9 at Cookeville Regional Hospital after a short illness.Retired from management in Michigan after 30 years of service, a Mason and a member of Short Mountain Church of God, he was the son of Homer Wade and Argie Wade Ford; and was preceded…

NEWBY Wayside community resident Rhonda Jean Newby, 45, died unexpectedly Aug. 9 at River Park Hospital.A homemaker, she attended Cumberland Chapel Free Will Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by grandparents, A.L. and Vallie Cantrell, Robert and Delsel Watts; aunt, Nadell Grissom; and father-in-law, William H. Newby.She is survived by her husband, Wendell Newby;…

McMinnville resident and native Lloyd Edward Floyd, 40, died Aug. 8 at St. Thomas Hospital after a brief illness.An employee of Lake Womack Nursery and a member of the Church of Christ, he was the son of William Herbert and Lucille Jones Floyd.He is survived by sister, Sally Clark of McMinnville; nephew, David Clark of…

McMinnville resident and Lincoln County native Leona Edwards Hayes, 90, died Aug. 11 at NHC Healthcare after an extended illness.A homemaker and a member of Madison Street Baptist Church, she was the daughter of Richard Clark and Cora Virginia Britton Edwards; and was preceded in death by her husband Woodrow Hayes in 1990.She is survived…