Upper Arlington, Ohio resident Sarah L. Gettinger, 92, died Sept. 16 after a brief illness.A retired elementary school teacher and a teller for National City Bank, she was preceded in death by her husband, Duane H. Gettinger.She is survived by daughters and son-in-law, Thetis and Corky Keel of McMinnville, and Darsie Gettinger of Ohio; sons…

McMinnville resident and DeKalb County native Gertie Lee Kirby, 83, died Sept. 21 at her home.A grocery store merchant, she was the daughter of Jessie L. and Ellen Freeman Graham; and was preceded in death by her husband, Chester Kirby; brother, Floyd Graham; and sister, Edna Newman.She is survived by sons, Kenneth and Sephfronia Kirby,…

A memorial service for Dorothy Bernice Stiles Peel, 62, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at McMinnville Funeral Home Chapel with Billy Reed officiating. Visitation will be held from noon until time of service Saturday at McMinnville Funeral Home.A Metairie, La., resident formerly of McMinnville, she died Sept. 7 in Houston, Texas after a…

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — U.S.-Iraqi military operations over the past two months have made it harder for foreign insurgents to enter Iraq or establish safe havens in the Sunni Triangle north and west of Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday. Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch also said that while cities such as Baghdad and Ramadi…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tennessee Valley Authority property in Alabama is one of two potential locations for what could be the first nuclear power plant built in the United States in more than three decades. A consortium of utilities narrowed the potential locations to TVA’s yet unfinished Bellefonte twin reactors near Scottsboro and to a site…

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A high-protein diet can make regular exercise more effective for women trying to lose weight — helping to build muscle while trimming body fat, a small study suggests. In a four-month period, the protein-rich diet along with exercise significantly reduced abdominal fat and triglycerides, risk factors for heart disease, according to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Roberts can begin picking out furniture and measuring for drapes in the chief justice’s office. His nomination cleared a Senate committee on a bipartisan vote of 13-5 Thursday, with next week’s confirmation so certain that Republicans and Democrats turned increasing attention to President Bush and his choice to fill a second…

By FRANK BAJAK / AP Technology Editor HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — We have more ways than ever of communicating, but trying to keep up with family and friends can be exasperating. Our overlapping free time seems to shrink. We constantly play phone and voice mail tag. And e-mail, in its tone-deaf impersonality, barely helps. One…

By ANICK JESDANUN / AP Internet Writer NEW YORK — I’ve always hated Web-based e-mail. I’ve found the interface clunky and the services constraining (I’m an electronic pack rat who’s been chastised multiple times for exceeding storage quotas). Ever since I got my first post-college e-mail account in 1994, I’ve preferred software that sorts and…

By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG / AP Business Writer Claire Ryan doesn’t know yet if she’ll be able to get her small business up and running again in New Orleans, but she’s anxious to get back to the city and try. “Absolutely — New Orleans is my home,” said Ryan, who owns a Drama Kids franchise…