NASHVILLE, Tenn. Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — Businesses shouldn’t have to pay property tax on their computer software, an administrative law judge ruled. The order came last week from administrative judge Pete Loesch in a case filed by Nashville-based American Healthways…

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — A college student who honked his car horn when he saw police stop their patrol car, turn on blue flashers to go through a red light and then turn the flashers off got a…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — Legislation the Tennessee General Assembly will consider this session ranges from the unconventional — construction of a Jack Daniel’s tourist attraction in downtown Nashville — to the more predictable — expansion of the governor’s…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Thursday he believes the 118th Airlift Wing of the Tennessee National Guard will continue to fly missions after its C-130 cargo planes are reassigned in 2011. Gen. Gus…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — A judge on Thursday upheld the way lawmakers took up a resolution banning gay marriage in Tennessee, rebutting plaintiffs’ claims that the Legislature did not follow the rules in preparing the amendment. The American…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. — TennCare is no longer paying for Valium and some other drugs used to treat anxiety and seizures, a move that some health care professionals question as unsafe. State officials say the drugs — which…

TO THE EDITOR: I was happy to see that the Chattanooga Times Free Press has returned downtown. It is probably the best newspaper in Tennessee. And still costs only 50 cents.I can’t see what the big deal is, but it sounds like the Southern Standard is very unhappy. Since you made this a front-page story,…

TO THE EDITOR: I am writing in response to the proposed school calendars. I am a little concerned about the way the survey was structured. It was divided into three categories, the first one being the 45-10 proposal and the other two were different variations of the traditional calendar.In essence, these two variations of the…

TO THE EDITOR: In the story about letting Warren County residents give their feedback on the size of the county commission, it should have been considered the motion was not properly presented to the commissioners. They did not even have a written copy of the motion, and the commissioners voted to table the motion until…