TBI Director Mark Gwynn, left, walks to the microphones with Police Chief Jim Washam, center, and Danny Wright of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, right, at the Roane County Courthouse Wednesday in Kingston. (AP Photo) COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A fugitive inmate and his wife, wanted in a brazen courthouse escape and shooting in Tennessee, were…

MURFREESBORO — Middle Tennessee Director of Athletics Chris Massaro and Memphis AD R.C. Johnson announced today that Middle Tennessee and the University of Memphis have agreed to play in football beginning in 2007 for the first time in 53 years. The series is set for five games with three in Memphis and two at Floyd…

NEW YORK (AP) — Once Rafael Palmeiro got caught, most every big leaguer became a steroids suspect. Or so it sounded, anyway. Whispers were heard in clubhouses. Rumors floated over the talk-radio airwaves, the Web and in newspapers. Fans wondered out loud. Who would be next? And more to the point: What huge name would…

By DAVE GOLDBERG / AP Football Writer The only surprise in the case of Terrell Owens vs. Andy Reid and the rest of the Philadelphia Eagles is that it came a year later than expected. In other words, T.O. took a year off for good behavior, helped the Eagles get to a Super Bowl and…

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Terrell Owens has some unexpected time off to plot the next twist in his colorful and controversial career. TO has been TKO’d — as in Totally Kicked Out — of training camp. The playmaking, showboating wide receiver was asked to leave Eagles camp Wednesday after a heated exchange with coach Andy…

NASHVILLE (AP) — The Tennessee Titans are making sure they keep all their options open as they search for a new right tackle. They’re rotating two-year veteran Todd Williams, who was homeless as a teenager before leaving Florida State as a seventh-round draft pick, and second-round choice Michael Roos, who emigrated from Estonia to the…

NASHVILLE (AP) — It seemed like old times Wednesday at Tennessee training camp when Eddie George, the Titans’ all-time leading rusher, hugged Steve McNair. But George wore flip-flops instead of cleats, and he was watching practice to prepare for a gig this preseason helping broadcast the team’s exhibitions on TV throughout the state of Tennessee…

NASHVILLE (AP) — Tennessee general manager Floyd Reese spent up to four hours talking by telephone with the agent for the Titans’ top pick, Adam “Pacman” Jones, on Wednesday, and they will meet in person Thursday for more negotiations. Agent Michael Huyghue will be flying into Nashville on Thursday morning for two days, and Reese…

By DUANE SHERRILL / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard Pamela Rogers is shown as she is led from court Thursday. (James Clark photo) After hearing prosecutors describe how she had sex with a 13-year-boy in the very house where his parents were sleeping, former Centertown teacher Pamela Rogers entered guilty pleas for her two-month…

Pamela Rogers appears in court with her attorney, Peter Strianse, right, Thursday. Rogers, a former Centertown physical education teacher indicted for sex acts with a 13-year-old boy who attended her school, was sentenced to jail for nine months in a plea deal that prohibits her from getting any financial benefit from the case. (Duane Sherrill…