By Dave Ramsey / Columnist Dear Dave,I have a rental property located in another state. The current tenant is two months behind in rent, and says she is having financial problems. I offered to let her out of the lease if she would just move. That was 30 days ago. She will not move out…

By DUNCAN MANSFIELD / Associated Press Writer KNOXVILLE — On bright sunny days, the electric meter sometimes turns backwards at Don Huisingh’s house. That’s because the 27 solar energy panels on his roof are making more electricity than his 3,000-square-foot lakefront home is using. “It is like a new baby,” the University of Tennessee professor…

Jackson resident and McMinnville native Virginia Ruth Neal McReynolds, 75, died at her home Sept. 2.A teacher and pastor’s wife, she graduated McMinnville High School in 1948 and received her bacherlor’s degree in education from Bethel College in 1953. She was a member of the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Jackson, and was also a…

Plainview community resident and White County native Martha Imogene Haston, 94, died Sept. 2 at Raintree Manor after a lingering illness.A homemaker and a member of the Church of Christ, she was the daughter of W.D. and Mary Fowler Dodson; and was preceded in death by her husband, Montgomery Haston in 1936; daughter, Lenora Bost;…

Spencer resident and Van Buren County native Lydia F. Guy, 81, died Sept. 3 at White County Hospital after a one-year illness.A housekeeper and a member of Clark Chapel Church of God, she was the daughter of the late Jesse Eston and Daisy Yates Simmons; and was preceded in death by her husband, John David…

Krum, Texas resident and White County native Hattie Mae Bates, 90, died Sept. 2 at Denton Regional Medical Center in Denton, Texas after an extended illness.A homemaker and a member of the Church of God, she was the daughter of William Sylvester and Ollie Mae Bryant Southard; and was preceded in death by her husband,…

McMinnville resident and Alameda, Calif., native Claudia Evelyn (Lynn) Goff, 61, died Sept. 1 at her home.A devoted traveler and a retired fabric artist, she was a member of the American Quilters Society and was an active participant in Relay for Life.She is survived by her husband, Floyd Goff; sons and daughters-in-law, Charles and Annette…

McMinnville resident and Zebulon, Ga., native Carrie W. Wood, 91, died Sept. 1 at Cookeville Regional Hospital after an extended illness.A homemaker retired from the Agriculture Expanded Nutrition Program and a member of the NAACP, the Home Demonstration Club and Martin Chapel United Methodist Church, she helped organize Pleasant Hill CIC and maintain Bethlehem Cemetery..The…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi hurricane survivors looked around Saturday and wondered just how long it would take to get food, clean water and shelter. And they were more than angry at the federal government and the national news media. Richard Gibbs was disgusted by reports of looting in New Orleans and upset at the…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — President Bush’s top advisers met Saturday with black leaders concerned about the administration’s slow response to blacks suffering from Hurricane Katrina, while the head of the NAACP said it was not time for “finger-pointing.” NAACP President Bruce Gordon said that any recriminations over how the government treated Gulf Coast residents can…