Margo Howard Dear Margo: This is a strange question, but I need an unbiased answer. My boyfriend and I have been dating for two years. (We are 21.) We’re both Christians and had discussed waiting until we were married to sleep together. As it turned out, that didn’t happen. Recently, I thought I was pregnant…

Margo Howard Dear Margo: This is a strange question, but I need an unbiased answer. My boyfriend and I have been dating for two years. (We are 21.) We’re both Christians and had discussed waiting until we were married to sleep together. As it turned out, that didn’t happen. Recently, I thought I was pregnant…

Lorene Duncan Stewart, 71, of McMinnville died Saturday, March 25. Ms. Stewart was born Jan. 30, 1935 in Warren County. She was a retired employee of Wal-Mart and a member of the Locust Street Church of God. She was preceded in death by her parents George Franklin and Bertha Louann Emery Duncan, brothers Oliver, Ira,…

CHICAGO (AP) Leave it to the Dutch to help demonstrate the health benefits of chocolate. A study of older men in The Netherlands, known for its luscious chocolate, indicated those who ate the equivalent of one-third of a chocolate bar every day had lower blood pressure and a reduced risk of death. The researchers say,…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) A 16-year-old Kentucky boy travels twice a week to get dialysis treatment while his father, temporarily out of jail to test if he could donate a kidney, flees to Mexico. The image of fugitive Byron Keith Perkins on ?America’s Most Wanted? and CNN wasn?t unusual, and the drug and firearms convictions he…

Chuck Shepherd Because perhaps hundreds of Japanese Yakuza gangsters are nearing retirement age, the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare has drafted rules for the former gambling, loan shark, and protection workers to qualify for benefits, according to a March dispatch from Tokyo in The Times of London. Since organized crime leaves no employment paper…

COOKEVILLE (AP) Russell Stover Candies has announced another string of layoffs at its 30-year-old Cookeville chocolate factory, which is being turned into a warehouse. The Kansas City-based candy maker notified state and local officials on Friday of plans to eliminate 496 jobs over the next two months. Candy production stopped on Friday as well. The…

Larry Key To the Editor: Our city leaders are truly amazing. They can find money to build swimming pools, redo Main Street and I am sure will find money for traffic cameras but cannot find any money for repaving some of our residential streets that have not been paved in 20 years. As for the…

Dustin R. Hillis To the Editor: Cameras are not the answer to red-light runners. This may sound like a noble idea at face value but there are several flaws to this system. The No. 1 flaw is this system reduces the effectiveness and deterrent of traditional police presence and traffic enforcement. Imagine a drunk driver…

Tad Bartimus My husband dropped the bomb in an e-mail: “I’m the new assistant high-school baseball coach,” he wrote. “I will mow the lawn, power-wash the house and build closet shelves after the season’s over. Until then, let’s discuss this like adults.” “Adults” and “baseball” aren’t often used in the same sentence. Baseball is for…