KNOXVILLE (AP) — Rick Clausen is the quarterback who won’t go away. The Tennessee senior saved the No. 6 Volunteers’ season a year ago when he played in place of the two injured freshmen ahead of him on the depth chart. Then he was passed over again for last week’s starting job against UAB, but…

NASHVILLE (AP) — Concentrating on the Pittsburgh Steelers for a few hours Sunday won’t be that tough for Tennessee quarterback Steve McNair and safety Tank Williams, not after a trip back home to Mississippi to see the damage from Hurricane Katrina. “There’s a time when your comfort zone may be playing the game of football,…

By TERESA M. WALKER / AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE — If any of the Tennessee Titans believe in omens, then Wednesday’s injury report had to be a good sign. A franchise that went 5-11 in 2004 with injured starters missing a league-high 136 games, not counting those lost by backups, issued its first injury report…

By LOU KESTEN / Associated Press Writer Every article about America’s obesity epidemic seems to mention video games. That’s not surprising, considering that video games have been blamed for juvenile delinquency, low SAT scores, teenage promiscuity, high gasoline prices and just about every other problem facing the nation. But being a dedicated gamer doesn’t mean…

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) — Time is running out for world leaders to keep their promises to roll back poverty and millions of people will die needlessly over the next decade without drastic changes, the U.N. warned in a major report Wednesday. The stark findings were presented to the 191 U.N. member nations a week…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Factories were chugging, cash registers were busy and jobs were growing in the late summer — fresh proof that the economy was in fine fettle before Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, spreading death and destruction. The Federal Reserve’s latest snapshot of business conditions around the country, released Wednesday, was taken…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is considering an emergency aid package that would spend well over $1 billion a day during the next month on housing, clothing and other recovery needs for Hurricane Katrina victims. The House as early as Thursday was expected to approve the $51.8 billion spending bill that the Bush administration, under attack…

WASHINGTON (AP) — There are an awful lot of chiefs around the White House these days when it comes to Hurricane Katrina. There’s Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, whose portfolio has swelled to give him not only command of the massive nuts-and-bolts response operation, but also the job of the president’s primary daily briefer and…

By RON FOURNIER / AP Political Writer WASHINGTON — No strangers to bureaucratic bungling and turf wars, the nation’s governors watched in horror as government agencies handled Hurricane Katrina with glaring incompetence — and now worry that the next disaster could deal their states the same ugly fate. The fear is bipartisan. Republican and Democratic…

Woodbury resident and Cannon County native Loreda Daniel Fann, 87, died Sept. 5 at Stones River Hospital after an extended illness.A retired clerk with Colonial Corp. and a member of the Methodist Church, she was the daughter of James B. and Pearl Good Daniel; and was preceded in death by her husband, Willie Howard Fann;…